Claudia Fragapane (top left), Olivia Vivian (top right), and Glawgow volunteer Jamie Day (center bottom).
 
Jessica, Blythe, Emma and Jamie chat about:

Did Australian head coach, Peggy Liddick's controversial plan to take potential event medalists and leaving their all around champion at home.
Our fears that the British media are portraying Fragapane as the next world champion and will set her up for unreasonable expectations.
Jamie tells us what it was like to volunteer in Glasgow for gymnastics and be forced to eat candy!
Dipa Karmakar's double front vault. Was it worthy of it's namesake, the great Produnova?
Louis Smith and Kristina Thomas carrying an injured Sam Oldham onto the podium for his gold medal in a Kerry Strug-esque moment of glory.
The most anticipated pommel horse show down since the 2012 Olympic Games.
 The fantastic attitude of Becky Downie who competed injured for a title on bars but three falls on beam.
The gym-romance between Hannah Whelan and Sam Oldham.
Will Max Whitlock challenge for an all around medal at Worlds?
Ellie Black vs. Claudia Fragapane in the vault finals- -we discuss whether or not the outcome was fair.
Olivia Vivian, Miss Congeniality of the gymnastics world.
The massive improvement of the Welsh girls and Indian women's gymnastics.
Sportsmanship gymnastics style.



107: Acro World Champions Kristin Allen & Michael Rodrigues
106: Biles and Ross Dominate the 2014 US Secret Classic
2014 Senior Secret Classic Competition Photo Gallery
102: Classic Episode with Louis Smith
101: Olivia Vivian
81: Jenny Hansen
96: Australian Nationals & Men’s European Championships
Victoria Moors: A Photo Gallery from the 2014 American Cup
86: British Championships & Doha World Cup

An Inside View of gymnastics at the Commonwealth Games - by from our friend MIchelle Webb who volunteered in media at the games.
I was, and still am, skeptical about the team format. The reason they did it was because they didn't have enough of the most highly qualified judges to run all the panels simultaneously. That makes me wonder if there are rules against judges from non-competing nations judging or if it was a money thing in forking out for extra officials. One good thing about the way they organised the countries was that it meant spectators got to cheer on gymnasts from just about every country. All the big teams except Wales had MAG in one session and WAG in the other. That was very nice for the fans and it also meant gymnasts could watch their male/female counterparts perform. Of course the big consequence of the country draw was that MAG medals were decided in the first session and WAG medals in the second. That meant those that paid more for "finals" tickets only saw half the competition be decided but it was great for the session one spectators who didn't get to see the medal ceremony but saw the big MAG England v Scotland battle.
I would be interested to know what the gymnasts thought of it. I'm curious how being able to focus on limited events per day stacked up against being different and having to compete multiple days in a row. As a trampolinist I would be perturbed having to compete set and voluntary routines on different days, I'd prefer to get it done and out of the way! I guess there was the potential for tactics to change based on day one scores but I'm not sure we saw any of that.
The announcer was good about explaining which teams were coming in and out. Teams were marched in and out at the same times as other groups were rotating events so it was a bit disjointed. With so much going on it was extremely difficult to keep track of the scores. The main scoreboard had MAG and WAG scores, subdivisions and rotation numbers and was probably tricky to follow for newbies. I'm not sure the non-gym nerds were too bothered but I found it had less ebb and flow than a normal team competition. I always remember Barry Davies (God) being disparaging about Romania winning Sydney TF while sitting on the sidelines. Having a