Gymcastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

  This week we talk about our favorite routines from the Swiss Cup and discuss the platforms Grandi, Stoica and Titov ran on in their FIG presidential campaigns.  We talk to Chellsie Memmel who gave us very honest and frank answers about her experience being eliminated from the 2012 Olympic trials process; how Steve Penny suggested her retirement after Classics, being announced as an alternate live on television in 2004, finding love while being an elite athlete, making the team but competing with a severe injury in Beijing and how she made the decision to move on from her longtime coach Jim Chudy at Salto. Louis Smith Calendar Blythe's Notes from the 2012 Swiss Cup Rybacki is the new Kathy Kelly Karolyi confirmed as U.S. National Team Coordinator; Liukin, Rybacki get new job Visa no longer the title sponsor for US Nationals Platforms of the FIG presidents from the fantastic blog / FIG Watchdog,  The All Around  Dvora for Deadspin U.S. Gymnastics Turns Its Back On Chellsie Memmel, Genuine Badass Episode 9