341: The Call Is Coming from Inside the House

GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

GYMTERNET NEWS

• The latest on...bum-bum-bum...decertification
  • Mary Bono was submitted by THE USOC
  • Is decertification inevitable...or not?
• THE DOCUMENTS
  • We're being asked to believe some pretty ridiculous things right now...
  • ...so we performed a play about what might maybe have happened
  • Save your applause until the end
• Rules Clarifications. At worlds, the FIG held a forum to clarify rules and it was eventful. We CODE NERD OUT about:
  • The messy chalk crackdown
  • "No face painting. This is sport, not theater"
  • No choreography onto the floor
  • No soccer flopping
  • The swing ring police (YES!)
  • The two-foot-layout police (YES!)
  • The side jump police (YES!)
  • The beam rhythm police (YES!)

THIS WEEK'S INTERVIEW

The myth, the legend, actual real-life big-boy sports reporter Will Graves of the AP joins us to discuss his experience in Doha and the current state of US gymnastics, including

• If he floated away in a flood
• Crowd size, and whether worlds should ever go back to Qatar
• His secret meeting with the country's #2 (and interest in the rainbow leotard)
• How he approaches USAG differently than in, say, 2015
• Whether Simone is the greatest thing ever to be, ever, in the history of time and the universe, ever ever ever
• The current state of men's gymnastics in the US

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RELATED EPISODES

• 340: USAG and The Case of the Missing Documents
• 339: Doha Worlds Event Finals Day Two
• 338: Doha Worlds Event Finals Day One
• 337: Doha Worlds Women's All-Around Final
• 336: Doha Worlds Men's All Around Final
• 335: Doha Worlds Womens Team Final
• 334: Doha Worlds Men's Team Final Day Five
• 333: Doha Worlds WAG Prelims Day Four
• 332: Doha Worlds WAG Prelims Day Three
• 331: Doha Worlds MAG Prelims Day Two
• 330: Doha Worlds MAG Prelims Day One
• 329: Steve Penny Arrested & Doha Worlds Preview
• 328: The US Worlds Team & CEO Dumpster Fire