270: World Championships Day 1 Men's Prelims
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 3 October 2017
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS DAY 1
Spencer, Lauren, Kensley and Jessica chat about:
- Watch all of our video coverage from Worlds here.
- Results
- Reminder: There's still one more subdivision for the men tomorrow featuring Brazil, South Korea, and the Netherlands among others, so things will change.
- Who's definitely making finals
- Who definitely isn't making finals
- Surprises and upsets
- Favorite moments
- Subdivision 1 - Oleg, Igor, Manrique, Bretschenider, Nguyen, Davtyan, Merdinyan, Petrounias, Beckford
- Subdivision 2 - US team, British team, Hegi, Braegger, Yusof, Ude, Seligman
- Subdivision 3 - JPN team, CHN team, RUS team, Dragulescu, Zapata, Ait Said, Tommasone, Bertoncelj
- What went on inside the arena
- State of our pre-competition storylines
- Oleg v. Kohei – is it a rematch?
- Is Kenzo an all-around gymnast now?
- Miyachi and Bretschneider – race for the "Bretschneider II"
- Possible US upgrades - Penev TTY, Mikulak triple back 1/1
- Max Whitlock pommel horse upgrades
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Tumble Track is proud to sponsor this coverage of the 2017 Gymnastics World Championships. |
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| 0:27.1 | Today we are here in Montreal, Canada, at the 2017 World Championships. This is episode |
| 0:32.5 | 270 for October 2nd, 2017. And welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast in the galaxy. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm Jessica, and I'm here with Spencer from the balance beam situation, |
| 0:44.4 | Lauren Hopkins from the Jimter.net, and Kenzley, hello, |
| 0:48.8 | who has run a lot of men's meets and knows more about men's gymnastics than all of us. |
| 0:52.5 | So she is going to save the day today. |
| 0:55.3 | I hope you guys have been enjoying our amazing, incredible, fantastic video coverage, |
| 1:00.9 | interviews, analysis, previews that has all been brought to you by TumbleTrac and the amazing |
| 1:05.5 | Deanna Hong and her fantastic assistant, Alicia. Thank you guys so much. Check it out all on YouTube and all of our social media. |
| 1:13.0 | Let's get into what you guys thought of today. |
| 1:16.5 | I just want to know your very first thoughts, Spencer. |
| 1:22.1 | The third subdivision was the most depressing thing in the entire world. |
| 1:27.1 | Everyone broke. We'll get into it, |
| 1:29.2 | but most important destruction was Kohei Uchimura. Valt. We thought it was okay. He kind of just |
| 1:38.7 | landed short maybe, and then he starts to walk away and he's limping. |
| 1:44.9 | There were people swooning, fainting of horror in the crowd. |
| 1:48.8 | The Japanese press around us had several heart attacks and connobsion fits. |
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