308: 2004 Olympic All-Around Final (Commissioned)
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2018
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
This week's episode is commissioned by Club Gym Nerd Member Emily, who asked for an episode all about the 2004 Olympic All-Around final: "This meet made me fall in love with gymnastics. SO. MANY. TEARS." We begin this week with our 100% live, real-time commentary on the competition itself, AS WE WATCH IT. So, if you want to sync up and watch the meet along with us like the cozy little family we are, follow THIS LINK and press play when we tell you to press play. We have a heaping pile of thoughts about Khorkina (obviously), Carly, Pavlova, Romania, China, Ukraine, Le Pennec, Slater, and some of the worst leotards...just ever. After the commercial break we pick up the broadcast at the 58:17 time stamp. But that's not all! We'll also break down the epic NBC fluff (Deva castle, Round Lake-Chernobyl, Khorkina inventing hallways, reality show opening credits, a diva is magical—the usual), one of Trautwig's worst moments ever, and poor Carly's cringe-worthy appearance on Letterman following her gold medal (Part 1, Part 2).
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Simple Contacts. |
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| 0:11.3 | Today we have a very special commissioned episode all about the 2004 Olympic |
| 0:19.3 | All Around Final. |
| 0:21.4 | This is episode 308 for June 13th 2018 and welcome to the number one |
| 0:26.8 | gymnastics podcast in the world. I'm Jessica and here with Spencer from the |
| 0:31.3 | balance beam situation. |
| 0:33.2 | And today our episode has been commissioned by club gym nerd member |
| 0:37.1 | Emily who requested an episode all about the 2004 Olympic |
| 0:40.3 | all-around final. |
| 0:41.8 | She says this meet made me fall in love with gymnastics, so many tears. |
| 0:48.0 | Thank you so much for letting us do this, Emily. |
| 0:52.0 | Club gym-nurd members like Emily help us pay the bills and |
| 0:54.5 | deliver our weekly podcast and exciting coverage of events. If you'd like to become |
| 0:58.8 | a club gym nerd member see the details at gymcastic.com under the Support Us tab. You can join for as little as $2 a month or $20 a year |
| 1:07.7 | and there are membership tiers all the way up to Intergalactic Champion and those like Emily can commission full episodes. |
| 1:15.7 | So we're going to start with our 100% live real-time commentary on the competition, followed by we'll do a little wrap up and analysis and some bonus |
| 1:26.0 | goodies like Fluff discussion. |
| 1:28.6 | So we're going to link to the coverage in the show notes, so wherever you're listening or you can go |
| 1:32.2 | to Jimcastic |
| 1:32.8 | dot com and listen and if you want to sink up with us and watch along you can do that |
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