186: Amanda Borden
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2016
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
Olympic gold medalist, Amanda Borden
The smiliest gymnastics queen in all the land visited Uncle Tim this week. On the 20th anniversary of her Olympic gold, the commentator, gym owner, coach and member of the Magnificent Seven, Amanda Borden, chatted about (01:15:10):
- Why that forward shoulder roll in 1992 compulsory beam routine was so hard
- Whether or not horrific fall replays should be shown on TV
- Committing to the University of Georgia; going pro and never leaving home for training
- Her thoughts on the gymnastics fans theory that Mary Lee Tracey has an injury curse
- If NCAA coaches should ditch the ties and heels and rock a warmup suit like elite coaches
- Being one of Mary Lee Tracy’s first stars and learning to navigate that elite world together
- The significance of female head coaches winning the first team Olympic gold medal
Jessica, Spanny and Lauren have your weekly roundup of the latest news stories from around the gymternet:
- Uncle Tim's major news (forgive us this indulgence, we are really excited for him)
- Beth Tweddle broke her neck on a reality show but she's up and walking
- Orozco won the all-around in his first competition back after his second Achilles tear
- Chusovitina killed it at the WOGA Classic. Proving that age is nothing but a number and we have the data to prove it
- (11:30) Sophia de Jesus's floor routine went viral, like way beyond Lloimincia or any other gymnastics routine we can find.
- Spanny broke down just how huge her numbers are.
- We analyze why this routine, in particular, broke through.
- (24:40) Could Sophina de Jesus do her hip-hop floor choreography in elite? We asked two elite judges. You must hear their answers!
- (41:26) NCAA News :
- We talk about teams we love who ranked 8-16
- Cal's WOGA-ness and throwing every vault in Code
- OSU's unique and innovative commitment to artistry
- Auburn gymnastics beat Alabama for the first time since 1979
- Sacramento State and their robot choreography and insane skills (Ezhova)
- Kentucky's Sidney Dukes
- Georgia who just beat LSU and Florida!
- Agree or Disagree Greg Marsden who said, college meets should stop extended awards ceremonies at the end of a dual-meet.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Remember the show is PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
| 0:04.0 | So some gymnastics fans have decided that Mary Lee has an injury curse. |
| 0:09.3 | Do you think that Mary Lee just has bad luck or why do you think gymnastics fans have created this |
| 0:15.2 | image of the curse? You know obviously JC felt to myself her you know, major international elites and we both made the Olympic |
| 0:25.9 | team in the same year, I think. |
| 0:28.1 | I mean, if you call that bad luck, I think a lot of coaches would take it. Very true. |
| 0:34.0 | Today, Amanda Borden talks about Mary Lee Tracy and why that stupid front chest roll thing |
| 0:41.0 | in the 92 compulsory was so freaking hard. Beth |
| 0:44.9 | Rennel broke her neck on a reality show but she's okay-ish right now so |
| 0:49.5 | Fina de Jesus' floor routine went viral and but why don't we see more routines like this in elite? |
| 0:55.2 | We will discuss it all on this episode. |
| 0:57.2 | This is episode 186 for February 17th, 2016 and if you look in the show notes you can see that we have time stamps marked so if you want to skip ahead to your favorite part you can do that by looking at the show notes |
| 1:09.7 | Welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast in the entire galaxy. I'm Jessica and I'm here with Spanny from |
| 1:16.6 | Spanny's big freak smile and Lauren from the Jimter dot net and before we start this week, we have a big announcement. |
| 1:25.2 | We have a major interview coming up next week. |
| 1:29.2 | This is someone the whole world has been waiting |
| 1:31.9 | to hear from, not not just gymnastics fans. |
| 1:34.0 | You will, like it's been a long time and this person hasn't said a lot. |
| 1:39.1 | If you're a club gym nerd member, the trailer will have arrived in your email. You probably have it right now. |
| 1:45.2 | Rush to your email and look and you can watch the trailer. Because it's a video and a podcast, |
| 1:49.6 | so you can watch it or listen to it. Club gym nerd members will also get the full interview first |
| 1:55.6 | in your email next week. |
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