255: 1996 Olympic Team Final (Commissioned)
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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šļø 13 June 2017
ā±ļø 118 minutes
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Summary
This week, we have another very special commissioned episode for you to sink your ears into. Loyal Club Gym Nerd member Robin helped support the show by asking us to talk about everyone's favorite competition, the meet that launched a million gym nerds, and probably the most important moment in the entire history of sports, the 1996 OLYMPIC WOMEN'S TEAM FINAL! Thank you so much, Robin! Jessica and Spencer discuss:
- Olympic Trials Drama! (6:24)
- Compulsive gym hopping
- Miller and Moceanu injury petitions
- All those heartbreaks (Kulikowski! Jennie Thompson! Kristy Powell!)
- JUICY, JUICY 1996 FLUFF (15:59)
- "Little girls dancing for gold" (Jessica has some feelings)
- Romania apparently training inside Dracula's castle
- "Just Shannon" and Shannon's epic snapback
- Racist propaganda fluff about Mo Huilan
- Putting Dominique Moceanu on a seesaw for some reason
- The competition (35:40)
- The important debate: who's better, John Tesh or Al Trautwig?
- How unbelievably super awesome the US team was on bars
- Romania's endless injury drama
- Karolyi legs and form nostalgia
- What we think every time we see the Moceanu parents
- Deep thoughts about Geza Pozar floor routines
- Why Svetlana Khorkina is better than all of us in every way
- THE VAULT HEARD ROUND THE WORLDĀ
- A second-by-second breakdown of the Kerri Strug vaults
- The Strug parents (clap clap clap, chop chop chop)
- What Bela said to Kerri after her vault
- Did she actually do it on one leg?
- Should Kerri have been allowed to vault again when the US would have won anyway? (1:40:49)
- Was Russia not able to hear the floor music? Did it matter?
- The worst, most unprofessional, unsafe scene you've ever seen
- The GALAĀ (1:47:54)
- The US group dance to the YMCA and the Macarena. It happened.
- The biggest cheer than anyone has ever received
- Sexy Alexei's pommel horse
- Khorkina's epic bars dismount
- Fairytale endings! (1:52:33)
- Where are they now?
RELATED LINKS
- Spencer's Meet Recap:Ā 1996 TEAM FINAL: AND SHE DID IT ON TWO LEGS
- Spanny Tampson: 73 Thoughts We All Had During 1996 Team Finals
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | the way they make it seem and they emphasize things like she lives |
| 0:05.1 | 1500 miles away from her parents can you believe it? I'm like yes I can believe it |
| 0:10.4 | it's called everyone who goes to to Carolis and travels across the country |
| 0:13.9 | and lives with the host family that happens all the time in the US it did then and it |
| 0:19.4 | does now. Now. |
| 0:37.0 | Welcome to a commissioned episode 255 for June 14th, 2017, all about the 1996 Women's Team Finals. |
| 0:43.0 | Welcome to Jincastical number one gymnastics podcast in the world. |
| 0:44.1 | I'm Jessica and I'm here with Spencer |
| 0:45.8 | from the Balance Beam situation. |
| 0:48.1 | Before we get into the recap, Spencer, |
| 0:50.4 | let's remind everybody about the contest. |
| 0:53.2 | Yes, we have a contest going on right now |
| 0:55.5 | where you can win a one of a kind, bespoke, |
| 1:00.3 | cannot be purchased anywhere, |
| 1:02.3 | leotard, custom leotard, a custom sized leotard, with the |
| 1:07.7 | gymnastic logo in crystals on it. |
| 1:11.0 | I cannot emphasize enough how cool and amazing this is. All you have to do |
| 1:16.6 | is tell us who you would want to compete against in your custom made gymcast Leo could be anyone living or dead, active or |
| 1:27.1 | retired, fictional or non-fictional, tell us who you would want to compete against and tag Jim Kastic and tag Rebecca's mom's leotards and do that either on Twitter or Instagram. |
| 1:40.0 | Let us know somehow so we know that you exist and you have to do that by June 25th and |
| 1:45.6 | we'll announce a random winner the last Wednesday in June which is the 28th. |
| 1:51.1 | Oh my God it's so cool. |
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