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Update from the FIG about Fujitsu judging at Jakarta Worlds, Melnikova is back, NCAA updates, and a commissioned episode where we draft Olympic teams as if everyone in the entire quad was at their peak by Trials. LIVE SHOW SEASON PASS ON SALE NOW  Support independent journalists by joining here.  GYMTERNET NEWS Will Fujitsu robot judging be used at Jakarta Worlds? We have an answer See episodes on Judges Evaluation Program here  LSU set a program-record 198.5 for senior night Several Russian gymnasts, including Olympic Champion Angelina Melnikova, were approved for AIN status Chusovitina won the vault World Cup with improved form at age 49 COMMISSIONED EPISODE: Repicking the U.S. Olympic Teams This week Alex AKA the "I love you Tasha guy" gave us the task to put on our National Team Coordinator hats and retroactively pick U.S. Olympic teams from Sydney to Paris using gymnasts who were at their quad-peak. Click here to see Alex's detailed spreadsheet outlining our contenders. The Rules: For each quad, pick the number of gymnasts based on the rules at that time (e.g. the Sydney format is 6-5-4, Athens is 6-3-3, London is 5-3-3, Tokyo is 4-3-3 + 2 individuals) If you are too heartbroken to leave an athlete at home, you can name 2 travelling alternates. You can even name two non-travelling alternates if you must  With all of the best gymnasts from the quad competing at their quad-level peak with no injuries, burnout, and retirements, who do you pick? Go through quad by quad and determine your Olympic team (plus alternates, if necessary) and select team final lineups. Remember, the ultimate goal is to WIN  UP NEXT Spencer is doing a watch-along live blog here before the podcast. College & Cocktails: Saturday, March 15th after UCLA vs. Utah Fantasy Lineups Lock: Friday, March 14th at 2:30pm PT Add exclusive Club Content like College & Cocktails to your favorite podcast player (instructions here). Never miss a live episode! Import the entire College & Cocktails schedule into your Google and iCal calendar here Join Our Fantasy League BONUS CONTENT  Join Club Gym Nerd (or give it as a gift!) for access to weekly Behind the Scenes episodes. Club Gym Nerd members can watch the podcast being recorded and get access to all of our exclusive extended interviews, Behind The Scenes and College & Cocktails. Not sure about joining the club?  College & Cocktails: The Friday Night NCAA Gymnastics Post-Meet Show is available to sample (even if you aren't a Club Gym Nerd member yet). Watch or listen here. 2025 College & (M)Cocktails menu (including mocktails of course) MERCH GymCastic Store: clothing and gifts to let your gym nerd flag fly and even “tapestries” (banners, the perfect to display in an arena) to support your favorite gymnast! Baseball hats available now in the GymCastic store NEWSLETTERS Sign up for all three GymCastic newsletters  FANTASY GAME: GymCastic 2025 College Fantasy Game now open. Never too late to join! RECENT  College & Cocktails: Michigan at Oklahoma Spencer's Live Blog – Friday, March 07, 2025 The 5th Rotation: March 04, 2025 A.I. Judging at Worlds in Jakarta? Fantasy News: 2025 NCAA Season, Week 9 College & Cocktails: Alabama at Arkansas Spencer's Live Blog – Friday, February 28, 2025 Fantasy News: 2025 NCAA Season, Week 8 RESOURCES Spencer's essential website The Balance Beam Situation  Gymnastics History and Code of Points Archive from Uncle Tim RESISTANCE  Submitted by our listeners. ACTION Indivisible Practical ideas about what you can actually do in this moment, check it out: indivisi.org/muskorus 5Calls App will call your Congresspeople by issue with a script to guide you Make 2 to your Congressional rep (local and DC office). 2 each to your US Senators (local and state offices) State your name and zip code or district Be concise with your question or demand (i.e. What specific steps is Senator X taking to stop XYZ) Wait for answer Ask for action items -  tell them what you want them to do (i.e. draft articles of impeachment immediately, I want to see you holding a press conference in front of...etc.) ResistBot Turns your texts into faxes, postal mail, or emails to your representatives in minutes ACLU Mobile Justice App Allows you to record encounters with public officials while streaming to your closest contacts and your local ACLU; REPORT any abuse by authorities to the ACLU and its networks. LAWSUITS Donate to organizations suing the administration for illegal actions ACLU, Southern Poverty Law Center, Northwest Immigration Law Project STAY INFORMED Suggested podcasts:  Amicus, Daily Beans, Pod Save America, Strict Scrutiny Immigrant Rights Know Your Rights Red Cards, We Have Rights Video, Your Rights on trains and buses video

WATCH REPLAY for a limited time only!  MOHINI LIVE SHOW! Headlines Finally: Utah brought in a live piano Jordan Chiles did a genius farewell last ever performance of her bronze medal winning floor routine Kentucky had a proposal at their instrasuqad Rhys McClenaghan on Dancing with the Stars We have a New Skill Alert Interview: Vanessa Zamarripa Stunt woman, author, NCAA Champion, national team member while in college, first U.S. woman to ever successfully compete a Cheng tells us about her career and her new children's book, Mia and the Win From Within. Zam also shares her best advice for other gymnasts or athletes looking to break into the stunt world and what skills she recommend they sharpen up on. Gymternet News The FIG announced an increase to the number of athletes competing in the 2025 world championships in Jakarta, Indonesia  It was also announced that the 2027 Worlds will be hosted in Chendu, China Illia Kovtun is leaving Ukraine for Croatia Hezly Rivera expressed her intentions of competing a full elite quad WCC announced new coaches Monica Phelps has died ‪The Japan Gymnastics Association has decided not to “penalize” Shoko Maya Utah NCAA Champion, Jayden Rucker, is out Follow up: Arrest of Matthew Shriver, co-owner of Everest Gymnastics in New Jersey Are we getting a mixed event in the 2028 Olympics? Join Club Gym Nerd (or give it as a gift!): Weekly Q&A  Behind The Scenes podcast, mini-commissions , group commissions, exclusive extended interviews, and College & Cocktails episodes during NCAA season. Discounts and first dibs on Live Show tickets and merch. Exclusive VIP section on the message board forum. More goodies: GymCastic newsletters  College & (M)Cocktails menu GymCastic Fantasy Games GymCastic Store: clothing and gifts to let your gym nerd flag fly and even “tapestries” (banners, the perfect to display in an arena) to support your favorite gymnast! Baseball hats available now in the GymCastic store RELATED Gift Guide Slaying the Trolls! Why the Trolls are Very, Very Wrong About Women and Sports Andrea Joyce's gymnastics picture book Mia and the Win From Within The Balance: My Years Coaching Simone Biles by Aimee Boorman Jordan Chiles book Maggie Nichols book  Behind The Scenes: every Friday find them all here Behind The Scenes: GOAT Tour & Jordan's Swiss Appeal COMMISSIONED EPISODES The FluffCast Gymnastics Dumest Rules  GymKata starring Kurt Thomas A Quitters Try: The CNN Parkettes Documentary  The Leotard Episode Uncle Tim's Mythbusters Find them all here Image courtesy of Utah Gymnastics; Illustration: Steve Cooper

As 2024 comes to a close and we look ahead, Call Number with American Libraries reflects on the important work of librarians and our beloved institutions. In Episode 99, the Call Number team presents exclusive clips from conversations with authors we interviewed this past year, including Hanif Abdurraqib, Kwame Alexander, Connie Chung, Kate DiCamillo, Max Greenfield, Vashti Harrison, Maggie Nichols, and Jesús Trejo. In these clips, they share the role that books, libraries, and library workers have played in their lives.

Sie ist eine der grossen Persönlichkeiten des europäischen Jazz und eine Pionierin des Free Jazz. Als Irène Schweizer im Juli 83jährig starb, war das Medienecho gewaltig. Auch unzählige Musikerinnen und Musiker trauerten um ihre Freundin und Bühnenpartnerin und der Wunsch war stark, sie noch einmal gemeinschaftlich zu feiern. So lud Schweizers Label «Intakt» zu einer musikalischen Abschiedsfeier. Das traf auch beim Publikum einen Nerv: Innert weniger Stunden war der Abend am 4.November ausverkauft. Der Anlass war ja auch einzigartig: Sechzehn renommierte Musiker:innen aus dem In- und Ausland reisten extra an, um in bisher ungehörten Konstellationen Irène Schweizer zu ehren. Ein Abschied voller Grosszügigkeit, Zärtlichkeit - und auch der Schalk kam nicht zu kurz. Musik unserer Zeit zeigt mit Rüdiger Carl, Sarah Chaksad, Sylvie Courvoisier, Hamid Drake, Maggie Nichols, Lucas Niggli, Günter «Baby» Sommer, Co Streiff, Yves Theiler und Omri Ziegele einen Ausschnitt des dreistündigen Konzertabends.

Maggie Nichols trained as an elite-level gymnast with hopes of competing in the 2016 Olympics. Her dreams were crushed when she didn't make the team, but she went on to become an 8-time NCAA national gymnastics champion. She's now an advocate for young athletes after bravely speaking out about years of sexual abuse by her team physician. In this episode of Flip Your Script with Kristi Piehl, Maggie talks about her memoir, Unstoppable!, the sexual abuse scandal and her relentless pursuit of justice.

Minneapolis will be the center of elite gymnastics. Target Center is host to the USA Olympic Gymnastics Trials this weekend. All eyes will be on St. Paul native Suni Lee and Waconia native Shane Wiskus. And of course Simone Biles will be on the mat too.Minnesota has started to make a name for itself when it comes to producing Olympic gymnasts. Part of that is thanks to the elite gym, Twin City Twisters in Champlin. They are responsible for training Olympic medalist Grace McCallum and world champions Maggie Nichols and Lexi Zeiss. And there are some young athletes that could be the next Minnesota natives to be on the Olympic stage. Maliha Tressel is a Junior Elite gymnast who trains with Twin City Twisters. She joined MPR News host Cathy Wurzer to talk about the upcoming trials and what it takes to compete at a high level.

Summary: From horror to Hallmark, a small town setting is ripe for intrigue for Holly and Devin this week. Join our hosts as they break down books set as far from a city as possible. Living in a town of 3,000 people, Devin feels right at home with a rural community and Holly brings the creepiness and the connections of more isolated regions via her book. Both hosts agree that rural settings turn up the heat in their respective wheelhouses, but with wildly different outcomes (you know, bonking vs. butchering).  Topics Discussed: The Heart (3:59): Devin discussed Maggie Moves On by Lucy Score, a novel following Maggie Nichols as she takes on her most audacious flip project yet in the tiny town of Kinship, Idaho. With a goal of renovating the famed Victorian mansion in less than 4 months and hitting one million subscribers on YouTube, Maggie has no time for the flirtatious and talented landscaper Silas Wright, until he shows her that maybe he and the town are the exact things she should be focused on. Devin's key takeaways were: The tiny town of Kinship is the opposite of everything Maggie has ever known and is what makes Silas who he is. Silas cannot imagine living somewhere outside of Kinship and has a big, boisterous family that he sees 2-3 times / month in a group setting. Maggie has been on her own since 21 and only lives in the same place for 3 months at a time. The setting plays a huge role in how they develop as a couple and individually.  When do we need people, when do we want people, and how often should life be done alone? Maggie and Silas are diametrically opposed at the start of the book; Silas loves being vulnerable and trusting his gut, and Maggie can't do anything without a spreadsheet. Score explores vulnerability and how we grow best through our protagonists' differing viewpoints.  With references to YouTube comments, gifs, viewership, editing, posting, etc. as well as choices for each room and a whole team of people working on the house and landscaping, this book was an HGTV lover's dream. It was fun to hear about this mansion-sized undertaking and some interior decor subplots. The Dagger (20:07): Holly discussed Bad Cree by Jessica Johns, a literary horror book following Mackenzie, a young Cree woman who has moved to Vancouver to avoid facing her sister Sabrina's untimely death. In the last few weeks she's been followed everywhere by crows and her nightmares featuring crows, a frozen lake, and her sister's body have been intensifying. Soon enough, Mackenzie and the reader reckon with the fact that something is going on after she dreams she falls through ice into the lake; Mackenzie wakes up drenched and her phone is broken - the last location of which is showing at the lake hundreds of miles away. Holly's key takeaways were: Mack has fled to Vancouver but returns home to learn to embrace her roots again and not run from pain. At home things are much more in the open: the community is small, people's actions are visible, the land itself is very visible with the plains and farmland. The area has suffered both from companies coming in to frack and extract resources from the land and then abandon the community once they took what was valuable; the community grapples with generational and recent traumas.  Grief plays a huge role throughout this story; not only is Mackenzie navigating the death of her sister Sabrina; the whole family is also still reeling from the loss of their matriarch, Kokum, several years before.  Ultimately even though there are classic horror elements, family and community play a huge role in Bad Cree. The characters are so close and play specific roles within their larger community; knowledge is passed around and sought out from the elders, there are traditions of late night card games and poker. The theme of crows throughout is a metaphor for sticking together, for mourning our dead, for watching each others' backs.  Hot On the Shelf (38:42): Holly: The Miracles of the Namiya General Store by Keigo Higashino Devin: The Prospects by KT Hoffman What's Making Our Hearts Race (42:31): Holly: Dodgers Baseball Devin: Spring Skiing   Instagram: @heartsanddaggerspod Website: www.heartsanddaggerspod.com   If you like what you hear, please tell your friends and rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so that we can find our perfect audience.

Winners of 62 in a row and getting ready for its home opener next week... Sooner Softball Coach Patty Gasso and Hitting Coach JT Gasso drop by the podcast to talk Sooner Softball.Plus, it's a huge weekend inside the LNC... Maggie Nichols is back and we catch up with one of the greatest gynmast in the history of Women's College GymnasticsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Guest-hosted by David Greene: Maggie Nichols was the first athlete on the national team to report former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse to the organization in June 2015. A year later, she was not selected for the U.S. Olympic team. She spoke with guest host David Greene about her new memoir, Unstoppable! Warning: This episode includes descriptions of sexual violence and restrictive eating.

The Minnesota born gymnastics champ gained national attention for her work on the floor, but also her inspiring fight to get justice in a USA Gymnastics scandal.How did she find the courage to face all of her hurdles in life....it's all spelled out in her new book that she talked about with Vineeta Sawkar. 

The Minnesota born gymnastics champ gained national attention for her work on the floor, but also her inspiring fight to get justice in a USA Gymnastics scandal.How did she find the courage to face all of her hurdles in life....it's all spelled out in her new book that she talked about with Vineeta Sawkar. 

Jessica spams us with something about Simone and Taylor Swift and the sportsballs, but then we discuss new training videos of Gabby Douglas and Suni Lee (!), the US elite committee's new "no foreigns" rule, a documentary crew at camp, and Aly Raisman's commentary debut. College Season—Week 3 All 7 teams that competed in Tennessee this weekend scored a program record, some by a point and most by more than a fall. It's giving Spencer medical programs but giving Jessica intense revolution vibes in a new segment: Corrupt or Genius The 10s: Which of the 10.000s scored this week do we believe was the 10-iest? The most surprising rankings through three weeks of the season, as we discuss what's going on with UCLA, Florida, Michigan, Cal, and Arkansas Clemson leotards: Ranked 1st for controversy Stray crutches, furries, body rolls, and wedgie picks star in this week's opportunities for comedy Bailey Bunn produced an important addition to the pantheon of amazing beam saves this week. We discuss where it ranks on the all-time list Elite and Gymternet News Brody Malone returned to competition, Amelie Morgan and Charlotte Booth are on the list for English Championships, details about Konnor McClain's injuries, and JUSTICE FOR COURTNEY MCGREGOR. Plus, the ABC college gymnastics viewership record, Maggie Nichols' book release, an update on robot judges, a pants-off rings-off moment, and FINALLY an answer to why gymnasts are so clumsy More With Club Gym Nerd Join Club Gym Nerd (or give it as a gift!) for access to weekly Behind The Scenes episodes, dedications, mini-commissions and group commissions Club Gym Nerd members get access to all of our exclusive extended interviews, Behind The Scenes and College & Cocktails episodes. More goodies: Live Show Virtual Season Pass 2024 College & Cocktails menu (including cocktails of course) GymCastic newsletters GymCastic Fantasy Gymnastics League Merch: clothing and gifts for the gymnast or gymnastics fan in your life and even "tapestries" (banners perfect to display in an arena) to support your favorite gymnast RELATED EPISODES Feet Aren't Real College & Cocktails Mean Girls Week 1 Big Girl ABC Meet Week 2 Aly's Debut Week 3 New Year, Old Habits 2023 Gymnastics Triumphs and Controversies 2024 NCAA Gymnastics Preview Show Dolly Parton Gymnastics Stampede Emergency Gymternet News RESOURCES & CITATIONS Fisk University roundtable discussion with the six black female head coaches in college gymnastics NCAA Pre-Season Power Rankings Spencer's The Balance Beam Situation Gymnastics History and Code of Points Archive from Uncle Tim Follow the effects of the Russian invasion to Ukraine at Gymnovosti The Highest D and E scores from The Gymternet Men's Gymnastics coverage from Kensley Neutral Deductions MORE WAYS TO LISTEN HERE    

“We are all storytellers. We all live in a network of stories. There isn't a stronger connection between people than storytelling!”-Jimmy Neil SmithThere is nothing better than hearing an amazing story. One that grips you, keeps you on the edge of your seat, and ultimately has some hidden lesson you can later translate into your life! But what makes a good story? How can you take facts or events and weave them into a compelling narrative that grabs and holds an audience's attention? Well, Kennedy Smith is here to tell you!This week's guest is sports reporter and former A&M track athlete, Kennedy Smith! Kennedy's track career at A&M was nothing short of remarkable! She competed in events her entire time at A&M, winning multiple races along the way! She was introduced to sports reporting her Junior season and quickly fell in love with it! She now works with A&M's TexAgs Stacked sports reporting team and AT&T sports net!Throughout this episode we explore how you can create and tell a compelling story and the template Kennedy uses when creating an engaging narrative. We also dive into how Kennedy's instagram grew from 5K followers to over 100K in 6 months, the values and pitfalls of living in a social media age, why social media can help further your career, and tips on how to maintain your mental health when using social media! This was a jammed packed 30 minutes so be sure to pay attention! Connect with Kennedy on Instagram!Related Episodes:96 - Overcome Performance Anxiety & Communicate Like A Pro w/ Sports Reporter Kennedy Smith pt.195 - Handling Rejection, Egos, & Building Your Career w/ professional dancer Annie Medich pt.294 - Overcome Self Doubt & How to Stay Motivated Toward Goals w/ professional dancer Annie Medich pt.153 - Find Your Drive & Perform at Your Peak w/ gymnast Maggie Nichols pt. 160 - Own Your Identity & Handling Rejection w/ actress Gabbie David pt. 144 - Own Who You Are & Maximize Your Potential w/ Gymnast Anastasia Webb pt.287 - Why Comparison Holds You Back & How to Build Self Confidence w/ Athlete Parker Foster pt.2Reach out to and follow us on Instagram!Follow us on Twitter!And remember to GET AFTER IT!

This week's guest is sports reporter and former A&M track athlete, Kennedy Smith! Kennedy's track career at A&M was nothing short of remarkable! She competed in events her entire time at A&M, winning multiple races along the way! She was introduced to sports reporting her Junior season and quickly fell in love with it! She now works with A&M's TexAgs Stacked sports reporting team and AT&T sports net!Throughout this episode we dive into how to get through the feeling of being unmotivated, the value in pushing yourself past your limits, and how your self talk can influence your performance and outcomes! We also explore the danger in your identity being solely wrapped around secular things, how to overcome stage fright or performance anxiety, 3 things you should never do when trying to communicate your message, the biggest factor in how you can communicate well, and so much more!!Make sure to tune in next week where we continue our conversation with Kennedy where we cover how to create and tell a compelling story, how to maintain your mental health while using social media, and so much more!Connect with Kennedy on Instagram!Related Episodes:95 - Handling Rejection, Egos, & Building Your Career w/ professional dancer Annie Medich pt.294 - Overcome Self Doubt & How to Stay Motivated Toward Goals w/ professional dancer Annie Medich pt.153 - Find Your Drive & Perform at Your Peak w/ gymnast Maggie Nichols pt. 160 - Own Your Identity & Handling Rejection w/ actress Gabbie David pt. 144 - Own Who You Are & Maximize Your Potential w/ Gymnast Anastasia Webb pt.287 - Why Comparison Holds You Back & How to Build Self Confidence w/ Athlete Parker Foster pt.2Reach out to and follow us on Instagram!Follow us on Twitter!And remember to GET AFTER IT!

“I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.”-Slyvester StaloneThere is nothing better than hearing how someone relentlessly pursued their goals and came out on top! That can be YOU too! By focusing on the process and deciding today to commit over time, you are beginning the journey where you will look back later and thank yourself for having started. This week's guest is professional ballet dancer, Annie Medich! Annie is a graduate of the HARID Conservatory and the University of Oklahoma, where she earned a BFA in Ballet Performance and a minor in Mathematics. Not to mention, she did all of that while dancing with Oklahoma City Ballet II for two seasons while attending OU! Annie has spent summers training at Canada's National Ballet School, Ballet West, Houston Ballet, Texas Ballet Theater, Kansas City Ballet, Chautauqua Institute, Atlanta Ballet, and now dances professionally with Ballet Arizona!Throughout this episode we explore why you can't let others take away your dreams, how to handle situations where people's egos are involved, and how to overcome rejection and use it to fuel your growth. We also go into 2 ways to get over the fear of rejection, how Annie's faith has shaped her dance career, why having a constant in your life can help you weather any storm, and so much more!Connect with Annie on Instagram!Related Episodes:94 - Overcome Self Doubt & How to Stay Motivated Toward Goals w/ professional dancer Annie Medich pt.153 - Find Your Drive & Perform at Your Peak w/ gymnast Maggie Nichols pt. 160 - Own Your Identity & Handling Rejection w/ actress Gabbie David pt. 144 - Own Who You Are & Maximize Your Potential w/ Gymnast Anastasia Webb pt.287 - Why Comparison Holds You Back & How to Build Self Confidence w/ Athlete Parker Foster pt.2Reach out to and follow us on Instagram!Follow us on Twitter!And remember to GET AFTER IT!

This week's guest is professional ballet dancer, Annie Medich! Annie is a graduate of the HARID Conservatory and the University of Oklahoma, where she earned a BFA in Ballet Performance and a minor in Mathematics. Not to mention, she did all of that while dancing with Oklahoma City Ballet II for two seasons while attending OU! Annie has spent summers training at Canada's National Ballet School, Ballet West, Houston Ballet, Texas Ballet Theater, Kansas City Ballet, Chautauqua Institute, Atlanta Ballet, and now dances professionally with Ballet Arizona!Throughout this episode we dive into why you will need to sacrifice in order to achieve your biggest goals, why obsession isn't a bad thing, and how commitment overtime is one of the biggest factors in your journey to success. We also cover 3 tips on how to stay motivated when your goals seem so far away, how to overcome your self doubts and the pressure of perfection, the fine line between comparison and only focusing on yourself, how to overcome imposter syndrome, and so much more!!Make sure to tune in next week where we continue our conversation with Annie and cover how to overcome rejections, why having a constant in your life can propel you to new heights, and so much more!Connect with Annie on Instagram!Related Episodes:53 - Find Your Drive & Perform at Your Peak w/ gymnast Maggie Nichols pt. 160 - Own Your Identity & Handling Rejection w/ actress Gabbie David pt. 144 - Own Who You Are & Maximize Your Potential w/ Gymnast Anastasia Webb pt.287 - Why Comparison Holds You Back & How to Build Self Confidence w/ Athlete Parker Foster pt.2Reach out to and follow us on Instagram!Follow us on Twitter!And remember to GET AFTER IT!

"It is time for the FBI to be held accountable,” said gymnast Maggie Nichols

Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles and dozens of other women who say they were sexually assaulted by Larry Nassar are seeking more than US$1 billion from the FBI for failing to stop the sports doctor when the agency first received allegations against him, lawyers said today.There's no dispute that FBI agents in 2015 knew that Nassar was accused of assaulting gymnasts, but they failed to act, leaving him free to continue to target young women and girls for more than a year. He pleaded guilty in 2017 and is serving decades in prison."It is time for the FBI to be held accountable," said Maggie Nichols, a national champion gymnast at Oklahoma in 2017-19.Under federal law, a government agency has six months to respond to the tort claims filed Wednesday. Lawsuits could follow, depending on the FBI's response. Larry Nassar. Photo / APWhite noted the 2018 massacre at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The FBI received a tip about five weeks before 17 people were killed at the school, but the tip was never forwarded to the FBI's South Florida office. The government agreed to pay US$127.5 million to families of those killed or injured.The approximately 90 claimants include Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney, all Olympic gold medalists, according to Manly, Stewart & Finaldi, a California law firm. Separately, 13 claims were filed by others in April."If the FBI had simply done its job, Nassar would have been stopped before he ever had the chance to abuse hundreds of girls, including me," said former University of Michigan gymnast Samantha Roy.An email seeking comment was sent to the FBI.Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics told local agents in 2015 that three gymnasts said they were assaulted by Nassar, a team doctor. But the FBI did not open a formal investigation or inform federal or state authorities in Michigan, according to the Justice Department's inspector general, an internal watchdog.Los Angeles agents in 2016 began a sexual tourism investigation against Nassar and interviewed several victims but also didn't alert Michigan authorities, the inspector general said.Nassar wasn't arrested until fall 2016 during an investigation by Michigan State University police. He was a doctor at Michigan State.The Michigan attorney general's office ultimately handled the assault charges against Nassar, while federal prosecutors in Grand Rapids, Michigan, filed a child pornography case.In remarks to Congress last year, FBI Director Christopher Wray acknowledged major mistakes."I'm especially sorry that there were people at the FBI who had their own chance to stop this monster back in 2015 and failed. And that's inexcusable," Wray told victims at a Senate hearing.At that same hearing, Biles, widely considered to be the greatest gymnast of all time, said an "entire system" enabled the abuse. Maroney recalled "dead silence" when she talked to FBI agents about Nassar.The Justice Department in May said that it would not pursue criminal charges against former agents who were accused of giving inaccurate or incomplete responses during the inspector general's investigation.Michigan State University, which was also accused of missing chances over many years to stop Nassar, agreed to pay US$500 million to more than 300 women and girls who were assaulted by him. USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee made a US$380 million settlement.

The championship celebration with Oklahoma women's gymnastics rolls on. Gymnasts Carly Woodard, Ragan Smith, Karrie Thomas, Olivia Trautman, Audrey Davis, Bell Johnson, Danielle Sievers, and Allie Stern swing by. Student coach and former Sooner standout Maggie Nichols joins as well.

The championship celebration with Oklahoma women's gymnastics rolls on. Gymnasts Carly Woodard, Ragan Smith, Karrie Thomas, Olivia Trautman, Audrey Davis, Bell Johnson, Danielle Sievers, and Allie Stern swing by. Student coach and former Sooner standout Maggie Nichols joins as well.

"To be yourself in a world that's constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”-Ralph Waldo EmersonFinding  ourselves is one of the most challenging, yet rewarding journeys we can go on. The process of self discovery is often long and filled with twists and turns, but the outcome will set you up for a lifetime of happiness and growth. This week's guest is Gabbie David. Gabbie graduated from the University of Oklahoma, where she was the first Asian actress accepted into the OU School of Drama. While there, she starred in numerous plays and began starring in commercials with the Oklahoma City Thunder professional basketball team, NBC Universal, and various movies on Lifetime network. She is currently a professional actress currently pursuing her dreams while living in LA.Throughout this episode we dive into why you need to be fully committed to your dreams if you want them to become reality, the importance of being able to find yourself and be crystal clear on who you are before deciding the path you want to take, why it's more important that you act towards your goals than how fast you get there. We also cover 3 life lessons acting has taught Gabbie that you can apply to your life, how comparison can derail you if you let it, how to handle rejection , how important self talk is to your mental health and how you can center yourself when you feel overwhelmed or lost!Make sure to tune in next week for part two of our conversation where we dive deeper into Gabbie's experiences as an actress, how to handle uncertainty, how to build self confidence and deal with peer pressure, the skills you need to captivate an audience, and so much more. If you liked this episode or if you've been enjoying everything we do here at The Quest, let us know by leaving a rating and comment!Follow Gabbie on Instagram!3:20 - How  Gabbie got into acting 7:25 - Differences at each level of acting 11:25 - Owning your identity 16:40 - Gabbie's mindset around comparison20:40 - 3 Lessons Learned from Great Actors27:32 - Handling Rejection 31:26 - How do you find out who you are39:25 - The benefits of therapy 42:39 - Practicing being yourself Related Episodes:53 - Find Your Drive & Perform at Your Peak w/ gymnast Maggie Nichols pt. 156 - 3 Ways to Resolve Conflict & Create Successful Partnerships w/ musician Reed Hoelscher pt.249 - Build Effective Habits & the Science Behind Goal Setting w/ Psychologist Dr. Eric Day pt.117 - Overcome Your Struggles & Sacrifice for Your Future w/ Kennedy Brooks pt.2Check out EVL Nutrition for your one stop shop to supplements! They offer great tasting protein, pre and post workout supplements, multivitamins, and so much more!Use code "QUESTEVL20" for 20% off all your supplement orders and combine this code with others to save even more! Fill out our quick 6-question audience survey to help us give you the best experience possible!Audience Advice Survey Reach out to and follow us on Instagram!Follow us on Twitter!And remember to GET AFTER IT!

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter."-Martin Luther King JrWe each have our own individual roads we travel and they all have their own unique trials we will face. You will have setbacks and obstacles; however, the determining factor is how you are able to respond to those situations and drive on towards the dreams and desires you have. This week's guest is former USA Women's Olympic gymnast and Oklahoma Sooners gymnast, Maggie Nichols. Maggie competed with Team USA since she was 13 and has been a dominant force in the sport of gymnastics since. She earned 7 international 1st place finishes, 22 perfect 10's in college, and 7 national championships while at OU. Maggie also starred in the Netflix documentary Athlete-A, which reveals the story behind her time on the USA women's gymnastics team and the controversy surrounding it. This week's episode highlights how you can come back form the lowest of lows and transform your situation into the highest of highs. In part two of our conversation with Maggie Nichols we dive into the sexual assault she faced while competing with Team USA women's gymnastics and how she turned it into one of the greatest collegiate careers of all time, the value of having a support system, 3 ways to built trust within teams, the skills Maggie had which lead to her being one of the greatest NCAA gymnasts of all time, and 3 things Maggie wished she knew before starting college. If you liked this episode or if you've been enjoying everything we do here at The Quest, let us know by leaving a rating and comment!Check out part 1 of our conversation by clicking below and choosing your favorite platform to listen on!53 - Find Your Drive & Perform at Your Peak w/ gymnast Maggie Nichols pt. 1Check out EVL Nutrition for your one stop shop to supplements! They offer great tasting protein, pre and post workout supplements, multivitamins, and so much more!Use code "QUESTEVL20" for 20% off all your supplement orders and combine this code with others to save even more! Fill out our quick 6-question audience survey to help us give you the best experience possible!Audience Advice Survey Reach out to and follow us on Instagram!Follow us on Twitter!And remember to GET AFTER IT!

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”-Muhammad AliThe difference between motivation and drive is one of the key factors separating the good from the great. Motivation is a fleeting, temporary feeling. Whereas your drive is a lasting, dominant force which propels you to achieve all you have set out to achieve. This week's guest is former USA Women's Olympic gymnast and Oklahoma Sooners gymnast, Maggie Nichols. Maggie competed with Team USA since she was 13 and has been a dominant force in the sport of gymnastics since. She earned 7 international 1st place finishes, 22 perfect 10's in college, and 7 national championships while at OU. Maggie also starred in the Netflix documentary Athlete-A, which reveals the story behind her time on the USA women's gymnastics team and the controversy surrounding it. Throughout this episode Maggie dives into how she handled the pressure of competing on such a large stage, she gives her tips on how to find your drive and achieve your goals, the value of having role models to push you when you face obstacles, 3 lessons she learned from her coaches on Team USA, her relationship with Simon Biles, how to build confidence, and the skills every leader needs in order to succeed. Make sure to come back next week where we dive deeper into Maggie's elite level mentality, the skills to separate yourself from average people, how to get rid of distractions, and we cover the story behind Athlete-A and how Maggie has dealt with it. If you liked this episode or if you've been enjoying everything we do here at The Quest, let us know by leaving a rating and comment!Check out EVL Nutrition for your one stop shop to supplements! They offer great tasting protein, pre and post workout supplements, multivitamins, and so much more!Use code "QUESTEVL20" for 20% off all your supplement orders and combine this code with others to save even more! Fill out our quick 6-question audience survey to help us give you the best experience possible!Audience Advice Survey Reach out to and follow us on Instagram!Follow us on Twitter!And remember to GET AFTER IT!

In the final hour of The Year in Review we look back at some of the biggest stories of the year told through our daily podcast Start Here. We take you back to the morning after US gymnasts Simone Biles, McKalya Maroney, Aly Raisman and Maggie Nichols testified in front of congress over the handling of the Larry Nasser sexual abuse investigation, we hear from an activist fighting for lead-free water in Michigan and break down what was causing GameStop stock to rocket.

In June 2015, the FBI in Indianapolis was notified that Larry Nassar, a doctor for Olympic caliber gymnasts, was sexually abusing his underage patients. In this episode, hear highlights from a riveting Senate hearing with testimony from Maggie Nichols, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman, and Simone Biles and get all the details presented in an Inspector General report explaining why the FBI did nothing to stop Larry Nassar for over a year while he continued to abuse dozens of additional young girls. Please Support Congressional Dish – Quick Links Contribute monthly or a lump sum via PayPal Support Congressional Dish via Patreon (donations per episode) Send Zelle payments to: Donation@congressionaldish.com Send Venmo payments to: @Jennifer-Briney Send Cash App payments to: $CongressionalDish or Donation@congressionaldish.com Use your bank's online bill pay function to mail contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North, Number 4576, Crestview, FL 32536. Please make checks payable to Congressional Dish Thank you for supporting truly independent media! Background Sources Documentaries Athlete A. Netflix. Hannah Shaw-Williams. June 24, 2020. “Athlete A True Story: What Netflix's Documentary Leaves Out” Screen Rant. Government Documents and Reports Office of the Inspector General. July 2021. Investigation and Review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Handling of Allegations of Sexual Abuse by Former USA Gymnastics Physician Lawrence Gerard Nassar (21-093). United States Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General. 2021. “DOJ OIG Releases Report of Investigation and Review of the FBI's Handling of Allegations of Sexual Abuse by Former USA Gymnastics Physician Lawrence Gerard Nassar.” U.S. Department of Justice. Senator Jerry Moran and Senator Richard Blumenthal. July 30, 2019. The Courage of Survivors: A Call to Action. Senate Olympics Investigation. Manly, Stewart & Finaldi. September 8, 2016. “Jane JD Doe Complaint: Case Number 34-2016-00200075.” Superior Court of California, Sacramento. News Coverage Grace Segers. September 15, 2021. “Gymnasts Rip the FBI for Its Failure to Stop Larry Nassar's Serial Sexual Abuses.” The New Republic. Rebecca Shabad. September 15, 2021. “FBI fires agent accused of failing to investigate Nassar sex-abuse allegations.” NBC News. Kara Berg. September 8, 2021. “How much Michigan State has paid in wake of Larry Nassar scandal.” The Lansing State Journal. Sayantani Nath. February 25, 2021. “Who owns Twistars USA gym now? John Geddert sold gym infamous for Larry Nassar's sexual abuse before suicide.” MEAWW (Media, Entertainment, Arts WorldWide). Reuters. February 25, 2021. “Nassar Whistleblower Repeats Call for USAG Decertification.” U.S. News & World Report. Dan Barry, Serge F. Kovaleski and Juliet Macur. February 3, 2018. “As F.B.I. Took a Year to Pursue the Nassar Case, Dozens Say They Were Molested.” The New York Times. Matthew Futterman, Louise Radnofsky and Rebecca Davis O'Brien. June 2, 2017. “Former U.S. Gymnastics Chief Received $1 Million Severance Package.” The Wall Street Journal. Tim Evans, Mark Alesia, and Marisa Kwiatkowski. September 12, 2016. “Former USA Gymnastics doctor accused of abuse.” The Indianapolis Star. Marisa Kwiatkowski, Mark Alesia and Tim Evans. August 4, 2016. “A blind eye to sex abuse: How USA Gymnastics failed to report cases.” The Indianapolis Star. Matt Krantz. September 13, 2013. “2008 crisis still hangs over credit-rating firms.” USA Today. Audio Sources Dereliction of Duty: Examining the Inspector General's Report on the FBI's Handling of the Larry Nassar Investigation Senate Judiciary Committee September 15, 2021 Committee concluded a hearing to examine the Inspector General's report on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's handling of the Larry Nassar investigation, after receiving testimony from Michael E. Horowitz, Inspector General, and Christopher A. Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, both of the Department of Justice; Simone Biles, Houston, Texas; McKayla Maroney, Long Beach, California; Maggie Nichols, Little Canada, Minnesota; and Aly Raisman, Boston, Massachusetts. Sound Clips 47:54 Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL): By the time Nassar was convicted and sentenced in federal and Michigan State court, over 150 survivors had come forward to recount the impact of these horrific crimes. Today we believe Nasser abused more than 300 athletes before he was brought to justice. 48:20 Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL): Between 2018 and 2019, a subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee led by our colleagues, Senator Richard Blumenthal and Senator Jerry Moran conducted an 18 month investigation into this case. The investigation concluded that the US Olympic Committee in the USA Gymnastics knowingly concealed abuse by masseur between the summer of 2015 and September of 2016. The Senate passed two bills aimed at addressing the failures in the Nasser case with overwhelming bipartisan support that protecting young victims from Sexual Abuse Act of 2017, sponsored by Senator Feinstein, and the umpiring Olympic Paralympic amateur athletes act of 2020 by Senators Moran and Blumenthal both extended the duty of certain adults to report suspected child abuse. These are good and important steps. But the reporting requirement in both laws is not worth much if law enforcement and the FBI failed to respond and immediately and aggressively investigate the abuse cases. 51:57 Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL): We'll also hear from the Inspector General and the FBI Director, who owe these young women in this committee an explanation of what the FBI is doing to ensure that this never happens again. And I'll add that I am disappointed. We asked the Justice Department to testify about their decision not to prosecute the two FBI officials who made false statements to the Attorney General. I understand it's a long standing department policy not to comment on decisions not to prosecute, but robust oversight of the Department of Justice is a core responsibility of this committee, committed to ensuring that committee members have an opportunity to question the Department of Justice about this issue at an oversight hearing in the fall. 56:44 Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA): I suspect there's much more to that story. One issue not talked about much is that the FBI has a division in Washington DC, known as the Violent Crimes Against Children unit. This component of headquarters was notified by two of its field offices about the Nassar allegations way back in 2015, and 2016, respectively. The Children's unit employs subject matter experts so it is well position in FBI to guide those field officers on their duties in child exploitation cases. Because it's housed at headquarters, this children's unit also was uniquely positioned to play a coordinating role by supervising case transfers to the appropriate FBI field offices. And this unit was well positioned to offer qualitative supervision of field offices' work. 58:19 Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA): The Children's unit helped develop a white paper, or more accurately, a whitewash, after the Nassar case attracted national attention. Ensuring that truthful information was provided about the FBI's role in this investigation was clearly not the main priority. This is a serious problem at the heart of the FBI. Not a case of a few errant agents. 1:00:12 Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA): Finally, I want to mention that I'm working on legislation to close the legislative loophole in the sex tourism statute that the Inspector General flagged in his report. This gap in the law allowed Larry Nassar to evade federal prosecution for assaulting children while traveling abroad. 1:26:34 Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL): Our first witness Simone Biles, one of the greatest gymnast of all time. She is the first woman to capture five all round world championship titles and the most decorated gymnast, male or female, in World Championships history. 25 medals overall, she is a seven time Olympic medalist. Her extraordinary accomplishments have received widespread recognition including two Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year awards. 1:27:18 Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL): McKayla Maroney was a member of the American women's gymnastics team dubbed the Fierce Five at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She won a gold medal in team competition and an individual silver medal in the vault. She was also a member of the American team at the 2011 World Championships where she won gold medals in the team and vault competitions and the 2013 World Championships where she defended her vault title and we frequently see her on TV jumping on a roof. 1:27:48 Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL): Our next witness Maggie Nichols led the University of Oklahoma women's gymnastics team to Team national championships in 2017 and 2019, also winning six individual titles. She represented the United States at the 2015 World Championships where she won a gold medal in team competition and a bronze medal on floor exercise. She also holds several USA Gymnastics national championship medals. 1:28:15 Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL): Finally, Aly Raisman, one of the most accomplished American gymnast of all time, two time Olympian, team captain of the 2012 and 2016 women's gymnastics team captured six Olympic and four World Championship medals, including an individual silver medal in the 2016 Olympic all around and gold medals in team competition in 2012 and 2016. A leader on and off the floor. Reisman uses her platform to advocate for abuse prevention and education. 1:32:25 Simone Biles: USA Gymnastics and the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee knew that I was abused by their official team doctor long before I was ever made aware of their knowledge. In May of 2015, Rhonda Faehn, the former head of USA Gymnastics women's program, was told by my friend and teammate, Maggie Nichols, that she suspected I, too was a victim. I didn't understand the magnitude of what was happening until the Indianapolis Star published its article in the fall of 2016, entitled, "former USA Gymnastics doctor accused of abuse." Yet while I was a member of the 2016 US Olympic team, neither USAG USOPC nor the FBI ever contacted me or my parents, while others had been informed and investigations were ongoing. I had been left to wonder why was not taught until after the Rio Games. This is the largest case of sexual abuse in the history of American sport. And although, there has been a fully independent investigation of the FBI his handling of the case, neither USAG nor USOPC have ever been made the subject of the same level of scrutiny. These are the entities entrusted with the protection of our sport and our athletes. And yet it feels like questions of responsibility and organizational failures remain unanswered. 1:34:30 Simone Biles: We have been failed and we deserve answers. Nassar is where he belongs, but those who enabled him deserve to be held accountable. If they are not, I am convinced that this will continue to happen to others, across Olympic sports. In reviewing the OIGs report, it really feels like the FBI turned a blind eye to us and went out of its way to help protect USAG and USOPC. A message needs to be sent. If you allow a predator to harm children, the consequences will be swift and severe. 1:37:00 McKayla Maroney: As most of you are probably aware, I was molested by the US Gymnastics National Team and Olympic Team doctor, Larry Nasser, and in actuality, he turned out to be more of a pedophile than he was a doctor. What I'm trying to bring to your attention today is something incredibly disturbing and illegal. After telling my entire story of abuse to the FBI in the Summer of 2015, not only did the FBI not report my abuse, but when they eventually documented my report, 17 months later, they made entirely false claims about what I said. After reading the Office of Inspector General's OIG report, I was shocked and deeply disappointed at this narrative they chose to fabricate, they chose to lie about what I said and protect a serial child molester, rather than protect not only me, but countless others. My story is one which Special Agent in Charge Jay Abbott and his subordinates did not want you to hear. And it's time that I tell you. In the summer of 2015, like I said, I was scheduled to speak to the FBI about my abuse with Larry Nasser over the phone. I was too sick to go meet with anyone in person. And talking about this abuse would give me PTSD for days. But I chose to speak about it to try and make a difference and protect others. I remember sitting on my bedroom floor for nearly three hours as I told them what happened to me. I hadn't even told my own mother about these facts. But I thought as uncomfortable and as hard as it was to tell my story, I was going to make a difference, and hopefully protecting others from the same abuse. I answered all of their questions honestly and clearly. And I disclosed all of my molestations I had entered by Nassar to them in extreme detail. They told me to start from the beginning. I told them about the sport of gymnastics, how you make the national team, and how I came to meet Larry Nassar when I was 13 at a Texas camp. I told him that the first thing Larry Nassar ever said to me was to change into shorts with no underwear, because that would make it easier for him to work on me. And within minutes, he had his fingers in my vagina. The FBI then immediately asked, Did he insert his fingers into your rectum? I said, No, he never did. They asked if he used gloves. I said no, he never did. They asked if this treatment ever helped me. I said no, it never did. This treatment was 100% abuse and never gave me any relief. I then told the FBI about Tokyo, the day he gave me a sleeping pill for the plane ride, to then work on me later that night. That evening, I was naked, completely alone with him on top of me molesting me for hours. I told them I thought I was going to die that night, because there was no way that he would let me go. But he did. I told them I walked the halls of a Tokyo hotel at 2am, at only 15 years old. I began crying at the memory over the phone. And there was just dead silence. I was so shocked at the agent's silence and disregard for my trauma. After that minute of silence he asked "Is that all?" Those words in itself was one of the worst moments of this entire process for me, to have my abuse be minimized and disregarded by the people who were supposed to protect me. Just to feel like my abuse was not enough. But the truth is my abuse was enough, and they wanted to cover it up. USA Gymnastics in concert with the FBI and the Olympic Committee or working together to conceal that Larry Nassar was a predator. I then proceeded to tell them about London, and how he'd signed me up last on his sheet so he could molest me for hours twice a day. I told them how he molested me right before I won my team gold medal. How he gave me presents, bought me caramel macchiatos and bread when I was hungry. I even sent them screenshots of Nassar's last text to me, which was "Michaela, I love how you see the world with rose colored glasses. I hope you continue to do so." This was very clear cookie cutter pedophilia and abuse. And this is important because I told the FBI all of this, and they chose to falsify my report and to not only minimize my abuse, but silence me yet again. I thought given the severity of the situation, they would act quickly for the sake of protecting other girls, but instead, it took them 14 months to report anything when Larry Nassar, in my opinion, should have been in jail that day. 1:42:00 McKayla Maroney: According to the OIG report, about 14 months after I disclosed my abuse to the FBI, nearly a year and a half later, the FBI agent who interviewed me in 2015 decided to write down my statement, a statement that the OIG report determined to be materially false. 1:42:33 McKayla Maroney: What is the point of reporting abuse if our own FBI agents are going to take it upon themselves to bury that report in a drawer? 1:42:55 McKayla Maroney: What's even more upsetting to me is that we now we know that these FBI agents have committed an obvious crime. They falsified my statement, and that is illegal in itself. Yet no recourse has been taken against them. The Department of Justice refused to prosecute these individuals. Why? Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco couldn't even bring herself to be here today. And it is the Department of Justice's job to hold them accountable. 1:43:25 McKayla Maroney: I am tired of waiting for people to do the right thing, because my abuse was enough and we deserve justice. These individuals clearly violated policies and were negligent in executing their duties. And in doing so, more girls were abused by Larry Nasser for over a year. To not indict these agents is a disservice to me and my teammates. It is a disservice to the system which was built to protect all of us from abuse. It was a disservice to every victim who suffered needlessly at the hands of Larry Nassar after I spoke up. Why are public servants whose job is to protect getting away with this? This is not justice. Enough is enough. Today, I ask you all to hear my voice. I ask you please do all that is in your power to ensure that these individuals are held responsible and accountable for ignoring my initial report, for lying about my initial report, and for covering up for a child molester. 1:44:30 McKayla Maroney: I would like to express my deep gratitude to the United States Senate, a very powerful institution, that from the very beginning has fought for us rather than against us. 1:46:47 Maggie Nichols After I reported my abuse to USA Gymnastics, my family and I were told by their former president, Steve Penny, to keep quiet and not say anything that could hurt the FBI investigation. We now know there was no real FBI investigation occurring. While my complaints with the FBI, Larry Nassar continued to abuse women and girls. During this time the FBI issued no search warrants and made no arrests. From the day I reported my molestation by Nassar, I was treated differently by USAG. Not only did the FBI fail to conduct a thorough investigation, but they also knew that USAG and the USOPC created a false narrative where Larry Nasser was allowed to retire with his reputation intact and returned to Michigan State University, thus allowing dozens of little girls to be molested. As the Inspector General's report details during this time period, FBI agents did not properly documented evidence failed to report proper authorities and the Special Agent in Charge was seeking to become the new director of security for the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee. A job opportunity raised by Steve Penny. 1:51:20 Aly Raisman: In 2015, it was known that at least six national team athletes had been abused by Nassar. There was even one of the athletes that was abused on film. Given our abusers unfettered access to children, stopping him should have been a priority. Instead, the following occurred. The FBI failed to interview pertinent parties in a timely manner. It took over 14 months for the FBI to contact me, despite my many requests to be interviewed by them. The records establish that Steve Penney, FBI agent Jay Abbott, and their subordinates worked to conceal Nassar's crimes. Steve Penney arranged with the FBI to conduct my interview at the Olympic Training Center, where I was under the control and observation of USA Gymnastics and the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee. The day of my interview, Steve Penny flew to the Olympic Training Center, and he made sure I was aware he was there. I felt pressured by the FBI to consent to Nassar's plea deal. The agent diminish the significance of my abuse and it made me feel my criminal case wasn't worth pursuing. Special Agent in Charge of investigating Nassar met Steve penny for beers to discuss job opportunities in the Olympic movement. Another FBI agent work with Steve penny to determine jurisdiction without interviewing the survivors. I've watched multiple high ranking officials at USAG, USOPC and FBI resign or retire without explanation of how they may have contributed to the problem, some of whom were publicly thanked for their service and rewarded with severance or bonus money. My reports of abuse were not only buried by USAG USOPC, but they were also mishandled by federal law enforcement officers who failed to follow their most basic duties. The FBI and others within both USAG and USOPC knew that Nasser molested children and did nothing to restrict his access. Steve Penny and any USAG employee could have walked a few steps to file a report with the Indiana Child Protective Services since they shared the same building. Instead, they quietly allowed Nassar to slip out the side door knowingly allowing him to continue his “work” at MSU Sparrow hospital, a USAG Club, and even run for school board. Nassar found more than 100 new victims to molest. It was like serving innocent children up to a pedophile on a silver platter. 1:54:33 Aly Raisman: USAG and USOPC have a long history of enabling abuse by turning a blind eye. Both organizations knew of Nassar's abuse long before it became public. Although you wouldn't know that by reading their press releases, which would have you and their corporate sponsors believe that athletes safety comes first. We have called for a fully independent factual investigation for years now, because I and these women who sit before you know firsthand, these organizations and their public statements are not to be trusted. They claim they want accountability, but then seek to restrict which staff can be interviewed, which documents can be examined and claim attorney client privilege over and over again. The so called investigations these organizations orchestrated were not designed to provide the answers we so critically need. Why are we left to guess why USAG and USOPC deliberately ignored reported abuse? Was it to protect the value of the sponsorships? The LA 28 bid? their own jobs? to avoid criminal liability, perhaps. But why must we speculate when the facts are obtainable and the stakes are so high? 1:56:04 Aly Raisman: Why would duly sworn federal law enforcement officers ignore reports of abuse by a doctor across state lines and country borders for a future job opportunity? Or whether additional incentives and pressures? Why must we speculate when the facts are obtainable and the stakes are so high 1:57:00 Aly Raisman: Without knowing who knew what when, we cannot identify all enablers or determine whether they are still in positions of power. We just can't fix a problem we don't understand 2:04:28 Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA): I Hope this isn't something so sensitive, you don't feel you can talk about it. But do you have any thoughts or inputs to share about SafeSport, the national nonprofit entity that has been tasked by Congress with handling allegations from amateur athletes? Aly Raisman: Yeah, I personally think safe sport is...I'm trying to be respectful here...I don't like safe sport. I hear from many survivors that they report their abuse and it's like playing hot potato where someone else kicks it over to somebody else, and they don't hear back for a really long time. I think a really big issue is that safe sport is funded by USA Gymnastics or the United States Olympic Committee. I'm not sure exactly what the correct terminology is. But if you're SafeSport and you are funded by the organization you're investigating, they're likely not going to do the right thing. And so I think that it needs to be completely separate. And I personally think SafeSport needs a lot of work. And I know from many survivors and you know, my mom has personally reported things to safesport, but we've followed up so many times, they say we can't help you or they either ignore us or pass it on to somebody else and the person they pass it on to says they kick it back to them. It's just a complete mess and the priority doesn't seem to be safety and well being of athletes. It seems to be protecting USA Gymnastics and doing everything to keep the PR good. 2:10:15 Aly Raisman: Because the FBI made me feel like my abuse didn't count and it wasn't a big deal. And I remember sitting there with the FBI agent and him trying to convince me that it wasn't that bad. And it's taken me years of therapy to realize that my abuse was bad that it does matter. 2:11:33 Simone Biles: Okay, one more to add -- we also want to see them, at least be federally prosecuted to the fullest extent because they need to be held accountable. 3:03:54 FBI Director Christopher Wray: I want to be crystal clear, the actions and inaction of the FBI employees detailed in this report are totally unacceptable. These individuals betrayed the core duty that they have of protecting people. They failed to protect young women and girls from abuse. The work we do certainly is often complicated and uncertain, and we're never going to be perfect, but the kinds of fundamental errors that were made in this case in 2015 and 2016 should never have happened. 3:06:37 FBI Director Christopher Wray: When I received the Inspector General's report and saw that the Supervisory Special Agent in Indianapolis had failed to carry out even the most basic parts of the job, I immediately made sure he was no longer performing the functions of a Special Agent, and I can now tell you that that individual no longer works for the FBI in any capacity. 03:07:01 FBI Director Christopher Wray: As for the former Indianapolis specialists in charge, the descriptions of his behavior also reflect violations of the FBI, his long standing code of conduct and the ethical obligations for all FBI employees, especially senior officials. Now that individual has been gone for the Bureau for about three and a half years having retired in January of 2018. Before any review launched and I will say I will say it is extremely frustrating that we are left with little disciplinary recourse when people retire before their cases can be adjudicated. 3:11:10 Inspector General Michael Horowitz: Let me briefly just summarize the results of our investigation. In July 2015, USA Gymnastics reported the sexual assault allegations against Nassar to the FBI Indianapolis field office. USA Gymnastics officials described graphic information that had been provided by Ms. Maroney, Ms. Nichols and Ms. Raisman, and informed the FBI that all three athletes were available to be interviewed. However, it wasn't until six weeks later, on September 2, that the Indianapolis office interviewed Ms. Maroney by telephone as you heard, and neither Ms. Nichols nor Ms. Raisman were ever interviewed by that office. Moreover, the Indianapolis office did not formally document its interview of Ms. Maroney at the time, or its July meeting with USA Gymnastics. The Office also didn't formally open an investigation or an assessment of the matter. Immediately following that September 2 interview, the Indianapolis office and local federal prosecutors concluded there was no venue in Indianapolis for the federal investigation. Both offices also had serious questions as to whether there was federal criminal jurisdiction, as opposed to state or local jurisdiction. Yet the Indianapolis Field Office didn't advise state or local authorities about the allegations and didn't take any actions to mitigate the risks to gymnast that Nassar was continuing to treat. Further, that office failed to transfer the case to the FBI office that actually might have had venue, despite informing USA Gymnastics that it had actually done so. 3:12:45 Inspector General Michael Horowitz: After eight months of FBI inactivity, in May 2016, USA Gymnastics officials contacted the FBI Los Angeles field office to report the same allegations that they had provided to the Indianapolis office. Following this meeting, the LA office opened a federal investigation and undertook numerous investigative steps. But, critically, it didn't contact state or local authorities and it didn't take action to mitigate the ongoing threat presented by Nassar. 3:13:13 Inspector General Michael Horowitz: It wasn't until August 2016 when Michigan State University Police, that police department, received a separate sexual assault complaint from another gymnast. And in September 2016, the next month, the MSU Police Department executed a court authorized search of Nassar's residence. Among other things, they seized devices containing over 30,000 images of child pornography. 3:13:42 Inspector General Michael Horowitz: According to civil court documents, approximately 70 or more young athletes were allegedly sexually abused by Nassar under the guise of medical treatment between July 2015, when the FBI first received these allegations, until September 2016. 3:14:00 Inspector General Michael Horowitz: We further found that when the FBI's handling of the Nassar matter came under scrutiny in 2017 and 2018, Indianapolis officials provided inaccurate information to make it appear that they had actually been diligent in their follow-up efforts, and did so in part by blaming others. In addition, it resulted in the Indianapolis Supervisory Special Agent drafting a summary of his telephonic interview of Ms. Maroney from 2015. That summary included statements, as you heard from Ms. Maroney, that didn't accurately reflect what she had told them and could have actually jeopardized the criminal investigations by including false information that could have bolstered Nasser's defense. Further, we concluded that that agent made false testimony statements to the OIG in two interviews that we conducted. 3:14:55 Inspector General Michael Horowitz: We also learned during our investigation that in the fall of 2015, the FBI Indianapolis Special Agent in Charge, Jay Abbott, met with USA Gymnastics president, Steve Penny, at a bar and discussed a potential job opportunity with the US Olympic Committee. Thereafter, Abbott engaged with Penny about both his interest in the US Olympic Committee job and the Nassar investigation, while at the same time participating in Nassar investigation discussions at the FBI. Abbott applied for the US Olympic Committee position in 2017. But wasn't selected. We determined that Abbott's actions violated the FBI's clear conflicts of interest policy. We also found that Abbott made false statements to the OIG and my agents in two interviews that we conducted. 3:19:21 FBI Director Christopher Wray: So we have something called CAFI's, which are Child Adolescent Forensic Interviewers. These are interviewers who are specially trained in the unique sensitivities of what it takes to interview people, victims, survivors of these kinds of crimes. And one of the reforms that we've put in place is to make crystal clear in policy that interviews of individuals like Miss Raisman should be conducted with those kinds of interviewers and they should not be conducted telephonically, they should be conducted in person wherever possible. That was true before, we've made it more clear now, and we're putting training in place --mandatory training. 3:20:12 Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL): General Horowitz, did any of the FBI employees or agents involved in this case deliberately misrepresent any facts to you and your investigation? Inspector General Michael Horowitz: They did. We found both that the person who wrote the report that Ms. Maroney testified about falsely testified to us about what he did in connection with that report, as well as other matters that we asked him about and Special Agent in Charge Abbott made false statements to us about the steps he took in 2015 when these allegations came in, but also about his job seeking efforts with the US Olympic Committee. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL): Do these deliberate misrepresentations reach the level of criminal violation? Inspector General Michael Horowitz: Well, we found that they violated criminal law sufficiently that in what we do at that point is make the referral to prosecutors to assess them because that's who needs to make the decision whether or not there will be charges brought. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL): Director Wray, what happened next? FBI Director Christopher Wray: Well, as inspector general Horowitz said, those were referred to the prosecutors over at the Justice Department and they're the ones that made the decision. As I understand it from Inspector General Horowitz's report the prosecutors at the Justice Department on two separate occasions, both in 2020 and then again in 2021, declined to prosecute, but I really would defer to the Justice Department for those. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL): Are you personally aware or professionally aware of any facts or circumstances that would lead to that decision? FBI Director Christopher Wray: I am not. 3:22:49 FBI Director Christopher Wray: So there's a whole bunch of things we've done differently. First, we've accepted every single one of Inspector General Horowitz's recommendations, and then some. We've already begun implementing all of those. We are strengthening policies, we're strengthening procedures. We're taking training, we're strengthening our systems, all building in double checked triple checks, safeguards, oversight, different ways of making sure that we cannot have as occurred here, in certain instances, a single point of failure. That's one of the lessons here that is just totally unacceptable. And so part of what's built in is a bunch of, as I said, double and triple, even quadruple checks to make sure that that doesn't happen, both in terms of how the initial reports are handled with the appropriate urgency, but also in terms of communication. One of the important recommendations from Inspector General Horowitz is reporting to state local law enforcement, as well as communications between field offices, transfers between field offices. 3:31:20 FBI Director Christopher Wray: My understanding of the most senior individual involved, based on looking at the thorough and independent investigation that Inspector General Horowitz conducted, was that the most senior individual with knowledge and responsibility was the Special Agent in Charge in Indianapolis, Mr. Abbott. 3:32:23 Inspector General Michael Horowitz: FBI policies don't require the level of detail and reporting to the headquarters unit that would, for example, put the responsibility directly on them to have notified state local authorities. 3:56:55 Senator Chris Coons (D-DE): My impression from what she'd said, and what I've read is that their concern is that USA Gymnastics and the Olympic Committee have thrown a variety of roadblocks into a genuinely thorough investigation into whether there had or hadn't been previous incidents similar to Dr. Nassar, either in USA Gymnastics or within sports more broadly. It is hard to believe that this is the only time that there's been a failing of this scale. Given, Director Wray, when you just said about the 16,000 arrests, we all know that the horror of child sexual abuse is tragically far more widespread in this country and around the world than any of us would like to see. So first. Mr. Horwitz, do you think there is still a pressing need? And who would be the appropriate entity to conduct that? And what if any advice do you have for us on respecting her request to this committee? Inspector General Michael Horowitz: It's a great question, Senator Coons. And, frankly, as you indicated, the reason we can do a report like this and other reports that we've been able to do is because of the statutory authorities that we've been given by the Congress that make us independent. And by the way, picking up on something Miss Raisman said, which was very perceptive, about who is funding the oversight, as you know, back in 2008, we were given an independent budget line so that our budget is not coming from the Justice Department, but is being set by an independent appropriator. I don't know, as I sit here, frankly, what the oversight mechanisms are currently on USOC and the other entities. But actually, one of the things I did have a chance to talk with Senator Blumenthal about during the break was the importance of given what I'd heard from these gymnast's, the very issue you just mentioned, which is thinking about what is the right independent oversight mechanism of those bodies, which are not just private entities, right? These are organizations that have been sanctioned by Congress to oversee our US athletes, and they need strong oversight as well and I'm happy to work with you as well Senator, and the committee, in thinking about how to do that because we are seeing the IG (Inspector General) model replicated in many places, as you know, across the country, including many state and local entities. 4:04:55 Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN): What steps are you taking to ensure that the agents communicate allegations of sexual assault with local law enforcement? FBI Director Christopher Wray: So we've enhanced our policies and procedures on the specific issue of reporting sake and local law enforcement built in. Now they have to document it, which they didn't have to before. And that builds in, as inspector general Horowitz referred to, an ability to hold them accountable. They have to alert their supervisors. So there's a second set of eyes. So that would help. We've also enhanced our training to make clear that it's mandatory and that's regardless of whether there's some question about potential federal jurisdiction. We can continue to investigate if we there's federal jurisdiction, but we have to do, on a parallel track, report to the appropriate state and local or, in some cases, social services agencies as well. 4:06:36 FBI Director Christopher Wray: So I appreciate the question. There are two pieces of this one. The Child Adolescent Forensic Interviewers (CAFIs), which again, is a very specific discipline that requires very specific sensitivities and skill sets. And we've changed our policies to reinforce the use of those interviewers for these kinds of cases. Second is our victim services division. And one of the things that we changed even before receiving inspector general Horowitz his report on my watch is to make clear that the victim services that we provide, which is a little bit different from the forensic interviewing part of it, but it's also very important to handling these survivors with the appropriate sensitivity, that that is triggered at any stage. There is not just a full investigation, but we're in when we're in the assessment or pre-assessment phase. It has to happen there too. 4:07:42 FBI Director Christopher Wray: The scale of this kind of criminality in the country, as reflected by the 18,000 investigations that we've had over the past five years and the 16,000 arrests that we with our partners have made over the last five years, I think goes to your question about resources. And I can assure you that if the Congress were to see fit to give us more resources for those programs, they would immediately be able to be put to good use. 4:12:15 Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CN): Jay Abbott lied to you. Why do you in the course of your investigation of his Miss Congo 18 United States Code 1001. People get prosecuted for making false statements when they applied to a bank, federally insured bank for a mortgage. And here is a federal agent, the former Special Agent in Charge of the Indianeapolis office making a material false statement to you. In your investigation, you refer that for criminal prosecution, did you not? Inspector General Michael Horowitz: That's correct. 4:42:30 Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA): Could you please elaborate on the nature of the discussions between Mr. Abbott and Mr. Penny, regarding potential employment for Mr. Abbott at institutions associated with USA Gymnastics or the US Olympic Committee? Inspector General Michael Horowitz: I can. They began, as I mentioned in a discussion that they had when they met at a bar in 2015, where Mr. Penny and Mr. Abbott discussed a future job opening, Head of Security at the US Olympic Committee, that Mr. Penny expected to occur. That initial discussion led to Mr. Abbott's interest in the position. And then there are ongoing discussions between the two of them, as we outlined in the report, in emails that we've seen, where Mr. Abbott expresses his interest in the job. And equally troubling, acknowledges that it would be inappropriate for him and a conflict of interest for him to pursue the position because of the ongoing Nassar investigation. Yet, as we found in 2017, that is precisely what he did in applying for the job, which he was never ultimately interviewed for. Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA): And who initiated the discussion about employment prospects? Was that an opportunity dangled by Mr. Penny? Or was it solicited by Mr. Abbott? Inspector General Michael Horowitz: That was an opportunity mentioned first by Mr. Penny, because of his understanding that there might be a future retirement or an upcoming retirement at the US Olympic Committee. Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA): So just to be clear, Mr. Penny, the Chief Executive at USA Gymnastics, while there is an ongoing FBI inquiry into gross misconduct, criminal activity and sexual abuse by at least one USA Gymnastics employee, raises with the Special Agent in Charge at the field office that is steering this investigation, the prospect of potentially lucrative and prestigious employment at a parallel organization where Mr. Penny may have influence. Is that correct? Inspector General Michael Horowitz: That's correct. And at the same time, writing in emails for example, how he's looking for additional information about the Nassar investigation and events as they occur. 4:46:06 Inspector General Michael Horowitz: The challenge on Mr. Abbott, with regard to the criminal issue here, which is 18 USC 208, which is the federal criminal statute is a, I think I mentioned this earlier, challenging one and that's being generous with speaking about how it's written to determine whether there was a criminal violation. The challenge here was, and I'm focused on the law here as to how 208 is because Mr. Abbott was looking for a job at the US Olympic Committee, and Mr. Penny was employed by the US Gymnastics Federation Association, two different entities, that situation is not clearly covered by 208. No matter how clear it would be to a layperson the interactions between those two entities. 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In this episode of Burn It All Down Brenda Elsey, Amira Rose Davis and Jessica Luther start the show with their favorite Met Gala looks. Then, prompted by the documentary LulaRich, they take a deep dive into the world of athleisure. They discuss the evolution of the athletic wear fashion, how multilevel marketing often (MLM) targets working class women with false promises, the politics of who gets to wear athleisure and how these apparel companies still have a long way to go in providing safe and fair working conditions. Following this discussion, there's a preview of Amira's interview with Dave Zirin about his new book “The Kaepernick Effect." Then, they burn the garbage in sports this week on the Burn Pile. Next, they celebrate those changing sports for the better, including Torchbearers of the Week, Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, McKayla Maroney and Maggie Nichols, for sharing their stories and testifying against Larry Nassar before the Senate. Then the wrap up the show with what's good in their lives and what they are watching in sports this week. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Over the course of the September 15, Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, gymnasts Aly Raisman, Maggie Nichols, McKayla Maroney and Simone Biles collectively asked one question: Why did the FBI, USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Center for Safe Sport fail to stop a known sexual predator?  On this episode, you will find out why these systems failed and what parents and supporters can do to address institutional failures. Sharing is a Good Thing!!! You know a parent, athlete or friend that can use the information in this episode, so go ahead, and social share the link... Don't forget to download this episode. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcast, Stitcher or your favorite platform. Tune into the Legally Brief Youtube channel. Visit jsaunderslawfirm.com for the free "Parent's Guide to Surviving Your Child's Abuse." Follow me on Instagram here. This podcast is for informational purposes only.  Nothing in this podcast is legal advice, counsel or guidance. No offer, statement or representation has been made to serve as your attorney in any capacity.   No attorney-client relationship has been created. This information is general and may not be applicable to your particular circumstances. You must review your particular circumstances with a licensed attorney. 

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The bravery of Aly Raisman, Simone Biles, Maggie Nichols, & McKayla Maroney should never be questioned again. These 4 American Gymnasts relived the horror. They spoke at a Senate Hearing this week. Listen to CJ commend the courage of victims who speak out, and condemn the actions of those who take advantage of their position. Thanks to all my partners: Dr. Daniel Lapidus & Larry Ackerman, Dr. Brad Kurgis of Kurgis Dermatology, California Fresh Markets, Rex Stevens @ The SLO Wellness Center, Costa de Oro Winery, Avila Bay Athletic Club & Spa, Joy of Shell Beach, & Michael Moore Sports Recovery.

Jim and Lisa react to the recent testimony at a Senate hearing where USA gymnasts Simone Biles, Mckayla Maroney, Aly Raisman and Maggie Nichols, vividly and emotionally recounted not only the sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of Larry Nassar, but also the failure of the FBI to investigate their repeated reports of his behavior. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Public Access America Sunday A.M #LiveStream Noon Eastern 9 A.M Pacific 11 A.M Central#New #Podcast #Episode #Free #BigBrainPodAly Raisman, Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney and Maggie Nichols testified before the Senate on the sexual abuse investigation involving the former U.S.A. gymnastics team doctor Lawrence G. Nassar. The gymnasts also received an apology from the F.B.I. director, Christopher A. Wray, for the handling of the case.Today I heard on the news four top gymnasts testified in Senate hearings. That 5 seconds given to this travesty did not do it justice, and upon listening to the testimony I learned that justice is all these four women wanted, not as much for themselves, but for the over 100 athletes Larry Nasser was allowed to abuse long after thecae was introduced, investigated, and eventually buried by the FBI. And those he might have gone on to attack.The hearing, this episode, begins quickly and starts with some opening statements from the four Gymnasts, superstars, and my new heroes. I don't need to write explanations of their grueling testimony, but I assure you, These statements, of the ordeal are gut wrenching and heart breaking. Simone Biles - “They knew I had been abused”McKayla Maroney - “FBI lies about what I said”Maggie Nichols - “Keep quiet and do nothing”Aly Raisman - “Stopping him should have been a priority”I urge you to listen to this episode. It is important that we spread light on their bravery for future amateur athletes, but for children and vulnerable people every where. Prisoner Nasser deserves nothing written about him from my perspective, but we should in a meaningful way. On future episodes discuss and inform more broadly, the predators process. Their way of speaking light was brave ass testimony. It will be our role at Public Access America to provide information that hopefully will help parents see warning signs, in their child as well as the trusted adults those children are around. As well to those predators and predators in waiting. To let them know. The urges are real but the actions you are contemplating are not! The answer for the thoughts you're having isn't to destroy precious souls, but to seek help from professionals. We will provide resources for you as well. I think this is the job of the more main stream media, but once the shine is off of this story, they will be on to something more dramatic. While we will incorporate this into our every day lives. Twitter @PublicAccessPodhttps://twitter.com/PublicAccessPodinstagram @PublicAccessAmericahttps://www.instagram.com/publicaccessamericaApple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/public-access-america/id1118000423?i=1000515737702Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/episode/589U8kzclmVd3Ny3Dyh3t2?si=q5AWhmzSRX23_AL4mI8JpgStitcherhttps://www.stitcher.com/show/public-access-americaRadioPublichttps://radiopublic.com/public-access-america-WPD3XRAmazonMusichttps://music.amazon.com/podcasts/36eeac72-ca73-46c1-8213-64cbd4cc6014/Public-Access-AmericaRedCirclehttps://redcircle.com/shows/public-access-americaSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/public-access-america/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Elite American gymnasts Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, McKayla Maroney and Maggie Nichols testified Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the FBI's failures to investigate 2015 sexual abuse allegations against disgraced former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar. Washington Post columnist Phil Bump joins Chris   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's word of the day is ‘deep throat' as in Watergate as in sources source sources as in on Thursday morning was a funny day. Mets owner Steve Cohen accused us of being a source in a story in the New York Post. LOL. We don't do sources. If we say it, we put our name on it. (7:20) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me about the lawsuit agains the NFL and Stan Kroenke a big deal. Could Roger Goodell be grilled by questions in open court? Let me explain. (17:15) Shohei Ohtani has arm soreness. Shohei Ohtani needs to stop pitching. Shohei Ohtani is an electric player, but he needs to be protected. (24:00) Review: The Voyeurs. (28:25) Aly Raisman, Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Maggie Nichols all spoke on Capitol Hill about how disturbing the treatment was from the FBI. The FBI let these women down. The US Olympic Committee let these women down. These people should be in jail for how much they let these women down. (33:35) NPPOD (37:30) John Wall is still owed $91M over the next two seasons. The Houston Rockets are going to trade him. They said it, not me. Why do front offices always spin it like they're helping the player? (44:20) Feel good story time: Christian Yelich bought 10,000 tickets for fans to attend a Milwaukee Brewers game. There still are good people in sports and Yelich is one of them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aly Raisman, McKayla Maroney, Simone Biles, and Maggie Nichols give powerful testimony in DC about corruption in the FBI and the USA Gymnastics that allowed for over 70 children being victimized after their outcry. A 15 year old murders a jogger for fun. A state representative attempts to smuggle a handcuff key into custody. Updates on Gabby Petito's disappearance and Attorney Alex Murdaugh.

Hey!   It's another heavy episode of The GIST of It. After American superstar gymnasts Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman and Maggie Nichols testified before the US Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, hosts Steph and Ellen are diving into why they did it, what they said, and what it could mean for the future of amateur sport.   Today's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. The GIST has partnered with FanDuel to create a judgement-free fantasy contest, open to all sports fans. Get in on the action by heading to fanduel.com/gist to play. Good luck!   Show notes:   McKayla Maroney's opening statement (text)   More on The GIST:  Subscribe: thegistsports.com/subscribepod Twitter: @thegistpod Email: pod@thegistsports.com  IG: @thegistca @thegistusa 

Senate Hearing Highlights FBI mishandling of Gymnasts Abuse Claims On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate held a hearing to examine the extent to which the FBI mishandled its investigation into the sexual abuse committed by Larry Nassar against hundreds of gymnasts while he was a physician for the women's national gymnastics team. Several of the most accomplished gymnasts who were abused by Nassar testified at the hearing, including Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Maggie Nichols and Aly Raisman. We speak with Rachael Denhollander, a former gymnast who was the first to publicly come forward against Larry Nassar. What Constitutes An Apology to Survivors of Sexual Abuse? On Wednesday, FBI director Christopher Wray apologized to the survivors of former USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar's abuse, saying that he is sorry members of his agency didn't do more to stop Nassar when they had a chance. Officials at the highest levels of our government don't issue apologies often, but to survivors of abuse, Wray's words may feel hollow. Beyond saying sorry, what has the FBI actually done to hold itself accountable after its mishandling of the Nassar case? We speak with playwright and author V (formerly known as Eve Ensler) about what truly constitutes an apology to survivors of abuse. What Deepfake Technology Means for Women Countless deepfake apps and platforms have emerged that essentially allow users to make nonconsensual porn videos of women with little to zero coding skills. This technology can do everything from “stripping” the clothes off of women to face-swapping a female celebrity's face onto a porn actor's body. For more on this, The Takeaway spoke to Rebecca Delfino, law professor at LMU Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, and Karen Hao , the senior AI editor at MIT Technology Review.  Slice of Life.  From the mundane to the profound, we're compiling your responses and sharing them with the world. Listen below. Slice of Life- 09/16/21   For transcripts, see individual segment pages. 

We're gathered here on these interwebs to celebrate the life of Felix's dearly departed Prius (0:01). The guys also dedicate their Cousins of the Week to the brave women of the U.S. Gymnastics Team (12:10). They remember the lives of Michael K. Williams and Norm Macdonald, and are reminded to be kind to people (36:40). The Boyz drop a new NFL segment called Cap Or No Cap (47:02). Lastly, the homies go deep into the Disney + Marvel animated show What If...?, and talk about the amazing Spiderman: No Way Home trailer (1:10:30).https://wn2tpod.buzzsprout.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/wn2tpodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/wn2tpodTwitter: https://twitter.com/wn2tpod

Senate Hearing Highlights FBI mishandling of Gymnasts Abuse Claims On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate held a hearing to examine the extent to which the FBI mishandled its investigation into the sexual abuse committed by Larry Nassar against hundreds of gymnasts while he was a physician for the women's national gymnastics team. Several of the most accomplished gymnasts who were abused by Nassar testified at the hearing, including Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Maggie Nichols and Aly Raisman. We speak with Rachael Denhollander, a former gymnast who was the first to publicly come forward against Larry Nassar. What Constitutes An Apology to Survivors of Sexual Abuse? On Wednesday, FBI director Christopher Wray apologized to the survivors of former USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar's abuse, saying that he is sorry members of his agency didn't do more to stop Nassar when they had a chance. Officials at the highest levels of our government don't issue apologies often, but to survivors of abuse, Wray's words may feel hollow. Beyond saying sorry, what has the FBI actually done to hold itself accountable after its mishandling of the Nassar case? We speak with playwright and author V (formerly known as Eve Ensler) about what truly constitutes an apology to survivors of abuse. What Deepfake Technology Means for Women Countless deepfake apps and platforms have emerged that essentially allow users to make nonconsensual porn videos of women with little to zero coding skills. This technology can do everything from “stripping” the clothes off of women to face-swapping a female celebrity's face onto a porn actor's body. For more on this, The Takeaway spoke to Rebecca Delfino, law professor at LMU Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, and Karen Hao , the senior AI editor at MIT Technology Review.  Slice of Life.  From the mundane to the profound, we're compiling your responses and sharing them with the world. Listen below. Slice of Life- 09/16/21   For transcripts, see individual segment pages. 

Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM.  Acclaimed gymnasts who were abused by former physician Larry Nassar testified yesterday in a powerful Senate hearing. Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Maggie Nichols and Aly Raisman all accused the FBI of botching its investigation into allegations against Nassar and called out intimidation by the sport's governing bodies. President Biden and the UK government will work together on an effort to help Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines to try to counter Beijing's influence in the region. Nicholas hurricane continues dumping rain on the South. The booster-shot debate heats up.

North Korea launched a couple ballistic missiles – perhaps to show they're still there – but the real focus is on Kim Jong-un's weight loss. Amid rumors of severe illness, and possible death, North Korea maintained that Kim Jong-un was alive and well while his sister Kim Yo-jong handled the “family business.” Now, with a healthier look and slimmer physique, the questions are: was there an illness causing the need for weight loss . . . and . . . is this a doppelganger? In other news, Space X launched their first all-tourist crew into orbit which included a passenger who suffered from child cancer and was treated by Saint Jude and is now a therapist with Saint Jude's Children's Hospital. Plus a discussion on the FBI's handling of the Larry Nassar abuse reporting and subsequent hearing with Team USA gymnasts Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, McKayla Maroney and Maggie Nichols. This and more from today's hot topics in the news. Follow us @DJVShow on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.Djvshow.com

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday heard testimony from four elite U.S. gymnasts about the FBI's mishandling of sexual abuse allegations against former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar. Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, McKayla Maroney and Maggie Nichols criticized the agency and pressed lawmakers to demand further accountability for those they enabled Nassar. Amna Nawaz reports. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Why do we need innovative disruption? Mike Sipple Jr's guest on the Talent Magnet Leadership Podcast, Maggie Nichols, dives deep into this topic in this week's episode. Maggie is the CEO and President of Eureka! Ranch. She also leads the team at The Innovation Engineering Institute and helps C-level executives around the world guide their employees through innovation. This is a must listen conversation where Maggie explains the need for innovative disruption in our organizations, and creating a culture of trust where leaders allow employees to lead their own projects. Disruptive innovation is anything that wreaks havoc in a place - especially in a new market - and changes the current way of operating. It shakes things up, and that may either excite or terrify you. Disruptive innovation is what's needed to make a change in today's society. [2:19] What are we doing as leaders to bring value to our customers and impact their lives? What are we doing that has never been done before? Disruption in innovation has to be purposeful disruption. [3:33] The real challenge of disruption is making it happen. The work that is going to make a maximum impact is fixing the system in which you work. To allow for disruption, leaders need to create the energy source for change. Maggie shares the secret trick to making this happen. [6:02] Maggie dives deep into the three ingredients for cultivating a culture that's both learning and innovation based. [7:41] In order to create change, we need a reason for change. We need cool ideas to give us a reason to ‘walk the talk'. [10:33] Give some direction about where you want the conversation to go in a brainstorming event with your team. Open the floodgates but channel it correctly, and you'll get many amazing ideas. [11:55] When an employee says they have an idea, do they know what to do next? If you can't answer that question, or five different employees give five different answers, you don't have a system for ideas. You may be unintentionally squashing innovation that could really help your business. [15:26] The best job of a leader is to identify “death threats”. These are the hindrances to company projects, and the issues that will “kill” the projects so to speak. Rather than solving these issues for their employees, leaders should be good at identifying these issues and giving the reins to employees to come up with ways to resolve those issues themselves. [18:40] Maggie helps Mike understand the six types of employee stimuli. [23:35] To make a real idea happen, we need collaboration. Collaboration through diversity is an exponential lift for the business because it allows for a multitude of different perspectives. The more diverse, the better. [29:46] Resources Mike Sipple Jr. | LinkedIn | Twitter Maggie Nichols | LinkedIn | Twitter  Eureka! Ranch

..In occasione degli ottant'anni di Irene Schweizer è stato reso disponibile in inglese un ampio e accurato volume sulla pianista svizzera scritto da Christian Broecking e in precedenza pubblicato in tedesco: in gran parte basato su interviste realizzate dall'autore con la Schweizer e con numerosi musicisti, operatori del settore, persone che hanno avuto a che fare con lei, This Uncontainable Feeling of Freedom - European Jazz and the Politics of Improvisation offre un eccellente ritratto della Schweizer e intorno a lei racconta con vivacità il mondo dell'improvvisazione europea in particolare negli anni ruggenti della free music del vecchio continente. Fin dall'adolescenza Irene Schweizer ha suonato anche la batteria, e non è un caso che nella sua discografia abbondino i duo piano-batteria: fra i primi titoli con cui la Schweizer è presente nel catalogo Intakt diversi sono appunto duo con batteristi, come quello con Han Bennink (numero di catalogo 010). Dalla metà degli anni settanta Irene Schweizer è stata attiva nel movimento delle donne, e assieme ad altre musiciste ha fatto parte del Feminist Improvising Group, un gruppo sperimentale nato nel '77: negli anni novanta poi Irene Schweizer, Maggie Nichols e Joelle Leandre hanno dato vita ad un'altra formazione tutta al femminile, il trio Les Diaboliques, di cui la intakt nel '94 ha pubblicato il primo album (numero di catalogo 033).

..In occasione degli ottant'anni di Irene Schweizer è stato reso disponibile in inglese un ampio e accurato volume sulla pianista svizzera scritto da Christian Broecking e in precedenza pubblicato in tedesco: in gran parte basato su interviste realizzate dall'autore con la Schweizer e con numerosi musicisti, operatori del settore, persone che hanno avuto a che fare con lei, This Uncontainable Feeling of Freedom - European Jazz and the Politics of Improvisation offre un eccellente ritratto della Schweizer e intorno a lei racconta con vivacità il mondo dell'improvvisazione europea in particolare negli anni ruggenti della free music del vecchio continente. Fin dall'adolescenza Irene Schweizer ha suonato anche la batteria, e non è un caso che nella sua discografia abbondino i duo piano-batteria: fra i primi titoli con cui la Schweizer è presente nel catalogo Intakt diversi sono appunto duo con batteristi, come quello con Han Bennink (numero di catalogo 010). Dalla metà degli anni settanta Irene Schweizer è stata attiva nel movimento delle donne, e assieme ad altre musiciste ha fatto parte del Feminist Improvising Group, un gruppo sperimentale nato nel '77: negli anni novanta poi Irene Schweizer, Maggie Nichols e Joelle Leandre hanno dato vita ad un'altra formazione tutta al femminile, il trio Les Diaboliques, di cui la intakt nel '94 ha pubblicato il primo album (numero di catalogo 033).

ATHLETE A is a documentary following the Indianapolis Star reporters who broke the story, in 2016, about USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar's decades of abuse of female gymnasts. The movie contains interviews from survivors like gymnast Maggie Nichols and former gymnasts who came forward about Nassar's abuse and the abusive culture within competitive gymnastics. “Athlete A” refers to the then-anonymous tipper, Maggie Nichols, which led to the first public disclosure of Nassar's sexual abuse of female gymnasts. Moreover, the documentary reveals the abusive culture of USA Gymnastics and their goal of protecting their brand rather than the girls.

Maggie Nichols is the CEO of Eureka! Ranch, a think tank and training company dedicated to helping organizations create inventive ideas. This episode is for creators and inventors alike who seek to discover their next greatest idea and execute it effectively. Visit the Eureka! Ranch website to find out more about what Maggie and her team are up to | https://eurekaranch.comCommit ActionCommit Action pairs you with a dedicated coach to act as your second brain, helping you to break down big goals, prioritize, and execute consistently.A lot of their reviews on TrustPilot describe Commit Action as literally life changing.As an Unmistakable Creative listener you'll get $100 off your first month of coaching when you use creative100 at checkout.So if you want to become a productivity powerhouse then go to www.CommitAction.com and give it a try.Listener TribeWe have our own private social network for listeners of the Unmistakable Creative podcast. You can meet other listeners, discuss episodes, and engage with the creative community! Just visit https://the-unmistakable-creative-podcast.mn.co/ to sign up. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

ORMe Wed, 19 Aug 2020 09:00:00 GMT RSI - Radiotelevisione svizzera false no Maggie Nichols, col suo coraggio, ha scoperchiato un vaso di Pandora. Reiterati abusi – fisici, psicologici e sessuali – sono stati inflitti ad un numero impressionante di giovani ginnaste americane negli ultimi tre decenni. Ma prima di lei un'altra atleta aveva rotto il silenzio denunciando le m

Dos documentales y una ficción: “Mucho Mucho Amor: La leyenda de Walter Mercado”, “Desplazados” y “Atleta A”, son los protagonistas de esta conversación de sobremesa. Para hablar del famoso astrólogo, invitamos a Kareem Tabsh, co-director del documental, y a Dominique Peralta, que además de ser una personalidad radiofónica es astróloga.Después Luis Pablo Beauregard y Trino Camacho le explican a Mariana Linares porque vale la pena ver Desplazados, la nueva miniserie sobre refugiados creada por la actriz y activista Cate Blanchett. Y recomiendan Atleta A, documental sobre los escandalosos abusos sexuales de Larry Nassar a más de 300 atletas olímpicas de Estados Unidos, y sobre cómo la investigación periodística se sumó a la lucha por justicia de las víctimas en este caso tan importante.

In this episode Chelsea is joined by her husband again to recap Netflix's Athlete A. They couldn't believe how the entire system failed the over 500 victims in reporting Larry Nassar. Join them as they discuss all things Maggie Nichols and also their thoughts on the first black Bachelor!

Trigger Warning for this one. Cara and Jamie review the documentary recently released on Netflix. This is a crazy story and almost unbelievable that this could happen to so many girls with no one intervening. Join us and share your views on Facebook.

Meg McDonald sits down with Maggie Nichols

OU women's gymnastics star Maggie Nichols joined James Hale and Josh Helmer on Total Sports to discuss her thoughts on the Netflix documentary "Athlete A".

Club Gym Nerd members can watch the podcast being recorded (pre-edits with all the flubs and hiccups) and see video of the routines we discuss. THIS WEEK'S INTERVIEW Jennifer Sey became the US national champion in 1986, just seven months after breaking her femur at the 1985 world championships, an injury that led to a change in rules about bars spotting. In 2008, she published her groundbreaking memoir Chalked Up and has since been an advocate for survivors and those fighting against abuse in gymnastics. She produced the documentary Athlete A about the failures of USA Gymnastics to deal with the criminal ex-doctor, which premieres on Netflix this week. We talked with her about what she hopes the general public learns about gymnastics culture from the film, whether the Maggie Haney suspension represents progress or not, why watching Kerri Strug vault in 1996 didn't feel like a glorious moment to her, and balancing the horror of Athlete A with hope by focusing on the triumphs of Maggie Nichols, Rachael Denhollander, Jamie Dantzscher, and the Indy Star journalists. Related Reading: Jen Sey's Op-Ed in the New York Times: How Gymnastics Culture Breeds Sexual Abuse   Why Not Being Racist is Not Enough  Chalked Up by Jennifer Sey Athlete A trailer  GYMTERNET NEWS A vital episode dedication to Natalia Frolova URGENT: An email from someone who coached at the Karolyi summer camps Feedback on the John Orozco interview and Kensley's response Seattle Pacific eliminates its gymnastics program Major dumpster fire developments in bankruptcy court Germany (kind of?) did a gymnastics over the weekend Simone did a triple double off beam and we need to talk about it JOIN CLUB GYM NERD Join Club Gym Nerd for access to Behind the Scenes episodes. Buy our awesome clothing and gifts here. We have masks too! RELATED EPISODES Behind The Scenes: Laurie Hernandez Interview 187: McKayla Maroney Episode 28: Kristen Maloney 420: Jamie Dantzscher Aimee Boorman and Maggie Haney: The Olympic Experience Aimee & Maggie Extended Interview Episode 41: Laurie Hernandez & Coach Maggie Haney 423: Little Dumpster Fires Everywhere 422: Stick It (Commissioned) 420: Jamie Dantzscher 277.5: McKayla Maroney Alleges Abuse from Nassar 429: John Orozco Does Not Hold Back 428: Black Lives Matter This Week Too 427: The Gymnast Who Kneeled During The National Anthem 426: Body Roll Abomination 425: GymCastic Fixes Judging (Commission) 424 Emotional Abuse: The Maggie Haney Eight Year Ban

A special edition of the Unofficial 40 podcast as Carey and Eddie are joined by the Oklahoman's Ryan Aber and the Athletic's Jason Kersey to have a little beat writer discussion about dealing with covering a college athletic program during a pandemic. Aber and Kersey are no strangers to the Unofficial 40 so it was a pleasure to welcome them back on the show to talk about all things OU, including all of our thoughts on what football might look like when it's played again, the upcoming NFL Draft and what we're all doing to pass the time while quarantined at home. Just a little extra Unofficial 40 for you to enjoy while you are stuck at home. The full rundown follows below: OPEN - Jason Kersey comes out firing 0:05:00 - People seem to be handling this thing well on a social media perspective 0:10:00 - Most shocking moments or decisions made throughout this pandemic 0:17:45 - Could media members handle being quarantined along with players if it comes to that? 0:30:00 - Recent developments that affect where we are and where we're headed 0:35:00 - How is this going to change athletic departments moving forward? 0:43:55 - Facilities development will really take a big hit 0:50:25 - Gabe Brkic getting some love on this podcast 0:55:00 - What we might have seen this spring with Aber/Kersey 1:07:00 - Maggie Nichols got messed over more than anyone with the cancellation of spring 1:14:00 - NFL Draft coming up this week 1:24:40 - The Last Dance documentary 1:32:00 - Streaming recommendations

This week on Chalk Talk, McKenna and Taylor are chatting all about the quarantine, the end of the NCAA season, potential eligibility for athletes from this season, and updates on the Tokyo Olympics. Then, the one and only Maggie Nichols joins in to give us insight on the abrupt end of her career, obstacles she had to overcome to become one of the most successful NCAA gymnasts in history, if she would return for another year if granted eligibility, what's next for her (assuming gymnastics is over), her approach to each apparatus, and answering some listener questions! You don't want to miss this!

AMERICAN CUP It's happening! This Saturday! Russia has withdrawn from the competition for...murky reasons that may or may not be related to viruses. Do we have multiple conspiracy theories about it? YOU BETCHA. What we're looking forward to seeing from Morgan Hurd and Kayla DiCello—and who's more likely to win Other people who could legitimately win, like Ellie Black and Giorgia Villa Our Must-Watch Athlete of the meet: Jennifer Gadirova What Nikita Nagornyy's absence means for Sam Mikulak and the US men's hopes of an extra Olympic spot What are we going to see from Oleg Verniaiev? Only his glass shoulder and legs made of hope can tell. Gymnix and Jesolo team updates. Watch Gymnix here GYMTERNET NEWS Laurie Hernandez is not attending US women's camp but still plans to compete later in the year Simone had some THOUGHTS about USAG and USOPC's latest stonewalling John Orozco officially changed his FIG license from the US to Puerto Rico! Former CMU coach Jerry Reighard is suing ESPN, which seems productive Simone threw an axe for a bullseye, because of course she did Cassie Rice and Tasha Schwikert gave HARROWING accounts of their time in the elite world, including how Bela ripped Tasha's hamstring off the bone during the 2000 Olympics after by pushing her down in a split. A must-watch. NCAA news: the latest rankings, Nia Dennis's viral routine, Maggie Nichols being fine now (?), and the broken bars at Alabama BECOME A CLUB GYM NERD MEMBER Join Club Gym Nerd here for access to our Behind the Scenes episodes! Buy our awesome clothing and gifts here. RELATED EPISODES 413: Is Jade Carey an Olympian Yet Behind The Scenes: Jade Carey, Grace McCallum, Kayla DiCello and Lilly Lippeatt Interviews 412: The Fall That Wasn't 411: Take Off on Gay, Split on Rights 410: Simone's Vault to the Rescue

McKenna and Taylor are breaking down all the crazy NCAA action from this past week. Utah vs UCLA, Florida clinching SEC regular season, Oklahoma without Maggie Nichols, the first ever 10 in a leadoff spot, and McKenna breaks down the different technicalities and deductions on vault. Then, former LSU gymnast and current Penn State assistant coach, Ashleigh Gnat, joins to discuss her time in NCAA competition, transition to coaching, differences in Big 10 and SEC and the current Penn State team. Don't miss it!

MEN'S PROGRAM OOOPSIES (3:24) Between the all-around results mix-up and the World Cup...reassignments...the US men's program had quite the controversial week at Winter Cup. Kensley breaks it all down, with statements from USAG about both issues. USAG awarded the all-around medals to the wrong people. Great job. Yul Moldauer was under the impression he had 3 world cup assignments. Turns out, nope. We discuss the problems of miscommunication and having UNWRITTEN selection procedures for squads that have already been selected and meets that have already happened. How do we make sure things like this don't happen again? Live Blog: 2020 Winter Cup - Day 2 Live Blog: 2020 Winter Cup - Day 1 RAGE-O-METER (46:22) Details on the unacceptable "deal" USAG proposed to survivors, including four tiers of settlement money based on famousness and the release of Steve Penny, Marta, Don Peters, John Geddert, All-Olympia and others from all future claims W. T. (and we cannot stress this enough) F. Jessica has some choice feelings about it. MELBOURNE WORLD CUP OLYMPIC QUALIFIER (52:49) The 6th of 8 Olympic apparatus qualifiers has concluded in Melbourne. We answer pressing questions like Is Jade Carey an Olympian yet? Are we emotionally stable enough to talk about what happened on high bar and the latest developments in Japanese Gymnastics Jail? Could the US men actually earn an Olympic spot this way? Does Gymnastics Australia have it together? (Nope) Why is Jessica more interested in Tampax than in the results? PLUS... Winter Cup—actual gymnastics part! We discuss improvements on USAGs part (what?), some interesting decisions about who made national team especially re: Alec Yoder, Gage Dyer's floor, Spencer's favorite Winter Cuppy moments, and what it means now for athletes who didn't make national team. Women's NCAA news (1:29:18) Spencer is soooooo glad we had so much other stuff to talk about that we didn't have much time to discuss the scoring at UCLA/Utah because he physically cannot. Historic lead-iff 10 finally happened. Grace Glen got a 10 as the first person up on beam. Maggie Nichols is injured, Michigan set a program record, and why we need receipts! SUPPORT THE SHOW Join Club Gym Nerd here for access to our Behind the Scenes episodes! Buy our awesome clothing and gifts here. Club Gym Nerd Podcasts include: Behind The Scenes: National Team Training Camp: Jade Carey, Grace McCallum, Kayla DiCello, Lilly Lippeat Interviews Behind The Scenes: National Team Training Camp – Day 3 Laurie Hernandez Interview Behind The Scenes: National Team Training Camp – Day 2 Simone Biles Interview Behind The Scenes: National Team Training Camp – Day 1 Behind The Scenes: Journalism Spy Training, Thanksgiving, a Podcast Operations Q&A Behind The Scenes: Yulo, Cats & Musicals  Behind The Scenes: Halloween Edition Stuttgart: Behind The Scenes Aimee & Maggie Extended Interview Video: Live Show with Kennedy Baker   RELATED EPISODES 412: The Fall That Wasn't 411: Take Off on Gay, Split on Rights 410: Simone's Vault to the Rescue 409: Falling with Style 408: Jessica Goes to Camp

Our best NCAA gymnastics commentator, best gymnastics teacher, Olympic medalist and mom to every gymnast Kathy Johnson Clark spends time talking with us. Kathy shares what her goals are as a commentator, her thoughts on the growth of women's college gymnastics, and what it's like to work with the crew of ESPN's "Friday Night Heights." Continue the conversation with us! Do you think Maggie Nichols or Kyla Ross will break the NCAA gymnastics 10.0 record? Both? Let us know!

Jade Degouveia and Maggie Nichols swing by to recap the National Title... Plus Assistant Coaches Tom Haley and Lou Ball and Gym SID Lindey Morrison

The final four teams advanced for tonight's Nationals Championship - UCLA and LSU from session one and Oklahoma and Denver from session two.  Plus, Maggie Nichols is crowned as All-Around champion.  On today's episode of The Routine Podcast: Gymnastics Conversations, we share highlights from our trip so far, (including our small travel mishap) and give our predictions for who we think will take home the big trophy.  There's still time to give us your predictions - let us know who you think will win.  Plus, share your favorites from yesterday's full day of gymnastics. Tweet us, email us, or leave us a voicemail. MyKayla Skinner Article Music: Royalty Free Music: www.soundotcom.com

Former USA Gymnastics team physician Larry Nassar abused hundreds of young gymnasts under the guise of medical treatment. Maggie Nichols was one of them and was the first to report his improprieties to USA Gymnastics. Now a star at Oklahoma, Nichols publicly identified herself as one of his victims last year in hopes of helping others who have faced similar trauma. Jack Ford with Nichols, the 2019 NCAA Inspiration Award winner.

On Jan. 9, 2018, Maggie Nichols released a statement informing the world that she, too, had been sexually assaulted by former USA Gymnastics team physician Larry Nassar. She also let the world know that she was the one who had been identified only as “Athlete A” in the reports of Nassar’s actions, which he inflicted under the guise of medical treatment on more than 300 victims. She did it to let everyone know that he did not do this to Athlete A, he did it to Maggie Nichols. Maggie Nichols did this for all young girls who approach her for photos or autographs whenever she appears in public. She did it for the strangers who also were victims of abuse and feel ashamed, not empowered. From the time she was 3, Maggie Nichols spent countless hours in the gym to shape herself into a world-class gymnast. Maggie missed time with friends and holidays with family to pursue that dream. But with all this training come injuries, Maggie knew about injuries as she had to deal with a lot of injuries throughout her career. But one injury brought her under the care of Dr. Larry Nassar. Listen as Maggie tells her story. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/linklete/support

On today's episode of The Routine Podcast: Gymnastics Conversations, we travel to the University of Oklahoma for one of the most anticipated meets of the regular season, Oklahoma vs UCLA. We share our experience from the meet including post meet interviews from Maggie Nichols, Brenna Dowell, and Head Coach KJ Kindler. Continue the conversation with us! What were some of your favorite moments from the Oklahoma vs UCLA meet? Let us know! Tweet us, email us, or leave us a voicemail. Anastasia Webb Floor Music: Royalty Free Music: www.soundotcom.com

Oklahoma will face-off against UCLA for the first time since finishing runner-up to them at last years NCAA Gymnastics Championships. Maggie Nichols, Kyla Ross, and Katelyn Ohashi are ready to put on a show. It is going to be a competition for the ages. Yul Moldauer and Sam Mikulak are set to compete at American Cup on Saturday in Greensboro, North Carolina. Sean Melton is back on the senior national team.

Welcome back to Season 2 of the I Have Cool Friends podcast! Sam welcomes to the podcast collegiate gymnast, Maggie Nichols. Maggie is a junior at the University of Oklahoma and has already accomplished so much in her gymnastics career. Maggie won a gold medal with the American team and an individual bronze medal on floor exercise at the 2015 World Championships. Maggie has also earned five NCAA championship titles, including one team and four individual and she is the only gymnast in Oklahoma’s history to achieve a perfect 10 on all four events. In addition to these incredible feats, she received the first and only perfect 10 from the first meet of the 2019 NCAA season! Maggie is well-known for her motivational messages on social media and uplifting personality, which have contributed to her being an amazing teammate and friend.   In this episode, Sam and Maggie talk all about college gymnastics and its importance to the overall sport today. From the perspective of two gymnasts who trained at both the Elite and collegiate levels, Maggie and Sam both understand the hard work and dedication necessary to achieve gymnastics greatness. Maggie walks Sam through her time at the University of Oklahoma, from their emotional second place finish in last year’s NCAA Championship to the new crop of freshman gymnasts they have this year. Maggie describes how she transitioned to the college scene with such grace and flawlessness. She talks about her coaches and the messages they relay to the team before and after every meet. Finally, Maggie gives her predictions of which teams she believes will be the Final Four on the Floor and shares one piece of advice that college gymnasts can utilize to get better every day. Full show notes: http://ihavecoolfriends.show/s2e2

Welcome to Season 2 of the I Have Cool Friends Podcast! 2018 was such a special year, as Sam details in the opening of this episode. The podcast has already surpassed 100,000 downloads spanning 100 different countries and is the number one podcast in the college and high school sports category! It recently broke into and top 100 in the overall general sports category, as well. Today, Sam welcomes back recurring guest, Bridget Sloan. Bridget was one of Sam’s former teammates from the 2008 Olympics and is currently an analyst for ESPN’s SEC Network. Bridget’s gymnastics accomplishments include nine-time NCAA champion with The University of Florida, 2008 Olympic silver medalist, and 2009 World Champion in the all-around. In this episode, Sam and Bridget recap the 2018 NCAA Gymnastics season from UCLA’s dominant season, to individual champions, including Maggie Nichols, Mykayla Skinner, and Christine Peng-Peng Lee. Bridget and Sam talk about their roles as gymnastics analysts for the SEC and PAC12 networks, respectively. They discuss the state of collegiate gymnastics and the new postseason format for the 2019 season. Sam and Bridget also break down the top twelve teams from this past season and analyze their potential for the upcoming season. Everything from recruiting classes to players graduated, to new coaches is discussed in this jam-packed episode. Finally, Bridget shares one piece of advice that college gymnasts can utilize to get better every day. Full show notes: http://ihavecoolfriends.show/s2e1

INSPIRATION NEWS (1:58:00) We're going to Tokyo! Rachael Denhollander and Maggie Nichols are inspirations (duh) Simone is dominant (also duh)  ROPES & GRAY (9:10:00) The Ropes and Gray Investigation released its report What we learned about Scott Blackmun and Alan Ashley Nassar's unsatisfactory score in 2012 and unpacking Martha's not wanting "the gymnasts to be with the boxers" comment The FBI...what were you even doing? Kathy Kelly and Renee Jamison were in charge of handling abuse reports...so nope THEY KEPT THE RECORDS IN A BARN What do we do with this information? What was the point? What do we need now? GYMTERNET 2018 – A Year In Review (1:08:46) The GymCastic Indictment Draft – As we review the events of the year that was, yell DRAFT every time you want to put someone (or something, or a concept) on your all-indictment fantasy list BRING ON 2019 (1:37:07) New seniors we're too excited about (ITALY) Giorgia Villa - Youth Olympic Games Champ - Bars Elisa Iorio - Bars  D’Amato twins, Asia and Alice - Asia Floor Ksenia Klimenko (Russia) - Bars Anastasiya Bachynska (Ukraine) - Beam, Floor Qi Qi (China) - Beam Tang Xijing (China) - 4th AA at Youth Olympics - Floor Amelie Morgan (Great Britain) - 2nd AA at Youth Olympics - Floor Emma Slevin (Ireland) - Bars All the elites heading to college competition in 2019. Next time we meet, the college season will have started!  (1:43:25) Marz Frazier and Norah Flatley (UCLA) Trinity Thomas, Sydney Johnson-Scharpf, Leah Clapper (Florida) Emily Gaskins (Alabama) Alexis Vasquez (Denver , another Chow-baby in college!) Olivia Trautman (Oklahoma) Bailey Ferrer (LSU) Molly Frack (Auburn) Grace Quinn (Cal) International Elites in the college: Canada: Shallon Olsen (Alabama), Megan Roberts (Georgia), Madeline McLellan, Meaghan Ruttan (Washington), Meixi Semple (Iowa State) Great Britain: Abi Solari (Cal), Phoebe Turner (Iowa State) Spain: Ana Palacios (Iowa State) Czech Republic: Anna-Maria Kanyai (Bowling Green), 2014 world  Study proves adult gymnastics is the foundation of youth :  "People in their 70s who have been exercising regularly for decades seem to have put a brake on the aging process, maintaining the heart, lung and muscle fitness of healthy people at least 30 years younger... As for muscle health, the findings were even more significant... researchers were surprised to find the 75-year-old muscles of lifelong exercisers were about the same as the muscles of the 25-year-olds." SUPPORT THE SHOW Join Club Gym Nerd here. Buy our awesome clothing and gifts here. 2018 GymCastic Gift Guide FURTHER READING 2019 Preview – Pac-12 Roundup 2019 Preview – SEC Roundup 2019 Preview – Alabama Crimson Tide 2019 Preview – Georgia Bulldogs 2019 Preview – LSU Tigers Things Are Happening – December 11, 2018 RELATED EPISODES 344: Shushunova vs. Silivas 1988 (Commissioned) 343: The Andrade Cup & the Dumpster Fire of Lies 342: A Quitter's Try – The CNN Parkettes Documentary (Commissioned) 341: The Call Is Coming from Inside the House 340: USAG and The Case of the Missing Documents 329: Steve Penny Arrested & Doha Worlds Preview 307: SHAME – Congressional Hearings Edition 277.5: McKayla Maroney Alleges Abuse from Nassar Episode 56: Preventing Abuse in Gymnastics 187: McKayla Maroney 319: Aly and Lynn Raisman 322: Mary Lee Tracy Truth & Reconciliation  

Maggie Nichols: a 5x NCAA National Champion Gymnast for the University of Oklahoma. She also was a part of the United States National Team that won the 2015 World Championship. She was "Athlete A" in the Larry Nassar case that affected over 150 women. In this Sermon Series episode we look at how Maggie Overcame Life's Most Difficult Obstacles in life and the struggles she's been through. If you know anyone who has gone through abuse in any kind. We would encourage you to share this podcast with them.Support the show (https://victoryfamily.church/give/)

Bake, Maggie, and BrennaHear from the newest member of the Cleveland Browns and the first pick in the NFL Draft, Baker Mayfield. We take you exclusively to Bakers watch party to hear from the former Sooner immediately after he was drafted.Plus we celebrate the incredible season for Maggie Nichols and Brenna Dowell. It's all on this weeks Game Plan on the Sooner Sports Podcast

This episode contains audio from Day 2 Part 1 of the Sentencing Hearing of Larry Nassar, the 54-year-old USA Gymnastics team osteopathic physician and convicted child molester. This testimony, from January 17 2018, includes impact statements from the following gymnast-victims: Gina Nichols (on behalf of her daughter, Maggie Nichols); Tiffany Thomas-Lopez; Jeanette Antolin; Amanda Thomashow; […]

This episode contains audio from Day 2 Part 1 of the Sentencing Hearing of Larry Nassar, the 54-year-old USA Gymnastics team osteopathic physician and convicted child molester. This testimony, from January 17 2018, includes impact statements from the following gymnast-victims: Gina Nichols (on behalf of her daughter, Maggie Nichols); Tiffany Thomas-Lopez; Jeanette Antolin; Amanda Thomashow; […]

This episode contains audio from Day 2 Part 1 of the Sentencing Hearing of Larry Nassar, the 54-year-old USA Gymnastics team osteopathic physician and convicted child molester. This testimony, from January 17 2018, includes impact statements from the following gymnast-victims: Gina Nichols (on behalf of her daughter, Maggie Nichols); Tiffany Thomas-Lopez; Jeanette Antolin; Amanda Thomashow; […]

Jessica Coody and Meg McDonald sit down with OU Women's Gym coach KJ Kindler and sophomore sensation Maggie Nichols. Some incredible perspective on the creative process.

GYMTERNET NEWS Jessica and Spencer discuss Simone Too Shutting down the ranch and options for an athlete and parent association Karolyi Ranch PTSD is real Maggie Nichols is Athlete A Maggie and her coach Sarah Jantzi reported Nassar to USA Gymnastics in June 2015 Complaint states that Steve Penny discouraged her parents from reporting to law enforcement Nassar was allowed to see patients for two years while under criminal investigation by MSU USAG's awful reaction statement reveals not a web of lies, but a web of stupid We break down USAG's commitment to "well, actually"-ing the survivors, while simultaneously admitting misdeeds The trouble with Fran. When is an "investigator" actually an "investigator"? USAG claims it did not identify interviewed athletes by name. Really, though? At what point is it time to close down USAG and start over? Geddert In motion to dismiss, he claims Rachael should really be suing her own mom Survivor statements indicate he knew as early as 1997 A listener asks why we seem to hate Geddert so much on this show. We explain. Read the details of police investigations into Geddert here. MSU follows suit Marcia Frederick, first US Gymnastics world champion, shares story of abuse Paul Ziert asks who approved the Maroney settlement and where the money came from NCAA NEWS (50:00) Actual gymnastics! The week that vault turned impossible The Maddie Desch vault debacle, explained The difference between elite and NCAA vault rules, and why NCAA is SAFER Why is everyone trying to vault when their steps are off? "Persistedness" — a deep dive Suzanne's back and she's already being SO Suzanne Lauren Rice is amazing and life is unfair The triumphant return of CRACK OR CORRECT? Emma McLean's floor 9.975 The beam start-value massacre at the Elevate the Stage quad Would Denelle Pedrick have scored higher for a "name" school? The GymCastic seal of approval goes to Khazia Hislop of UNC for floor (at 1:30:00) SUPPORT THE SHOW Join Club Gym Nerd here. Buy one of our awesome shirts here. HELLO FRESH This episode is sponsored by HelloFresh. For $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, visit hellofresh.com and enter promo code GymCastic30 SIMPLE CONTACTS This episode is sponsored by Simple Contacts. Get $30 off your contacts at simplecontacts.com/gymcastic or enter code gymcastic at checkout. RELATED EPISODES 286: Cover Your Eyes and Silently Scream 285: Bring on 2018! 284: Morgan Hurd 282: GymCastic Book Club – Fierce, by Aly Raisman 281.5: Aly Raisman Comes Forward As Nassar Victim 277.5: McKayla Maroney Alleges Abuse from Nassar 187: McKayla Maroney 238: Maggie Nichols & KJ Kindler 88: Rhonda Faehn & Mackenzie Caquatto 77: Aly Raisman Episode 15: Joan Ryan Author of Little Girls in Pretty Boxes Episode 56: Preventing Abuse in Gymnastics 163: ENOUGH  

MAGGIE NICHOLS IS ATHLETE A 2015 US Team World Champion, floor bronze medalists and 2017 Oklahoma NCAA Team Champion, Maggie Nichols has come forward as a survivor sexual abuse by Larry Nassar. "Up until now, I was identified as Athlete A by USA gymnastics, the US Olympic Committee and Michigan State University. I want everyone to know that he did not do this to Athlete A, he did it to Maggie Nichols." OC Register: Maggie Nichols, first Nassar whistle-blower, goes public Time: He Violated Our Innocence.’ Maggie Nichols Says She Was Abused by Team Doctor Larry Nassar Sports Illustrated: Says John Nichols, “After Maggie reported [in June of 2015], we were told to be quiet, don’t say anything to anybody, that USA Gymnastics was going to handle it. Later on, we would ask what’s happening and they’d say they were contacting the FBI. I was led to believe that the FBI was going to be handling this.” USA Gymnastics has not responded to SI’s requests for comment. You can read Maggie's statement in its entirety here Take Action Tell Maggie how much you appreciate her on her twitter Sign up for Champion Women's action alerts. Support Feinstein's Senate Bill 534 Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse and Safe Sport Authorization Act of 2017 by contacting your legislator. Find your representative here. NCAA SEASON BEGINS The first weekend of the NCAA season is in the books, and the theme was endurance. (Or lack thereof.) Michigan upsets Alabama. The Oscar-worthy tearjerker that was everyone's facial expressions before their third pass.  Bailie Key's stress dream of a debut beam routine, how it gets better, and how Jess still gives her a 10. Kennedy Baker's flu-cramp sets the tone for Florida's rough performance. When Amelia Hundley is falling, something is very wrong indeed Alyssa Baumann is back from the health wars and looks like she never left Was...was UCLA the most prepared team on floor this weekend? Do any of these first-week problems even matter? Kyla going up second on bars: A way-too-deep discussion. The change in beam requirements and the problem with forward + backward "series" SARAH. FREAKING. FINNEGAN. Denver is coming for everyone, and Lynnzee Brown is about to be a star. Why Peng's bars score of 9.975 was exactly correct GYMTERNET NEWS USA Gymnastics struck a deal with McKayla Maroney to keep abuse quiet Confused about who's arguing what, what arguments makes sense, what arguments definitely don't make sense, who's lawsuiting whom, who knew what when, and what the timeline for all this was? We break it all down simply enough that even we can understand. USOC CEO apologizes Fran Sepler made some statements. And they were a PROBLEM.  To summarize, the investigator for USAG just—hypothetically—admitted that she didn't report to police or CPC a child molester who was still working with kids. USAG did... after 5 weeks. Deanna Hong's phenomenal documentary piece, Why I Spoke Up: Rachael Denhollander WHAAAAA? A new team-final format was slipped into the FIG's updated technical regulations, and we love it. We have some questions about the characterizations (and accent situations) unveiled in the trailer for the Simone movie. Voronin Cup Komova is back and nailing her Arabian. She is the bars execution queen (because everyone knows giant swings don't count). We break down Nabieva's floor drama (because Nabieva) in detail. Oleg had surgery on his everything FEEDBACK We discuss your questions and comments, including Is it possible to do a Pak double back? More about undies and tinkling when tumbling Episode 222: Advice from pelvic floor specialist Are puppies sexist? (One of us still doesn't understand the question.) Here are the ice skaters with puppies at Olympic Trials.  A tiny complaint that we need to do more episodes (we agree!) What NCAA gymnastics can learn from lacrosse about early recruiting VAULTING ON TOP OF ACTUAL HORSES SUPPORT THE SHOW Join Club Gym Nerd here. Buy one of our awesome shirts here. Today’s episode is sponsored by HelloFresh for $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, visit hellofresh.com and enter promo code GymCastic30 RELATED EPISODES 285: Bring on 2018! 284: Morgan Hurd 283: Catalina Ponor Says Goodbye 282: GymCastic Book Club – Fierce, by Aly Raisman 281.5: Aly Raisman Comes Forward As Nassar Victim 277.5: McKayla Maroney Alleges Abuse from Nassar 187: McKayla Maroney 238: Maggie Nichols & KJ Kindler 88: Rhonda Faehn & Mackenzie Caquatto 77: Aly Raisman  

  GYMTERNET NEWS Check out the behind the scenes video from the unicorn of gymnastics, concurrent elite and college gymnast, New Zealand/Boise State's Courtney McGregor.  It's comeback season! November 1st was National Simone Biles Is Back In The Gym Day. How did you celebrate? The Alexei Nemov show Mustafina did almost-real beam and Komova did even more almost-real bars Spencer the Khorkina Whisperer breaks down the true meaning of her exhibition performance Khorkina also sticks her foot in her mouth again. All the surprise. Tatiana Nabieva continued being retired by winning the St. Petersburg Championship NCAA news Bailie Key is back and beaming for Alabama Madison Kocian had successful labrum surgery Sabrina Schwab has medically retired Maggie Nichols and Kyla Ross are still pulling out new tricks because of badassdom Mixed gender gymnastics Is mixed-gender team competition the future of gymnastics? We discuss the merits of the mixed team format at the Swiss Cup. Kenzo is the greatest uneven bars worker of our day The #manbeamwar is in full swing! Trigger warning section Larry Nassar's trial will not be moved. Plus, his child porn charges cannot be used in the assault trial. Is this horrible or normal law things? Tatiana Gutsu went on a Russian TV show, spoke about her rape in detail, and was treated horribly. She is the bravest ever. FEEDBACK What really happened with the redo vaults in 2000 The truth about Raducan and Amanar's positive tests in 2000, and what we're going to do about it! Other gymnasts who could potentially "Ray" (perform three eponymous skills in the same routine) Thoughts for making floor exercise less sexist More ideas for how to fix worlds Why we're wrong for wanting to move worlds out of Doha RX BAR This week’s show is brought to you by RxBar. For 25% off your first order, visit rxbar.com/gymcastic and enter promo code gymcastic at checkout. NORBERT'S Norbert’s has Gifts For Gymnasts! Holiday prices include shipping within the 48 contiguous states. Don’t be fooled by other manufacturers’ lesser quality “home use” lines of equipment. These are the same exact products found in gymnastics schools across the country and are made to last for years. Order by December 1st to ensure delivery by December 24th. Visit Norberts.net and click on the Gift Season is Here picture to find the perfect gift. RELATED EPISODES 279: A Diva Is Magical: The Svetlana Khorkina Episode (Commissioned) 278: 2000 Sydney All-Around Final (Commissioned) 277: Post-Worlds Therapy Session 262: 1996 Olympic Event Finals (Commissioned) 256: 1996 Olympic All-Around Final (Commissioned) 255: 1996 Olympic Team Final (Commissioned) 276: World Championships Day 7 — Event Finals Part 2 275: World Championships Day 6 — Event Finals Part 1 274: World Championships Day 5 — Women's All-Around Final 273: World Championships Day 4 — Men's All-Around Final 272: World Championships Day 3 — Women's Prelims 271: World Championships Day 2 — Men's and Women's Prelims 270: World Championships Day 1 — Men's Prelims  

IN THE NEWS  Spencer,  and Jessica chat about the 2017 NCAA Championships: Semifinal One: Scoring started tight/correct but did it stay that way? Utah gymnast sent a lovey message to apologizes for alleged behavior of their fan OU was shaky, UCLA shook up their lineups and improved Ross made history by becoming the first female gymnast ever to be an Olympic, World and NCAA champion.  Maggie Nichols vs. the beam Fans of the Year Award goes to Iowa! Crack or Correct : Denver's Karr stuck her 1.5 but didn't get the score she deserved.  Semifinal Two: Alex McMurtry (FL) wins all-around and stuck her DTY after not doing one for a month. LSU on fire but used all their fuel too early. Save of the Meet Award: Lauren Johnson (Georgia) bars gienger Living Your Best Life Award: Ashley Lambert (NEB) floor and tweet to RuPaul Stick of the Meet: Mollie Korth’s stuck DLO 1/1 Event Champions (full results) Jessica loves all the ties, Spencer hate them Should every judge's score count to eliminate ties? Katie Bailey (Alabama), only gymnast with an event title the last two consecutive years Alex McMurtry only gymnast to get 10 from all 6 judges Team Finals Oklahoma 198.3875 (highest Super Six score ever) LSU 197.7375  Florida 197.7000  UCLA 197.2625 Utah 196.5875  Alabama 196.0000 Oklahoma: least controversial, most well-deserving team of all time.  Maggie Nichols got a 10 on beam and from at least one judge on every single routine she did. Breaking down what happened to LSU How Dana Duckworth became an international hero with one simple interview. Peng Peng got a 10 on beam. FINALLY! Behind the Scenes Shenanigans The bars weren't set up correctly for podium training Athletes had a 15 hour day during semifinals day Human Bowling: Florida warm-up  F-yeah we beat Florida video breakdown McKenzie Wofford dropping the trophy St. Louis as a host city Ft. Worth future host city ESPN should buy the rights to every single gymnastics meet world-wide because their coverage was stellar! RELATED LINKS Watch European Championships: http://www.clujeurogym2017.ro/en/video/ FloGymnastics EuroVisionSport We like the Tunnel Bear VPN to watch geo-restricted content LEGISLATION ALERT: Senator Diane Feinstein introduced her bill to make failing to reporting sexual abuse a crime and creating a 10 year time frame for victims to come forward (S534). Read the text of the bill here and her press release here. Call your representative (find them here) to thank or tell them to pass this bill! To support the victims use hashtag #GymJaneDoe SUPPORT THE SHOW Join Club Gym Nerd here. Buy our awesome merchandise here. Club Gym Nerd April Giveaway: Spanny Tampson’s Gymnastics ABC Book Email gymcastic@gmail.com  Subject line: Spanny’s ABC Book No need to tell us why you want it, just email us that you want it. We’ll randomly choose a winner on the last day of the month RELATED EPISODES 247: Progress? Plus NCAA Regionals, British, Jesolo 246: Kathy Johnson Clarke Regionals Preview 245: Steve Penny is GONE 244: Russian Nationals & Gymnix 2017 243: Senate Bill 534 242: Standards 241: The Pittsburgh Incident 240: Chalkography 239: Elite Canada, Reykjavik & NCAA Olympic/World Championship Team Members Competing in College Gymnastics in 2017 238: Maggie Nichols & KJ Kindler 237: Ruby Harrold 236: Dream Theme Floor Routines 235: Happy 2017!

THE NCAA NEWS Spencer and Jessica recap the week in college gymnastics: Who has joined the hall of 10's. McMurtry DTY, Karas Michigan 1.5 for 9.975, Zaakira Muhammad, WVU, perfection on a full for 9.900. Kennedi Edney wasn’t supposed to do AA, steps in on floor with this--that wasn’t even in the lineup before, wins AA. Taryn Fitzgerald at Stanford front aerial landing on two feet. Crack or Correct: The most controversial scores of the weekend. McMurtry’s DTY - only got a 9.995. Should it have been a 10?  Sofie Seilnacht got a 9.7 from one judge, 9.75  from the other for this gorgeous beam routine. Robbed or fair?  THIS WEEK'S INTERVIEWS The 2015 team World Champion, bronze medalist on floor and national treasure, Maggie Nichols, talks about her transition from elite to college gymnastics at Oklahoma. KJ Kindler, two-time national championship coach of the defending NCAA champs at OU join us to nerd out about: Maggie Nichols (21:00):  The arm landing position question answered! Oversplits How she increased her level of fitness after her ACL tear. Going pro Secret skills she worked on that fans never got to see. Skills she's thrilled she'll never have to do again! KJ Kindler (38:25): How she manages to dominate from January through April.  What are her secrets to such a dominant, consistent beam team. Did she always know that Chayse Capps was going to be a star How did Brenna Dowell and KJ negotiate Brenna's return to elite last year The story behind the Syrian refugee floor routine and how the team handles the current political turmoil (American Refugee Committee). Sultry choreography Why Natalie Brown had to take the slither out of her routine. Watch it here, RIP "The Slither." Chayse Capps beam drop. GIVEAWAY HOW: Tell us what the historic UNC LGBTQ meet meant to you. Be as creative as you want. A story about how gymnastics helped someone come out. Or how gymnastics taught you to be a better ally. Use the hashtag #ThxUNCgym on Twitter, Instagram or Tumblr. We will pick a winner from a random drawing of entries. DEADLINE: February 5th, 2017  PRIZE: Three "Carolina Gymnastics Love is Love" t-shirts from the meet (sizes S, M and L)  Commemorative tickets from the event One pair of the famous ombre blue and black Carolina Nike shoes (size 7.5, see far right shoes in the photo above) SUPPORT THE SHOW Join Club Gym Nerd here. Buy one of our awesome shirts here. RELATED EPISODES 189: Blinded by the Swag 2016 American Cup Photo Gallery: Olympic Trials Day 2 205: Day Two 2016 Women's Olympic Trials Photo Gallery: 2016 Olympic Trials Day 1 204: Day One 2016 Women's Olympic Trials Photo Gallery: 2016 Olympic Trials Podium Training 194: Rio Test Event and 2016 NCAA Championships 176: Worlds Wrap-Up Show 175: Event Finals Day 2 Recap from 2015 World Championships 174: Live Show - Event Finals Day 1 and MAG All-Around Recap from 2015 World Championships 173: Women's All-Around Finals Recap from 2015 World Championships 171: Women's Team Finals Recap from 2015 World Championships 170: Women's Qualifying Recap from 2015 World Championships 169: Glasgow Worlds Preview Show 236: Dream Theme Floor Routines 223: Tasha Schwikert Episode 22: Beth Tweddle Episode 18: Bridget Sloan Episode 20: Jenni Pinches Episode 16: Elizabeth Price Episode 48: Kyla Ross 101: Olivia Vivian 146: Taylor Rice and The 2015 NCAA Championships 145: Rheagan Courville 158: Ariana Berlin’s Full Out Movie

IN THE NEWS In the news, Uncle Tim, Dvora and Jessica chat about: Russia has not been banned as a country, but the FIG must decide on individuals. (3:00) Valentina has declared Ksenia Afanasyeva retired, might not be true but Afan is out. Kuksenkov was cleared of all Meldonium doping charges earlier this year and is in Rio. Marta Karolyi Press Conference (9:25) We've decided Rhonda Faehn and Simone Biles/Aimee Boorman have started working Marta's mouth like a puppet because she held an open practice and even said the gymnasts must all be trained as individuals! Praise the gym gods! Germany, Steingruber Win in Chemnitz (14:00) Sophie Scheder scored a 15.25 on bars  (better at German Nationals with 15.5 which ranked her 8th in the World) Catalina Ponor scored a 14.700 on VT in Chemnitz. She outscored Larisa Iordache (FX, double Y turn immediate illusion turn!) on every event (except bars, which Ponor didn't do)   Ponor has a full twisting DLO Ponor took on her haters on Instagram--straight up Gabby Douglas style.   Insane Skill Alerts (17:40)  Kirsten Polderman (NED) switch-half  Dick. What should the Dick Half be rated? Will Sae Miyakawa (JPN) compete her front full to double front on the Gymnova floor in Rio? Artem Dolgopyat (ISR) is doing a triple back. Takahiro Goshima (JPN) doing a back 3.5 to punch 2.5; He can also do a front 3.5 but he won't be in Rio.  A History of Political Protests in Gymnastics (27:45) Are political protests allowed by the IOC and what are the rules about free speech for athletes? Vera Caslavska (CZE) wasn't punished for her protest against the Soviets by the IOC but Americans Tommie Smith and John Carlos were expelled from the Games. 1991 World Championships, Kuwait's thank you t-shirts.  Statements by gymnasts that could have been taken as protest speech. Politically charged uniforms: Korea vs. Japan's rising sun throwback flag leotards. Black Lives Matter (56:30) Should the US gymnastics team be prepared to answer questions about Black Lives Matter? Rio Olympic Athlete Village update. (1:02:00) Dvora's experience interviewing Oksana Chusovitina and Svetlana Boginskaya for Elle magazine. Khorkina “Biles will always be second.” Maggie Nichols continues to be a shining light of joy. INTERVIEW  Because the end of the quad is a time for competitive retirements and new artistic beginnings, we have a little glimpse into a gym nerd dream job with the casting director of Le Rêve, Louanne Madorma. (1:17:19) They have self-taught, level 8 and Olympians all in the show, there are knitting circles and dance contests, but unfortunately it's nothing like the movie DreamGirls. Louanne was in the roller-skating sensation, Starlight Express, and has hilarious blooper stories. The Wynn hotel, where Le Reve lives, pays for college at nearby UNLV! Contact Louanne Madorma at Le Rêve casting here. Listen to Jessica's review of Le Rêve in episode 41 here. CONTEST Win:  The End of the Perfect 10: The Making and Breaking of Gymnastics’ Top Score – from Nadia to Now by Dvora Meyers What: Write a new rule for the next quad How: #Endofthe10Book @GymCastic on Instagram or Twitter  Deadline: Sunday, July 31st at midnight.   SUPPORT THE SHOW Join Club Gym Nerd here. Buy one of our awesome apparel, notebooks, wall art, mugs, or cases  here. RELATED EPISODES 2016 Olympic Team and Coaches Episode 33: Simone Biles & Her Coaches 161: Women’s Finals Recap with Aimee Boorman and Christian Gallardo Episode 77: Aly Raisman Episode 41: Laurie Hernandez & Coach Maggie Haney 151: Danell Leyva Episode 32: Sam Mikulak & 2013 Men's NCAA Championships 2014 Winter Cup: Chris Brooks on Broken Bones, Blaniks, and Rio Episode 35: Jake Dalton 72: John Orozco 187: McKayla Maroney 206: The Russian Situation 201: Men’s Olympic Trials and P&G Champs Preview Gymbuster: Domestic vs. International Scoring 200: Alicia Sacramone 162: Wrap Up of the 2015 P&G Championships 160: PG Championships Women’s Prelims Recap Episode 48: Kyla Ross Episode 58: Charlotte Drury, Fall Euro Series & NCAA De-commits Episode 31: Elise Ray 148: Shannon Miller Episode 28: Kristen Maloney Episode 55: Worlds Wrap Up & Ferlito-Gate Episode 54: Event Finals Recap from 2013 World Championships Episode 53: All Around Finals Recap from Antwerp World Championships Episode 52: Triumph & Heartbreak Prelims Recap from Antwerp Worlds 114: Fallout From Gymnastike’s Handling of Maroney Hack & Tumble Episodes 3 and 4 with special guest Jenni Pinches! Episode 16: Elizabeth Price 146: Taylor Rice and The 2015 NCAA Championships Episode 9: Chellsie Memmel, Swiss Cup & FIG Presidential Proposals Episode 37: Julie Zetlin 81: Jenny Hansen Episode 15: Joan Ryan Author of Little Girls in Pretty Boxes Douglas Family Gold on Oxygen Podcast Recaps Douglas Family Gold: Finale DFG: World Selection Camp DFG PODCAST: Last Days of Summer Douglas Family Gold: A Companion for Gabby Douglas Family Gold S1E2: Graduation Day Douglas Family Gold: The First Hurdle Douglas Family Gold Preview Show RELATED VIDEOS Starlight Express 

 THIS WEEK'S INTERVIEW One of our original hosts, Dvora Meyers has just published The End of the Perfect 10: The Making and Breaking of Gymnastics' Top Score - from Nadia to Now. The book is the latest must-have in the gym nerd library. It examines the evolution of elite women’s gymnastics over the last few decades and answers questions that gymnastics fans have been asking since the last perfect score was handed out over 20 years ago. She reveals why successful female gymnasts are older and more athletic than they have ever been before, how the United States became a gymnastics powerhouse, and what the future of gymnastics will hold. Lauren and Jessica chat with Dvora about (4:45):  MythBusters in the book: Who were Nadia’s actual first gymnastics coaches, when the open-ended scoring system came about, East Germany set precedent for the current American training system. Gymternet vs television coverage - past and current Insulting coverage that creates gymnastics like a sideshow How the Ranch has changed over the years Texas Dreams taking athlete education to a whole new level.  Is the marketability of the 10.0 real or is it just nostalgia.  The gymternet versus dumbed-down Olympic television coverage.  Are we better off now with the open-ended scoring system? Olympic Trials Preview (38:16) Which athletes qualified to Trials, list here.  An ode to Alyssa Baumann's gorgeousness and why we are so sad that she is injured.  Which gymnasts should just be stoked to be at Trials and soak up the experience versus women who are actually in the mix.  Wildcards: Amelia Hundley, Maggie Nichols and Ragan Smith Will we see a team where both bars of the top bar gymnasts, Ashton and Kocian are on the same team? Will the business side of gymnastics come into who is chosen to do the all-around in Rio?  Will Gabby do her Amanar and upgrade bars at Trials? Can Swaggie Maggie make the team without her Amanar, and the rise of Laurie Hernandez? Lauren's Team: Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, Laurie Hernandez, Gabby Douglas, Madison Kocian Alternates: Ragan Smith, Ashton Locklear and MyKayla Skinner Jessica's Team: Simone Biles, Gabby Douglas, Laurie Hernandez, Aly Raisman, Madison Kocian, Ashton Locklear maximizing bars potential score (that's right, six people because both need to go!).  Alternates: Amelia Hundley, Maggie Nichols, MyKayla Skinner GYMTERNET NEWS (1:21:13) Chusovitina made her Produnova and the judge at the end couldn't keep her ish together!  Romanian Nationals: Pre-meet Larissa got a concussion but still won, although she may have hurt herself on her bar landing. Ponor had a fever and was in the hospital with some kind of food poisoning/flu! UGH! RELATED LINKS Fake, Jingoistic, And Stupid: Gymnastics Coverage Is The Worst Part Of NBC's Olympics by Dvora Meyers The Tumbler Tumblr - How hard-core gymnastics fans are revolutionizing the way the sport is covered by Elspeth Reeve Irked By Broadcast Coverage, Gymnastics Sites Aim To Raise The Bar - All Things Considered on NPR SUPPORT THE SHOW Join Club Gym Nerd here. Buy one of our awesome shirts here. Get Dvora's book in our Amazon store here. RELATED EPISODES 187: McKayla Maroney Getting to the Games: A Checklist 201: Men’s Olympic Trials and P&G Champs Preview Gymbuster: Domestic vs. International Scoring 200: Alicia Sacramone 162: Wrap Up of the 2015 P&G Championships 161: Women’s Finals Recap with Aimee Boorman and Christian Gallardo 160: PG Championships Women’s Prelims Recap 77: Aly Raisman Episode 48: Kyla Ross Episode 58: Charlotte Drury, Fall Euro Series & NCAA De-commits Episode 31: Elise Ray 148: Shannon Miller Episode 28: Kristen Maloney Episode 33: Simone Biles & Her Coaches Episode 55: Worlds Wrap Up & Ferlito-Gate Episode 54: Event Finals Recap from 2013 World Championships Episode 53: All Around Finals Recap from Antwerp World Championships Episode 52: Triumph & Heartbreak Prelims Recap from Antwerp Worlds 114: Fallout From Gymnastike’s Handling of Maroney Hack & Tumble Episodes 3 and 4 with special guest Jenni Pinches! Episode 16: Elizabeth Price 146: Taylor Rice and The 2015 NCAA Championships Episode 9: Chellsie Memmel, Swiss Cup & FIG Presidential Proposals Episode 37: Julie Zetlin 151: Danell Leyva 81: Jenny Hansen Episode 15: Joan Ryan Author of Little Girls in Pretty Boxes Douglas Family Gold on Oxygen Podcast Recaps Douglas Family Gold: Finale DFG: World Selection Camp DFG PODCAST: Last Days of Summer Douglas Family Gold: A Companion for Gabby Douglas Family Gold S1E2: Graduation Day Douglas Family Gold: The First Hurdle Douglas Family Gold Preview Show RELATED VIDOES  1988 Olympic Team Finals

    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) SUPPORT THE SHOW: Join Club Gym Nerd Join Club Gym Nerd here. Buy one of our awesome shirts here. RELATED EPISODES 187: McKayla Maroney Getting to the Games: A Checklist 201: Men's Olympic Trials and P&G Champs Preview Gymbuster: Domestic vs. International Scoring 200: Alicia Sacramone 162: Wrap Up of the 2015 P&G Championships 161: Women’s Finals Recap with Aimee Boorman and Christian Gallardo 160: PG Championships Women’s Prelims Recap 77: Aly Raisman Episode 48: Kyla Ross Episode 58: Charlotte Drury, Fall Euro Series & NCAA De-commits Episode 31: Elise Ray 148: Shannon Miller Episode 28: Kristen Maloney Episode 33: Simone Biles & Her Coaches 144: Counter Kim at Game of Regions 2015 Episode 55: Worlds Wrap Up & Ferlito-Gate Episode 54: Event Finals Recap from 2013 World Championships Episode 53: All Around Finals Recap from Antwerp World Championships Episode 52: Triumph & Heartbreak Prelims Recap from Antwerp Worlds 114: Fallout From Gymnastike’s Handling of Maroney Hack & Tumble Episodes 3 and 4 with special guest Jenni Pinches! Episode 16: Elizabeth Price 146: Taylor Rice and The 2015 NCAA Championships Episode 9: Chellsie Memmel, Swiss Cup & FIG Presidential Proposals Episode 37: Julie Zetlin 151: Danell Leyva 81: Jenny Hansen Episode 15: Joan Ryan Author of Little Girls in Pretty Boxes Douglas Family Gold on Oxygen Podcast Recaps DFG: World Selection Camp DFG PODCAST: Last Days of Summer Douglas Family Gold: A Companion for Gabby Douglas Family Gold S1E2: Graduation Day Douglas Family Gold: The First Hurdle Douglas Family Gold Preview Show

The kick-over-front, front-toss, dump, chicken-flip has an actual name, the "Rowe". Gymnast photos by the wonderful Christy Ann Linder of Gym Focus.    In the news, Jessica, Uncle Tim, Spanny Tampson, and Spencer chat about: Gymternet News: Russian news: Mustafa is back on bars! Rodionenko announced retirements, but are they all true? And why Russian athletes go to Germany for treatment.  The IOC announced that transgender athletes can now compete without gender reassignment surgery. We wonder how the gymnastics community will react and discuss why the IOC is far ahead of the NCAA when it comes to trans issues. Grandi says people think he is obsessed with justice. Has his biggest impact in the sport been one of fairness in judging or nah?  A kick-over-front tuck on beam was at one time named after "Rowe" but it's also known by 700 other crazy names. We establish the best name ever (see eponymously named episode) Listener Feedback (23:00): NastiaFan101 says we're wrong about Valerie and his WOGAtchev, some of his gymnasts had great tkatchevs. Jill asks who do we think will replace Marta Karolyi as US Team Coordinator and who should replace her.  Professor Nin took issue with Jessica's implication that people of color are less educated and therefore not eligible for head coaching positions (not what she meant! She was talking about these statistics). The professor goes onto explain what she thinks schools and athletes look for in a prospective college. NCAA Women's and Men's News: What made vault world champion, Alicia Sacramone squeal with joy when Ashley Gnat (LSU) competed The cartoon mouse who makes every Oklahoma home meet worth watching and why. Which beam rotation was the bleakest this week. Could Ukraine beat Georgia at anytime if they wanted to?  Why Florida will never remove Bridgey Caquatto from the anchor position on floor and what the television crew thought of her performance.  What kind of amazing things could you accomplish in life if you had a mic-ed up Dana Duckworth in your ear 12 hours a day? Why gymnastics fans should care about men's gymnastics--Anton Stephenson and Maggie Nichols video, the biggest fashion faux pas in men's college gymnastics and Ethan Lottman for Olympic pommel horse champion. Should the beam be changed after Katelyn Shashi's terrifying beam fall, and should she have really done her routine again even if she was ok?  USA Today reports that the SEC had half-BILLION in revenue in 2014. Olympic reporter Nancy Armour asks “And athletes aren't getting paid why again???” Which underdog teams can legitimately contend for a Super Six spot this year? New Hampshire's beam team and Missouri's all-around game are on our radar.  Rage-o-Meter: The Dumbass Award so far goes to Temple University for getting stuck on the highway in a blizzard for 30 hours. Smart move. Nobody saw that surprise blizzard coming. Gymnastics and Trampoline Scholarship http://www.trampolines.com/pages/jump-ahead-scholarship  Support us! Join Club Gym Nerd here. Buy one of our awesome shirts here. Listener Inbar_Gienger will have this series written into book two of the Lauren Hopkins 2016 trilogy! Congratulations! Please email us to claim your prize,  a copy of Lauren's book, "Finding Our Balance"   182: Triumvirate of Glory 181: Hipster Team 2016 Elites and the NCAA Take me! The Listener Survey 180: Flamethrowers, the must-have accessory for 2016 #ShowYourScreens Twitter challenge. This is how gym fans roll on Friday night.  We have video recaps of some of your favorite episodes. Here's Nanning Event Finals. Thanks Ms. M for putting these together! Check out our YouTube Channel with new video summary episodes here.  

World Champion, Simone Biles breaks the execution score world record at the 2015 P&G Championships in Indianapolis. © Christy Linder   We are in Indianapolis for the 2015 P&G Championships (AKA the US Artistic Gymnastics National Championships). This episode was recorded from a live Periscope broadcast which you can watch below (coming soon). We will be Periscoping again after the women's finals on Saturday night! Download the Periscope app to watch live on Saturday night! On this podcast with special guest, 2012 Junior National Champion, Lexie Priessman,  Lauren Hopkins, Cordelia Price and Dvora Myers we chat about: It was not as bad as the 2011 Splatfest but 2015 splatfest Gabby Douglas looked unshakable until the last event. Marta is not going to be happy. What the results tell us: everyone under the top 5 are very very very closely matched. Brenna Dowell smacked the haters upside the head with her BRILLIANT performance on every apparatus but especially with her 6.7 difficulty bar routine! WE SCREAMED WITH JOY! Simone had an uncharacteristic and surprising, especially to her, fall on floor but she came back to break the execution score world record on vault with a 9.85 from her stuck Amanar! Mykayla Maroney doesn't have a heart condition, Marta is misinformed. We told you Maggie Nichols was the one to watch and her second place finished confirmed our genius prediction.... along with her magnificent work. Aly Raisman and Kyla Ross had off night but vowed to face Marta together to make it less painful. Nia Dennis may have mad the most successful gym change ever because she placed third on vault and beam and had one of the most exciting, if uncontrolled bar routines of all time! It was like watching Pegan  or Zonderland do high bar. Full details on every junior from the rock steady dependability of Jazzy Foberg, Gabby Perea and Morgan Hurd to the shinning star of Laurie Hernandez, Sydney Johnson-Scharpf and Ragan Smith. Listener Meet-Up When: Immediately following Senior Women's Finals on Saturday, August 15th. Where: LOCATION CHANGED!  New Location: McCormick & Schmick's at the Hilton Indianapolis Hotel & Suites, 120 W Market St, Indianapolis What: Meet your fellow gym nerds and win some GymCastic podcast swag            159: 2015 Championships Preview Show 156: Pan Am Games Event Finals and Secret Classic Preview Secret Classic: What Does Success Here Mean 106: Biles and Ross Dominate the 2014 US Secret Classic 2014 Senior Secret Classic Competition Photo Gallery 2014 Junior Secret Classic Competition Photo Gallery Photo Gallery of Podium Training at the 2014 Secret Classic 105: Chicago Secret Classic Preview, Cuba is Back & Nadia Promotes Adult Gymnastics Episode 42: The 2013 Secret US Classic from Chicago Episode 41: Laurie Hernandez & Coach Maggie Haney Episode 9: Chellsie Memmel, Swiss Cup & FIG Presidential Proposals 148: Shannon Miller Episode 28: Kristen Maloney Episode 31: Elise Ray Episode 33: Simone Biles & Her Coaches Episode 48: Kyla Ross 61: Katelyn Ohashi Clears The Air 77: Aly Raisman   Periscope videos coming soon!  

"Swaggie Maggie" Nichols is about to lay the smack down in Indianapolis at the 2015 P&G Championships. © Christy Linder   This week Evan Heiter and Jessica preview the 2015 P&G Championships, and Spencer from The Balance Beam Situation recaps Gymnastike's "Beyond The Routine" show about Gabby Douglas and Nia Dennis at Buckeye Gymnastics. The Maggie Nichols factor - Don't doubt the power of the swag! How her injury at last year's Pan Am Championships will make her this year's newest World Team member. How to watch Team Sam Peszek and Evan Heiter rock the commentary game with Raj Bhavsar all week long in Indianapolis. Why Norah Flatley will be missing this competition. Which "2000 Babies" (AKA juniors who will be age eligible for the Rio Olympics next year), have the best chance making a case for their spot on the Rio team:  Rachel Baumann, Desiderio, Foberg, Frazier, Gaskins, Laurie “Baby Shakira” Hernandez, Johnson-Scharpf, Paulson, Quinn, Ragan “Feivel” Smith, or Olivia Trautman. We each pick the routines that must be seen lest the Gym God's rain down fire upon your soul! Upgrades and Placement: Will Gabby upgrade here or wait for Worlds? Is Kyla keeping her Bhardwaj or downgrading bars because of her fall at Classics? Will Simone throw her Cheng vault in Indy? Which specialists need to absolutely slaughter their event in order to make the team for Worlds? Which men are most likely to break into the old boys club and steal the coveted specialist spot for Scotland. How MyKayla Skinner and her choreographer got themselves into the Glasgow news for an epic leotard-related cultural gaffe. Why every time Sydney Johnson-Scharpf does a routine or Brenna Dowell approaches bars, Vegas-style lights should ignite around the apparatus and everyone should fall to their knees in worship! The draw for the World Championships is out so we had to debate the US team merits starting vs. finishing on beam. Finally, Spencer recaps Gymnastike's "Beyond The Routine: Buckeye" He rides the "implied shade express" as Gabby talks about her legitimate comeback and why new coach, Kittia Carpenter is a supportive person (as opposed to...) Like a gymnastics version of CSI, we dissect the clues that led to Nia Dennis's departure from her longtime gym, Buckeye for Legacy Elite. Discuss what coach Fernando Villa and Gabby would look like if they watched Dance Mom's together. We appreciate all of the moments when Mr. Positivity, Christian Gallardo, is on camera. Results for P&G Championships are at pgchamps.com. All sessions will be streamed live on pgchamps.com/live. If you are having trouble with access to Universal Sports outside of the US, try using a VPN. Our listeners recomend TunnelBear, Hola, ZenMate and GetUsVPN. TV Broadcasts (all times Eastern): Aug. 13 Women’s gymnastics – 7:30-9:30 p.m. – Universal Sports – LIVE Aug. 14 Women’s gymnastics – 12-2 a.m. – NBCSN – taped Aug. 14 Men’s gymnastics – 8-10 p.m. – Universal Sports – LIVE Aug. 15 Men’s gymnastics – 1-3 a.m. – NBCSN – taped Aug. 15 Women gymnastics – 8-10 p.m. – NBC Sports – LIVE Aug. 16 Men’s gymnastics – 3-4:30 p.m. – NBC Sports – LIVE GymCastic Listener Meet-Up   Watch Gymnastike's Beyond The Routine episodes with Gabby Douglas and Nia Dennis here.  156: Pan Am Games Event Finals and Secret Classic Preview Secret Classic: What Does Success Here Mean 106: Biles and Ross Dominate the 2014 US Secret Classic 2014 Senior Secret Classic Competition Photo Gallery 2014 Junior Secret Classic Competition Photo Gallery Photo Gallery of Podium Training at the 2014 Secret Classic 105: Chicago Secret Classic Preview, Cuba is Back & Nadia Promotes Adult Gymnastics Episode 42: The 2013 Secret US Classic from Chicago Episode 41: Laurie Hernandez & Coach Maggie Haney Episode 9: Chellsie Memmel, Swiss Cup & FIG Presidential Proposals 148: Shannon Miller Episode 28: Kristen Maloney Episode 31: Elise Ray Episode 33: Simone Biles & Her Coaches Episode 48: Kyla Ross 61: Katelyn Ohashi Clears The Air 77: Aly Raisman    

2015 junior Secret Classic Champion, Laurie "Baby Shakira" Hernandez. Photo © Christy Linder. This week on the podcast, a full recap of the Secret U.S. Classic from glorious Chicago suburbs.  Uncle Tim, Lauren, and Jessica chat about the best upgrades, moments, skills and routines, including: Scoring: don't get too excited, there was a stick bonus in place. Text book bars that made our hearts sing:  Madison Kocian, Brenna Dowell and Laurie "Baby Shakira" Hernandez. Injuries that took some out and others down:  Norah Flatly, Marissa Okaely and Kyla Ross. Which 2000 Babies (also known as juniors who will turn 16 in the Olympic year) will be a major threat for the 2016 Olympic team. Yes, this means we talked all about Ragan "Fievel" Smith. Ashton Locklear and the Mystery of the Zero Scores solved! Bailie Key's premier meet as a senior gymnast! Finally! Brenna Dowell had a rough day with a terrifying beam fall, but we loved her toe-on tkatchev caught in mixed grip to Ezhova! Will this help or hurt her chances of making the World team? Let’s play a game called “What did Skinner’s floor music sound like to you?” Simone Bile's new floor routine (spoiler alert, we loved it!); will Laurie Hernandez and Simone start a new trend in elite floor? What's next for Emily Gaskins and Steve Nunno. Maybe he was too calm and that's what hurt her performance. Gabby Douglas, her competitive excellence, Russian-style podium training, future upgrades and clarifying gymnastics facts for those you didn't know that she meant American Olympic history when she said,"No one has ever done it before." Aly Raisman looked gutted after her mistiming on floor led to a fall, but we saw big improvements from her. Our favorite moments: Abby Paulson's aerial layout series on beam; Trinity Thomas being adopted by Lauren; Maggie Nichols owning the podium; Polina Shchennikova's bars; Simone and her team flying on a private jet; Kaitlin deGuzman's toe point; Deanne Soza, Deanne Soza and DEANNE SOZA! Uncle Tim rages out over Felicia Hano's vault injury. Our weekly roundup of the latest news stories from around the gymternet include: Marta's retirement announcement and our speculation about her replacement. Shawn Johnson got engaged to NFL player Andrew East on a baseball field, but we tell you how we could have proposed to her in a much more gymnastics-appropriate way. The Canadian pop star who is named after Nelli Kim USA Gymnastics President, Steve Penny, awkwardly interviewing Simone Biles. We got a letter from a listener who told us all about training with Steve Penny and Peggy Liddick during the Shannon Miller era at Dynamo in Oklahoma! The Gymternet's best moments from podium training, complete with Gifs! Two women have repeated as the Olympic all-around champion in back to back Olympic Games, Larisa Latynina of Soviet Union in 1956 and 1960, and Vera Caslavaka of Czechoslovakia in 64 and 68. No American all-around gold medalist (we’ve only had four ever!), has ever made a second Olympic team; only one has even officlally tried, Nastia Liukin, by competing at the Olympic Trials. It's pretty common to make another Olympic team. Four Olympic all-around gold medalists have made a second Olympic team after winning all-around good: Larisa Latynina, Věra Čáslavská, Ludmilla Tourischeva, and Nadia Comăneci. 156: Pan Am Games Event Finals and Secret Classic Preview Secret Classic: What Does Success Here Mean 106: Biles and Ross Dominate the 2014 US Secret Classic 2014 Senior Secret Classic Competition Photo Gallery 2014 Junior Secret Classic Competition Photo Gallery Photo Gallery of Podium Training at the 2014 Secret Classic 105: Chicago Secret Classic Preview, Cuba is Back & Nadia Promotes Adult Gymnastics Episode 42: The 2013 Secret US Classic from Chicago Episode 41: Laurie Hernandez & Coach Maggie Haney Episode 9: Chellsie Memmel, Swiss Cup & FIG Presidential Proposals 148: Shannon Miller Episode 28: Kristen Maloney Episode 31: Elise Ray Episode 33: Simone Biles & Her Coaches Episode 48: Kyla Ross 61: Katelyn Ohashi Clears The Air 77: Aly Raisman Texas Dreams' wore a leo that was clearly an ode to the 1990's Unified Team / Soviet splatter paint leotards.      

This interview was released December 5th 2013. US national team member, Maggie Nichols, told USA Gymnastics about being abused by Nassar in June 2015. As of this update in January of 2018, she is the first known person to tell USA Gymnastics.... Then Rachael Denhollander, became the first survivor to go public in the Indy Star with accusations against Nassar in September 2016. It turns out that former doctor, Nassar had been abusing girls and women all the way back to the 1990s. And theses brave women, girls had been telling authorities all along, but they weren't believed. Larry Nassar is now a convicted pedophile and child pornographer who will spend the rest of his life in jail. This episode makes us feel guilty, sick and embarrassed but we will never take it down. Why? Because it may be one of the few interviews of it's kind, one with a serial child molester before he was caught. It shows how easy it is to groom adults, like us and our listeners (look a the comments section), and people in power, people who should have known better, including the USOC, USA Gymnastics, former USAG President Steve Penny, Martha Karolyi, former Chairmans of the Board Peter Vidmar and current Chariman Paul Parilla.  To understand more about why we have chosen to keep this interview up as a learning tool and how every system failed to protect girls, please read, listen and learn from the following: A Safeguarding Checklist: 12 questions every parent, young adult, and coach should ask. Indy Star series A Blind eye to sex abuse: How USA Gymnastics failed to report cases. USA Gymnastics Chose Medals Over Child Safety  Larry Nassar duped me. He would have duped you too. Here's how to stop the next abuser from taking his place  Listen to survivor impact statements at the sentencing hearing  here. Timeline of Larry Nassar's Crimes and Career. The Daniels Report. The Ropes & Gray Report. Aly Raisman's Fierce Abused: Surviving Sexual Assault and a Toxic Gymnastics Culture by Rachel Haines. Want to know who see's everything at The Ranch? Who runs the room where Kyla Ross said cameras should follow the team if they really want to see where the action is at camp. Who we would pick if we were going to pick a doctor to take care of our kids while they traveled around the world flipping at speeds that would make an astronaut jealous? It's USA Gymnastics Team Physician, Larry Nassar, A.T.C.  He's a professor, a certified athletic trainer, an osteopath and one of the most caring human beings you could ever hope to meet. A blunt, honest, experienced professional who tells it like it is. He can do that because he's so compassionate. This interview originally aired on December 6, 2013. We discussed: What Marta calls him about the most. What it was like to be part of the 2000 Olympic "hell" Dealing with parents who will not accept responsibility for their child's health The one change he would make in order to prevent injuries What injustice the International Olympic Committee commits against gymnasts Why The Ranch is no longer- as the fans formerly called it- "Death Camp" [2018 update: now it has a much worse nickname] Changing the camp culture to prevent athletes and coaches from hiding injuries Gym Myth Busters injury edition: ACLs, Achilles, & Shawn Johnson's knee injury MSU biography Region 5 Hall of Fame biography with bibliography Episode 56: Preventing Abuse in Gymnastics 163: ENOUGH Marvin Sharp episode Episode 15: Joan Ryan Author of Little Girls in Pretty Boxes 221: Jane Doe vs. USAG Doctor US Olympian Files Sexual Assault Lawsuit Against US Team Trainer/Physician 227: Jane Doe2 Sues Karolyis 277.5: McKayla Maroney Alleges Abuse from Nassar 245: Steve Penny is GONE Manifesto For Change 281.5: Aly Raisman Comes Forward As Nassar Victim 287: Simone and Maggie Too Recap Ep. 286: Cover your eyes and silently scream 286: Cover Your Eyes and Silently Scream  

This week on GymCastic, it's raining men. In the news, Uncle Tim, Evan, Cordelia Price, and Jessica chat about: The triumphant return of CUBA (WAG 4th place team) and how much we want Yesenia Ferrera and Manrique Larduet to defect too! Marvin "The Hot Mess of Unlimited Potential" Kimble Comparing the US men's scores at the national championships to the rest of the world (see chart below) How we felt about the US men's team selection process Pan American Championships: the good, the bad and the injuries (Maggie Nichols, noooo!!!) Yamilet Peña and the tale of the sliding sting mat Marta gives advice to parents and Arthur Zanetti loves to take pictures with Cordelia Sexy Data: How did Pan Am Championship scores compare to P&G Championships for the US women How the performance of the US women at Pan Am's effected their positions for the world team We lament the loss of thrown back artistry from our beloved, Tomás "Porn Stach" González How Donell Whittenburg stole the show at P&G Championships How competitive was the men's competition at the Pan American Championships? This chart shows the top men's all-around scores for the qualification rounds at each competition. Pan Am's for men were more competitive than Commonwealths, about equal to Europeans, but not as competitive as Worlds. Compiled by Cordelia Price.   Apply for tickets to the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto here. Jessica Lopez (L to R), Mykayla Skinner and Yesenia Ferrera of Cuba. Catching up with John Orozco at the 2014 Winter Cup Challenge Episode 55: Worlds Wrap Up & Ferlito-Gate Episode 54: Event Finals Recap from 2013 World Championships Episode 53: All Around Finals Recap from Antwerp World Championships Episode 52: Triumph & Heartbreak Prelims Recap from Antwerp Worlds Episode 51: Podium Training Report From Antwerp Episode 50: 2013 Antwerp World Championship Preview 97: Anadia World Cup & Canadian Nationals Episode 35: Jake Dalton Episode 24: Sho Nakamori & Match-Play Meet Debrief with Justin Spring 72: John Orozco Episode 40: Michigan's Stacey Ervin Episode 32: Sam Mikulak & 2013 Men's NCAA Championships Episode 21: Kyle Shewfelt Watch this week's playlist on YouTube here.          

Content Warning: Sexual Assault, Child Abuse, and Molestation Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of the Women's Sports Matter Podcast! In today's episode, I talk about the senate testimonies of Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Maggie Nichols, and Aly Raisman. You can follow me on Twitter and Facebook @WSMpodcast & Instagram @womenssportsmatter. To submit questions, topics, folks I should interview, and more, tag me on socials! Check out my other episodes that will be posted on this channel the same day I post on RedCircle. Want to message me about coming on the podcast or for suggestions? Email the podcast here: womenssportsmatterpodcast@gmail.com. Make sure to subscribe and thanks for listening!McKayla Maroney's Opening Statement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19lLg2EmJaYEntire Senate Hearing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTZJ4SOYx6cPodcasts I've Been On:The Final Third Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4gE0UOhI0iebqzlRqDZZC1?si=74684a56e5814481United Soccer Coaches Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4cChnScMp0iULj5ybfWyP5?si=3b2c539f8ab14090 Resources:Register to Vote: https://www.vote.org/Find A Vaccine Near You: https://www.vaccines.gov/search/Find Your Legislator: https://openstates.org/find_your_legislator/The Trevor Project: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/NAMI: https://www.nami.orgBLM: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/Issues in the world: https://issuesintheworld.carrd.co/Social Media:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenssportsmatter/Twitter: https://twitter.com/WSMpodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/WSMpodcastMy Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfvUE_I7u2rbN3aOFOX1M-A/My podcast website: https://redcircle.com/shows/womens-sports-matter Where you can listen to my podcast: Amazon Music, Anghami, Apple Podcasts, Audacy, Audible, Breaker, Gaana, Google Podcasts, iHeart Radio, Overcast, Pocket Casts, RadioPublic, RedCircle, Spotify, Stitcher, and TuneIn.More Platforms Coming Soon!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/womens-sports-matter/donations