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CONTEST

What: 5 winners get a copy of Miss Vals book: Life is Short, Dont Wait to Dance

Grand Prize: Book and 15 minute personal phone call with Miss Val.

How to Enter: Using the #DontWaitToDance on Twitter or Instagram tag us @GymCastic with a 5 second video doing your favorite UCLA floor choreography. Doesn’t have to be you, use your dog, fingers, make a friend do it.

Bonus entries: Link to the book. Enter as many times as you want.

When: Now to October 5th

*Conflict of Interest Disclaimer: Jessica’s husband co-authored this book.

THE BIG STORIES

Miss Val will retire after the 2019 season (3:30) Nostalgia for the age of larger-than-life coaches What does UCLA do now? And is it a knife fight for the head coach position?

MLT interview – the aftermath (20:20) How Jessica feels about it now and why she never wants to do it again This is a sense in which reconciliation can serve as a powerful force for societal healing. But at the same time, these .” Reactions, regrets, impressions, hopes, frustrations, and feedback What Jetter and her dad had to say

Kensley attended US men’s selection camp and has ALL THE SCOOPS (59:40) Mikulak, Moldauer, Yoder, Modi, and Van Wicklen will go to Doha Why Whittenburg was left off the national team Marvin Kimble drama-things Why Brett McClure is scared of the Olympic tour The trashy gym and mismatched equipment the US men have to use



MEET NEWS

Pan American Championships (1:31:13) Dominance from the US women (duh) Grace McCallum’s world championships chances Trinity Thomas makes history Don’t sleep on Team Mexico JUSTICE FOR THE WOMEN OF CUBA The US men won with consistency Manrique was the Manrique of the meet

Becky Downie is doing a 6.6 BARS ROUTINE

GYMTERNET NEWS (1:46:29)

Ropes and Gray is delayed until the end of 2018

Mary Lou Retton is on Dancing with the Stars …… Lobbied Senator Feinstein against the SafeSport bill

 You hear a lot that Larry Nassar was a tumor on an otherwise perfect system and NO! Larry preyed upon a broken system. Note to MLR Alyssa Beckerman with Inside Gym:

FYI: World Championships is canceled Celine Van Gerner and Eythora Thorsdottir will not compete Bram Verhofstad didn’t make the Dutch men’s team Coline Devillard is out for France

The Thema Williams trial has begun

Peyton Ernst is retiring

Stacey Ervin did a WWE something or other

FURTHER READING

US Men  World Championship Selection

The Miss Val Show

Pan American Championships  What Happened There?

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