169: Glasgow Worlds Preview Show

GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

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4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2015

⏱️ 108 minutes

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In the news, Uncle Tim, Lauren Hopkins, and Jessica chat about:

The Russian press conference that featured more empty plates than gymnastics
Hashtag Wars: the official hashtag has been changed from #2015wgc to #Glasgow2015
The Competition:
- Who's here and how they qualified
- Competition format six gymnasts per team, one alternate. Five gymnasts compete in on each event prelims with only four scores counting (5 up 4 count). In finals, only three gymnasts can compete and all three scores count towards the team score (3 up 3 count).
- Lauren plays How To Get Your Favorite Gymnast To Rio with Uncle Tim
- Non-nominative vs. Nominative
Injury report and which teams are on the “Oh Crap We Are Going To Have to Go To The Test Event” List
Gymnasts you must watch in prelims because although they might not make finals, they will make you believe in the Gym Gods: Thorsdottir, Berki, Wever, Zapata, Millousi and more.
Jaw dropping skills you must watch lest you kick yourself forever: Bretschneider on high bar, Ablyzin on floor, Toni-Ann Williams Produnova off beam, Chustovitina's Produnova on vault, Ruby Harold's Zuchold, Schafer's side somi half.
Medal Favorites and our predictions: Brenna Dowell will win all the things!
Personal stories we are following in Glasgow
- Cuba is back for the first time since 2003
- Bahamas, Africa, Caribbean nations representing with exciting gymnasts
- Team Jamaica: from zero to an super exciting, unique, dream making national team
- Chusovitina and the women of women's gymnastics

Danell Pecht and Kerri Joyce are getting two tickets each for floor seats, t-shirts and hospitality at Elevate the Stage!

How To Get Your Favorite Gymnast To Rio [A Flowchart] by Uncle Tim

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How to watch the world championships (below). If you are having trouble with access outside of the United States, try using a virtual private network (VPN). Our listeners recommend TunnelBear, Hola, ZenMate and GetUsVPN.

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0:00.0	Today it's our Glasgow World Championships preview show. You can support your favorite gymnast and your favorite
0:06.2	podcast with our new awesome merchandise while you watch will tell you how to watch from anywhere in the world streaming live while you pretend to work or pay attention in class
0:16.8	We have our elevate the stage contest winners.
0:19.3	Lauren is gonna play how to get your favorite individual to the Olympics with Uncle Tim and will tell you who has the most expressive performance quality
0:28.0	You've got to watch them in prelims who has the most jaw dropping skills and incredible personal stories that will all unfold along with the metal favorites because it is our 2015 Glasgow World Championships's Preview Show.
0:43.6	Let's get our Jim nerd on!
0:45.8	This is episode 169 for October 19th, 2015
0:50.2	coming to you early on a Monday.
0:51.6	Welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast
0:53.8	into the world bringing you all the news from around the Jim turn net. I'm
0:57.4	Jessica and I'm here with Uncle Tim from Uncle Tim Talks Men's gym and
1:01.0	Lauren Hopkins from the Jimture.net.
1:04.2	And first, we had to talk about the most hilarious press conference
1:09.8	there has ever been in the history of the world? I laughed solid the entire time.
1:17.0	Uncle Tim, can you describe what happened at the Russian press conference and what the media was focused on during this?
1:27.0	Well, there are a couple things.
1:29.0	So first of all, there are plenty of screen caps of this press conference on Tumblr and they usually show
1:37.6	Alya Mustafa sitting at the table next to a fawn and they're both thinking why do I have to be here they have the biggest
1:47.6	resting bitch face ever and then you, they also had plates in front of each gymnast in case they wanted it to eat, but of course, all of the gymnast had nothing on their plates.
2:03.0	So you just see Victoria Comova sitting there with the plate and I think the commentator,
2:09.7	I don't speak Russian, but it looked like the person interviewing Victoria Comova was trying to get her to eat something.
2:17.0	Lauren, what were your impressions of the press conference?
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