202: The 2016 Men's Olympic Trials, Women's PG Championships - a podcast by gymcastic@gmail.com

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IN THE NEWS

This week, Uncle Tim, Spencer, Lauren, and Jessica chat about:

Men's Olympic Trials
- The Olympic Team: Sam Mikulak, Chris Brooks, Jake Dalton, Alex Naddour (aka Mr. Hollie Vise), John Orozco.
- Alternates: Danell Leyva, Donnell Whittenburg, Akash Modi
- Strategy (8:47)
- Nancy Armour vs. John Orozco drama (14:50)
- Highlights on and off the floor
- Brooks hugging OTC athlete liaison, Sherry.
The skill Uncle Tim's gymnastics nieces have to learn before they can be in his wedding (23:54)
NBC massive errors and generally being jerks (26:18)
- Putting down Gabby even though she's exactly on track to be at her best
- Race, poverty and sexualizing athletes
Women's P&G Championships
- Our debate for the Gymnastics Is Hard Award (38:00)
- Injury list
- Junior analysis, favor and future super stars (50:00)
- Senior analysis (59:00)
- Who qualified to Olympic Trials for the women: Alyssa Baumann; Simone Biles; Christina Desiderio; Gabby Douglas; Brenna Dowell; Rachel Gowey; Laurie Hernandez; Amelia Hundley; Madison Kocian; Ashton Locklear; Maggie Nichols; Aly Raisman; Emily Schild; MyKayla Skinner; Ragan Smith
- Quantifying Simon's awesomeness; she's improved her senior two day total by 4.550
- An update on Simone's floor music lyrics.
The Ranch documentary from NBC (1:31:50)
- The infamous "Kitchen Scene" where Marta tells Bela off (1:33:17)
The F The Score Award : who made us fall in love with gymnastics (1:51:00)
Absolute favorite moments from the entire week of gymnastics (1:56:41)

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