Worlds Team Controversy Season

GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

• • Team Controversy Season has arrived and this year, Canada is hosting
    • Why isn't Shallon Olsen with her big vault score not on the team
    • We revisit that year Mai Murakami was left off the Japanese World team to help all those who commemorate
  • CSI Szombathely : speaking of controversy, we discuss what happened to Eddie Penev on vault in when the wrong board was put in for him
  • The injuries to Nina Derwael (BEL), Elisabeth Seitz (GER) and reigning beam World Champion Watanabe Hazuki (JPN) what that means for their respective countries and Olympic hopes
  • Italian Championships! Manila Esposito's beam, Elisa Iorio's AA return, and are we rethinking Italy's team medal chances?
  • Thoughts on countries naming six team members and waiting to decide the alternate until the last second
  • Plus, the gymternet news, the dumpster fire news, and your feedback on vault versus floor skill difficulty, sting mat deductions, podium training styles, and differentiating a switch full from a tourjete half.

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