GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
Welcome to Behind The Scenes! Today are watching the at U.S. Championships in Ft. Worth featuring Olympic all-around champions, Simone Biles and Suni Lee alongside their multi-World and Olympic medal winning teammates. We are answering your questions live (view it right here, on the page, to your Club Gym Nerd account to reveal the member podcast). Here's how to . Can't make it live? Add all the exclusive Club Gym Nerd bonus content to your favorite podcast player - instructions . Not a member? . We discuss: Simone, Simone, Simone What Cecile Landi had to say about the TV...
info_outline Behind The Scenes: Podium Training U.S. Championships 2024GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
Welcome to Behind The Scenes! We are watching podium training at U.S. Championships in Ft. Worth and answering your questions live ( to reveal the full podcast). Here's how to . Can't make it live? Add all the exclusive Club Gym Nerd bonus content to your favorite podcast player - instructions . Spencer is back after surgery and we discussed: Gabby Douglas has scratched Simone Biles's Cheng, bars handstand art and beam adjustments Who won podium training Who adjusted their routines post-Classic and how Suni Lee's plans for qualifying top five all-around with a downgraded bar routine,...
info_outline U.S. Gymnastics Championships Preview 2024GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
Olympic All Around Champion Showdown! Jessica is joined by special guest, filing in for Spencer (who's still recovering from surgery), Michigan gymnast and TV analyst, Olivia Karas. We discussed: 1:26 Emma Malabuyo qualified to Paris for the Philippines 4:40 Chusovitina will miss competing in her ninth Olympics after an injury 5:54 Why no one should ever count Gabby Douglas out 11:17 Asian Games news featuring Dipa Karmakar, more Malabuyo 11:29 Selena Harris transfer news 12:15 Antitrust settlement with NCAA might pay college athletes back to 2016 for share of broadcast earnings 13:24...
info_outline 2024 U.S. Classic RecapGymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
Simone Biles won her gazilianth U.S. Classic alongside fellow Olympic all-around Champions: Suni Lee and Gabby Douglas. Jessica is joined by special guest, filing in for Spencer (who is back home!), is Paris 2024 gymnastics coordinator, Olympic and World Championships finalist assisstant coach of Brooklyn Moors, . We discussed: 3:06 Denis talks about Paris Olympic preparations 5:02 Simone Biles told anyone attacking her family to "F*ck off" 9:45 Gymnasts on private jets marks a new era 10:56: What happened when photographer had their flash on as Simone did her triple double 13:11...
info_outline 2024 U.S. Classic: Immediate Post-Meet ReactionsGymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
Welcome to Behind The Scenes! Our immediate reactions after U.S. Classic Podium featuring Olympic AA Champions: Simone Biles, Suni Lee and Gabby Douglas. We are answering questions and discussing everything Classic including what you didn't see on camera. We recorded about 30 min after the meet ended Here's how to . Can't make it live? Add all the exclusive Club Gym Nerd bonus content to your favorite podcast player - instructions . Tonight, judge Nicole Langevin from Precision Choreography joined Jessica to talk all about Simone Biles, Gabby Douglas's performance and what's next...
info_outline Podium Training: 2024 U.S. ClassicGymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
Welcome to Behind The Scenes! Everything that happened at U.S. Classic Podium Training featuring Olympic AA Champions: Simone Biles, Suni Lee and Gabby Douglas. Including what you didn't see on camera. We are answering questions and discussing everything pre-Classic. We recorded live on Friday after podium training. Here's how to . Can't make it live? Add all the exclusive Club Gym Nerd bonus content to your favorite podcast player - instructions . Hartford Classic Meet-up Saturday May 18th RSVP Not a member? Paris McGee (of Ohio State and doing Laurie and Simone's...
info_outline Olympic Champion Triple Header : 2024 U.S. Classic PreviewGymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
FOR GYMCASTIC OLYMPIC TRIALS LIVE SHOW GymCastic Meet-Up in Hartford at Classic, RSVP (deadline Wed. the 15th) 2024 U.S. Classic Preview Special guest, Michigan great and TV analyst, Olivia Karas, fills in for Spencer to discuss this week's epic meet. For the first time in the history of women's gymnastics, three all-around Olympic Champions will compete against each other. 1:40 The historic-ness of this meet 2:42 What does Gabby Douglas need to do to qualify on all events to Championships and with what scores for the Paris Team 7:23 The saga of Suni Lee and whether to petition or skip...
info_outline By the Power of Manila Esposito! European Championships 2024GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
European Championships 2024 1:08 Spencer health update 2:49 World Championships 2025 3:48 Roster update for U.S. Classic in Hartford, including Konnor 5:18 European All-Around Champion Manila Esposito (ITA) 17:30 We construct the highest D score beam routines possible 34:00 European Team Champions, Italy 34:58 Alica Kinsella 36:51 Silver medal British team and all the issues surrounding their success from injuries to Ondine Achampong; Amelie Morgan deciding against elite; and head coach David Kenwright stepping down 39:43 Why Becky Downie is making the Paris Olympic team 45:17 Olympic...
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Welcome to Behind The Scenes Spencer is back today to discuss Suni, Jade and Gabby Douglas immediately following Gabby's debut at the American Classic in Texas. We went live Saturday, April 27th at the conclusion of the meet. Here's how to . Can't make it live? Add all of our Club bonus content to to your favorite podcast player, instructions . We discuss: Spencer's health update Our accountant has advised us against accepting donations for Spencer. Everything that has been donated already is being sent to Spencer. The best way to support him is to honor his wishes against a...
info_outline 2024 NCAA Championship Recap & Olympic Qualification UpdateGymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
LIVE SHOW REPLAY Watch a replay of the our live show from Friday, April 19th in Ft Worth with Kathy Johnson Clarke! until May 3rd. HEADLINES Jessica is joined by Michigan great, Olivia Karas while Spencer is on the mend. LSU are Champions!! Courtney Kupets is out at Georgia. After seven seasons the UGA gymnastics coach, Courtney Kupets Carter, is gone. This has since kicked off a whirlwind of speculation surrounding her successor. The lead candidate heading into the weekend was new national champion head coach Jay Clark, which pushed a bidding war that is rumored to have reached $2...
info_outlineHana Ricna Interview
Ricna is a Czechoslovakian two-time World medalist, 1988 Olympian and three-time Olomouc medalist (the Soviet organized Alternative Olympics in 1984). She took second all-around at Olomouc to Soviet great, Mostepanova. The stadler tkatchev is named after her; a skill used often by the current generation of elites. Her son competed for Stanford gymnastics and Czech Republic at the Rio Olympics. Her daughter just finished her senior year on the Stanford gymnastics team, where she performed her mom's floor routine in tribute. She started gymnastics at age four and thinks she won her first pre-elite junior championship around age 8 (Czech papers reported she was 8. Ricna she said she thinks she was 9 but doesn't remember).
- How The Ricna came to be and what she thinks of the way her skill is performed now
- All the trouble she got into and wild things she did as a young gymnast
- Skills she trained, including a tucked full on beam and a full twisting Hindorf
- Her shoulder dislocation on vault at the 1986 Ahoy Cup in Rotterdam and subsequent surgeries
- Her experience post-injury at the 1988 Seoul Olympics
- What the Czech athletes were told about the boycotted 1984 Olympic Games
- Competing at the legendary, famed, holy grail of gymnastics, the alternative-Olympics in her home country, the Olomouc Friendship Games
- The great Czech Olympic Champion, Vera Caslavska as a coach and friend
- Reflects on how she was trained and fueled in the 80's
- What she would change about her elite training now that she has coached for 30 years
- The divergent attitudes of her gymnast children - Stanford, World Championships and a Rio Olympian who was obsessed with Kohei.
- Watching her daughter, Sandra Jessen (FIG licensed as Jessenova ), compete her 1980's floor routine this year, for Stanford
- Transiting to post-professional athlete life and flying into the U.S. Customs without a visa
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