This week we talk about our favorite routines from the Swiss Cup and discuss the platforms Grandi, Stoica and Titov ran on in their FIG presidential campaigns.  We talk to Chellsie Memmel who gave us very honest and frank answers about her experience being eliminated from the 2012 Olympic trials process; how Steve Penny suggested her retirement after Classics, being announced as an alternate live on television in 2004, finding love while being an elite athlete, making the team but competing with a severe injury in Beijing and how she made the decision to move on from her longtime coach Jim Chudy at Salto.

Louis Smith Calendar Blythe's Notes from the 2012 Swiss Cup Rybacki is the new Kathy Kelly Karolyi confirmed as U.S. National Team Coordinator; Liukin, Rybacki get new job Visa no longer the title sponsor for US Nationals Platforms of the FIG presidents from the fantastic blog / FIG Watchdog,  The All Around  Dvora for Deadspin U.S. Gymnastics Turns Its Back On Chellsie Memmel, Genuine Badass


Episode 9: Chellsie Memmel, Swiss Cup & FIG Presidential Proposals
Episode 12: Miss Val Part 2
Episode 11: Miss Val
Episode 15: Joan Ryan Author of Little Girls in Pretty Boxes
Episode 17: Growing Up In The Soviet Gymnastics System And Training At Round Lake
Episode 22: Beth Tweddle
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
81: Jenny Hansen
99: Princess Catherine Lyons and Coach Rochelle Douglas
101: Olivia Vivian
137: Lady Lisa Mason