Luisa Blanco Interview and Oversight Season
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Interview: Luisa Blanco (48:17)
NCAA champion for Alabama, Colombian Olympian and Paris all-around finalist talks about her career and what's next. In this week's interview we discuss:
- Her next chapter in gymnastics
- Growing up at WOGA
- What her parents did to afford gymnastics
- Her most embarrassing fall of all time
- Learning a Patterson
- Why she went elite and what she learned about herself
- Details about her shoulder injury
- The Paris Olympic experience
Gymternet News
- German gymnasts are speaking up about abusive coaching practices. (2:31)
- Oceanside quad meet's organizational disaster and the 2019 article in Variety detailing a lawsuit against the organizer.
- We said goodbye to Olympic great and holocaust survivor, Agnes Keleti. Watch her gorgeous beam routine under trees.
Week 1 Meet News
- Jessica and Spencer attended the American Gold Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Classic in Oceanside, CA and share their impressions
- How Jade Carey, even after all her success, continues to improve
- The return of Brooklyn Moors to three events
- Cal's steady performance to open the season
- Reactions to the scoring and Score Board from Cal co-head coach, Justin Howell (27:02)
- Ondine Achampong (Cal/GB) on adjusting to life at Berkeley and her ACL recovery (46:26)
Join Club Gym Nerd (or give it as a gift!):
-
- Weekly Q&A Behind The Scenes podcast, dedications, mini-commissions , group commissions, exclusive extended interviews, and College & Cocktails episodes. Plus 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
-
- Things You Only Know if You Are A Gymnast
- Growing Up at Round Lake
- Behind The Scenes: every Friday find them all here
- Behind The Scenes: GOAT Tour & Jordan's Swiss Appeal
COMMISSIONED EPISODES
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Remember, this show is PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
| 0:04.3 | TumbleTrak is having a sale. |
| 0:07.0 | They have 5% off carpet-bonded foam, always important, and they have the New Year, |
| 0:13.1 | New You, 10% off sale. |
| 0:15.4 | So you can check out all the things they have and the sale at TumbleTrac. |
| 0:20.6 | Visit T-U-M-B-L-T-R-A-K-TumblT-R-A-K-TumblTRAK. |
| 0:25.8 | Today, we have Olympian, Paris All-R-R-Rown finalist, |
| 0:34.2 | Alabama-Great NCAA-Champion on Beam. |
| 0:37.0 | Luis de Blanco is here to chat with us and tell us |
| 0:40.7 | some very exciting news. German gymnasts are calling for an investigation. We'll tell you all the |
| 0:45.7 | details. And the NCAA season has started with record for the last five years, low scores in the new |
| 0:52.2 | oversight era. The new season of watch your Favorite Olympic World Champion Elite compete every weekend for 14 |
| 0:58.6 | weeks is here. |
| 0:59.9 | College season. |
| 1:01.0 | We're going to talk about it. |
| 1:02.1 | It's January 6, 2025. |
| 1:04.0 | And welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast in the galaxy. |
| 1:06.8 | I'm Jessica and remember with Spencer from the balance theme situation. |
| 1:10.2 | And in case you missed it, we have a show called College and Cocktails, the NCAA gymnastics post-meat show, which we've been doing for years now. |
| 1:18.0 | And we started last week this season. |
| 1:20.8 | So you can listen to Friday's episode. |
| 1:23.2 | We pick a meat and we watch it. |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in -80 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.