252: Myths, Legends, and Unexpected Moments in Gymnastics History
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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šļø 17 May 2017
ā±ļø 98 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to another commissioned episode. Club Gym Nerd member, Alison, helped support the podcast by asking usĀ toĀ talkĀ about the greatest myths, legends and unexpected moments in gymnastics history. Ā Thank you so much Alison! Ā Spencer, and Jessica chat about:
- Greatest Myths:
- Menstruation, height, beam width, Raducan's gold medal, and pregnancy doping
- Legends:
- Age stereotype-defining heroes in the Olympics and NCAA from Chusovitina to Daria Bijak
- Innovators from Mo Huilan, Hali Sheriff, to Elvira Teza
- The 1974 NCAA Championship streaker
- Champions from Khorkina,Ā Shun Fujimoto, Gabby Douglas andĀ Vera Caslavska
- Unexpected Moments
- The vault height during the all-around final at the Sydney Olympics
- 2004 Olympics men's gymnastics multifaceted debacle
- Wildlife
- Age falsification. Why do only the Asian countries get punished?
- Lingerie gymnastics
- The judge who gave an impossible score
- Tie breakers, wooden legs, circus discrimination, and that one time when AlijazĀ Pegan broke the P-bars
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- Join Club Gym NerdĀ hereĀ orĀ commissionĀ your own episode.
- Buy one of our awesome goodiesĀ here.
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| 0:30.0 | Welcome to a very special Commission episode number 252 from May 17th, 2017, all about |
| 0:39.8 | myths, legends, and unexpected moments in gymnastics history. |
| 0:44.4 | Welcome to Jumkastic, the number one gymnastics |
| 0:46.8 | podcast in the world. |
| 0:48.2 | I'm Jessica, and I'm here with Spencer from The Balance Beam |
| 0:51.2 | situation. |
| 0:52.1 | And this, as I said said is a commissioned episode by a club |
| 0:55.4 | gym nerd member Allison who once had a band called Nautia Now because that was her favorite movie and her favorite line in the 1984 |
| 1:07.8 | made-for- TV Nautia movie which is the best Nautia movie of them all. Of course. Yes and if you don't know by now what you |
| 1:16.3 | really should club gym nerd members like Allison help us pay our bills and in |
| 1:20.6 | return get all kinds of thank you goodies from us so you can see details |
| 1:24.7 | at gymnastic.com under the support us tab. For her commission, Allison asked, she was |
| 1:31.0 | very charitable because she gave us like free reign to basically talk about whatever we want. |
| 1:35.0 | We were like, thank you, Allison. |
| 1:37.0 | But Allison asked us to talk about one of the options she gave us, |
| 1:40.0 | and the one we were really excited about |
| 1:42.0 | was the greatest myths, |
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