264: 2017 PG Championships Mega Recap - a podcast by gymcastic@gmail.com
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2017 US Elite National Championships
- Results, the stick and vault bonus disclaimer, plus E and D winners. (1:48)
- Award Ceremony (6:11)
- The 2017 Jessica O'Beirne Pussilanimouses Will Never Be Heroes Award to Sienna Robinson
- The Best New Accidental Skill Award to Jordan Chiles
- The Living Legend Hero Team Captain Award to Aly Raisman
- The Wrong Answer Award to Nastia Liukin and Tim Daggett
- The Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Fall Award to Leah Clapper once, and twice
- The Funniest How I Learned This Skill Award to Emily Gaskins
- The What Could Possibly Go Wrong Award to John Macready. Again.
- Women's junior competition (37:35)
- Maile O'Keefe is a hit machine with room to upgrade
- Emma Malabuyo is the real deal in the competition floor and off
- "THE GAGE JUNIORS" is the new "hello."
- Kara Eaker's 9.250 beam E is the highest non-vault E score of the whole meet
- Leanne Wong held her L turn position for 88 minutes and it was breathtaking
- JaFree Scott shows how to Arabian on beam
- Adeline Kenlin did her Podkopayeva! Or is it a Faux-dkopayeva?
- Jay Jay Marshall has all the skills and is planning an upgrade revolution
- Anya Pilgrim's casual Patterson
- Gabby Perea has the highest bars D score in the world
- Olivia Hollingsworth and how to do a double Arabian
- Fake inbar skills and fake dismounts: an oncoming epidemic?
- Women's senior competition (1:04:27)
- Ragan Smith only won by 3 and a half points. Simone would be so disappointed
- The Smith Floor Controversy of '17
- The problem with using "Dixie"
- The problem with using wolf whistles
- Did we like it anyway?
- Jordan Chiles comes back from Classic with a triumphant second place
- Riley McCusker hit a lovely 8 for 8 and got third even with downgrades
- The epic greatness of Trinity Thomas on floor, with a 2.5 stepout, a butterfly, and swashbuckling!
- Did Morgan Hurd really have a "bad" meet?
- The problem with NBC's adoption obsession
- Her BRILLIANT floor-routine theme (everyone else, take notes)
- The latest entry in the Morgiboo Book Club.
- Marissa Oakley's phenomenal bars
- Jade Carey
- The best she has looked on floor so far this year
- Did Amanar problems hurt her worlds chances?
- Ashton Locklear – where does she fit right now?
- Our WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS dream teams
- We found the nation of feelings, so that feelings can send a team to worlds
- Men's senior competition (1:37:15)
- The US men's worlds team is Moldauer, Mikulak, Whittenburg, Penev, Naddour and Kimble
- Alternates are Modi, Bower, and Van Wicklen
- And Spencer would like to know what's the meaning of all this!!!!
- Jessica has the inside scoop from Brett McClure on his process
- Our highlights
- Sam Mikulak's high bar and 0.5 neutral deduction
- Marvin Kimble's comeback story of the century
- Colin Van Wicklen's day 1 Dragulescu
- Whittenburg nailed his Ri Se Gwang on the second day
- Eddie Penev did one of his best floor routines ever and made the worlds team
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