344: Shushunova vs. Silivas 1988 (Commissioned)
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GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 12 December 2018
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
The tie that wasn't a tie! This week's episode has been commissioned by Club Gym Nerd member RayRay, who requested an episode on "An Abundance of Shushunovas (TM Jessica) - The 1988 battle between Shushunova and Silvas." Thank you for letting us do this, RayRay! Psst: Don't worry, we haven't forgotten about the dumpster fire, so just a few words on that before we begin. We'll get into it in detail next week, but you can read the entire Ropes and Gray report here. WATCH: UK Coverage; US Coverage We discuss:
- Who won the AA battle, event by event, routine by routine
- Silivas's own thoughts about the hardest mats of all time
- Perms and shorterall leos and mullets — the big 3
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- Classic (i.e. horrifying) US fluff pieces
- Floor whisperers: We interpret the floor choreography with 100% accuracy
- The most 80s thing that has ever happened in history ever
- The SHOVE of victory
- Where are they now? Checking in with the main characters
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| 1:01.1 | Today, the tie that wasn't a tie. Shushinova. Today the |
| 1:05.0 | soul-Oshinova versus Sylevash, the sole Olympic all-around final in 1988. |
| 1:10.0 | This is episode 344 for December 12th, 2018. |
| 1:15.0 | And welcome to the Number One Gymnastics Podcast in the Galaxy. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm Jessica and I'm here with Spencer from the Balance Beam situation. |
| 1:22.0 | So a lot happened last week and today we record on Monday |
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