Gymnastics is well aware of its role in the wider Olympic ecosystem: to have judging drama. That's why we are here. We explain judging scandals offering simplifications that normies can understand; prompting them to go on and have very strong and newly informed opinions about. So… the biggest judging scandals in Olympic gymnastics history We discuss:

00:01:14 - Rebeca Andrade (BRA) video fo Triple Twisting Yurchenko

00:04:11 - Biggest judging scandals in Olympic gymnastics history, setting the stage for Paris

00:05:13 - The Case of the Ill-Given Gold: 2004 Yang Tae-Young lost gold because of judging error

00:13:23 - The Case of the Bogus Bronze: Drăgulescu give impossible score knocking Shewfelt to fourth

00:18:45 - The Case of the Sexy Stoppage: Alexei Nemov's score causes crowd to protest and judges to adjust his score

00:23:45 - Fallout from the multiple men's judging scandals at the 2004 Athens Olympics

00:26:03 - Can you still get a 10.0 score in Olympic gymnastics?

00:28:00 - How to spell the Chéng vault correctly

00:32:15 - The Case of the Accused Australian: When Nastia and He Kexin tied for bars gold

00:37:58 - The Case of the Diabolical Dismount: 2012 London Team Final, Kohei's botched dismount and waving money at the judges

00:44:56 - The Case of Bela's Bullshit: 1980 Olympic All Around disputed victor

00:51:36 - How non-controversies get started, revisiting 1980 Olympic news article

00:55:55 - The Case of the Convenient Communist: For years the wrong story was told about the 1968 Mexico City Olympic all-around Caslavska vs Petrik

01:03:34 - New Rules for Paris Olympics

01:17:08 - Gymternet News 01:18:51 - Elvira Saadi’s lifetime ban upheld

01:19:41 - Livvy Dunne is staying at LSU and we get to see more of her beautiful form

01:22:22 - Simone Biles Rio Olympic coach has a new book out

Simone Biles' coach for 15 World and Olympic medals, including Olympic all-around gold, has a book coming out. Pre-order Aimee Boorman's book now.

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