Welcome to our coverage of the 50th Artistic Gymnastics Championships live from Kitakushu, Japan.

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We were podcasting live every day from here in Japan. Today was the very first day of qualifying. We start with the women's qualifying.

And this is episode 61 for October 60 for October 18, 2021, year three, two of the global pandemic.

Welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast in the galaxy. I'm Jessica, and I'm here with Spencer from the Balanced Beam situation.

And Kenzley, our men's gymnastics expert, Kenzley just did an interview with the BBC. So you might hear her later.

She had to step in for me, and she did a fantastic job, and we're so proud of her. So listen to her interview.

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And we do this for club gym nerd rumors because they pair away here. And let's start with the first controversy. Well, there's two big controversies tonight.

There are so many big controversies. It's a major controversy. But we have a rules time debacle with the US women's team on an even bars that we have to talk about really our bread and butter as a show, like the rules, the code of points, USAG screwing up something, parsing through all of that.

Let's talk about should I set the scene? Do you want to set the scene Jessica? Well, so yes, let me set the scene. And then you can, yeah.

So basically warm up start and everybody gets a one touch, right? So this is qualifications. And now even in finals, you get a one touch because it changes the rules at the Olympics. So US goes to bars. They have three people going on bars.

We see MJ does her warm up. We see Leanne Wong does her warm up and then the cello does not warm up and there seems to be like a kerfuffle.

And then the cello doesn't get a warm up. So she does her doesn't get a one touch. She does a cold set and hits her routine because she's Kayla Dicello. And if you've met her, she's amazing.

So yeah, she did great. And she had a routine, but we're like, what is going on? And it looked like Jessica Leanne's over and she's like, Kayla did not get a warm up. And I asked her three times. I was like, are you sure? Are you sure? Are you sure?

Because I was like, could see like Jessica, you know, like making the steel and then going to make some and then being like, of course I got a warm up. So she's like, no, no, she did not.

Yeah, some things I'm terrified. You know, because I remember getting my one touch warm up as a little kid and it was the most important part of my whole entire gymnasic experience for crying out a lot of what have died if I had to do cold sets like these elites do as a little kid.

So one touch, if you would say that they were bum fuzzled.

They were bum fuzzled so hard you guys. I mean, what what happened is if I would have been bum fuzzled had I not had a one touch as a kid is what I'm saying, or as an adult since I competed up to like 38. So important, the one touch.

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