296: Komova in Stuttgart, NCAA Crack, and the Ranch Incident
MEET NEWS \xa0(6:23)
- STUTTGART!
- Komova is back and as gorgeous as ever on bars and beam
- "It's all fun and games until Russia goes to beam"
- Nina Derwael has a 6.4 D on bars and is ridiculous
- Axelle Klinckaert has the insane\xa0Harry Potter floor routine we've been waiting for all our lives. Spencer breaks it down second-by-second because he needs medical help.
- World Cup
- The winner is Zhang Jin like everyone predicted!
- Jordan Chiles took bronze with big vault and floor sets. Now, about that routine composition...
- Melnikova wins the hilarious save competition
- Our favorite skills: Tisha Volleman's Arabian beam mount! Sarah Voss's Delladio!
- Brinn Bevan used a medical emergency to warm Jessica's heart
- A special tribute to Danusia Francis's floor save from the British Championship
- The Baku World Cup restored our fervor for a CHUSO AA 2020 campaign.
- In a Washington Post article, Aly Raisman and trainer Melanie Seaman detailed the poor conditions at the ranch. Then, all hell broke loose on our Facebook. We discuss
- The key criticisms leveled by Raisman and Seaman and why they really are serious
- Why the reactions of Kelli Hill and Mary Lee Tracy were so disappointing and show that no lessons have been learned
- What a preposterously inappropriate facility the ranch was in every respect
- USAG is now publishing a list of suspended members in addition to the list of permanently ineligible members
- Yet another hole in the USAG story\u2014Jordyn Wieber says\xa0she witnessed an unnamed \u201chigh-profile USAG employee\u201d learning about Nassar pre-2015
- Another tragedy at Cirque, which makes three in less than five years
- Simone and Stacey are the new celebrity power couple
- Real 10s, fake 10s, and the problem with legs-apart-on-landing deductions
- The phenomenon known as Senior Day Crack: Is it OK? (Spoiler alert: No)
- Another CAMERAMAN INTERFERENCE RAGE-O-METER
- HAS ASHTON MOVED TO SIMONE'S GYM?!?!?!?!?!?!
- The problem with TOPs camp culture
- Bringing posters to competitions (in which Jessica gets immediately distracted and starts talking about Judge Aquilina costumes again)
- When the WHOLE TEAM GETS SUSPENDED
- Where are the verification camp scores?!?
- Being more considerate and thoughtful when discussing male body types
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- 295: Elvire Teza and Cecile Canqueteau-Landi
- 294: American Cup 2018
- 293: EXCLUSIVE Inside Elite Verification
- 292: Winter Cup 2018 and FIG official statement on hosting World Championships in anti-gay country
- 291: Not a Good Look
- 290: Valeri Is Out
- 282: GymCastic Book Club \u2013 Fierce, by Aly Raisman
- 281.5: Aly Raisman Comes Forward As Nassar Victim
- 187: McKayla Maroney
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