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GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2022
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Headline News
- This week, Morgan Hurd blessed us with a double layout to make it all better, and we have a preview of our major exposé Project K—where gymnastics and spycraft run into each other at full speed inside 1970s Romania—which will finally be coming to your ears over the next two weeks.
NCAA Preview
- We're one month out from the NCAA season, and we're talking new first years like Kayla DiCello, eMjae Frazier, Faith Torrez, and more. Plus, which teams face the biggest upheavals in the 2023 season (cough, Georgia), why we're a little too excited about literally just some lines of tape, and the biggest storyline of the preseason: 5th-year transfers.
Mini-Commissions
- A mini-commission on the history of South African gymnasts at the Olympics and other major competitions: the biggest accomplishments and what the future holds
- A mini-commission on Soviet training conditions and techniques of the 1980s and how that resulted in pushing the limits of difficulty.
- Plus, all the gymternet news you need
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- Project K: Operation Olympia explained
- Project K: Decoding Romanian Secret Police Files on The Karolyis with Dr. Simona Petracovschi
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- Back from Liverpool
- Liverpool World Championships Event Finals and Mega Recap
- 10th Anniversary Reunion Show
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Ellen Berger was a very interesting person, what I discovered was that she hated Romanians. |
| 0:09.2 | So on the surface she was very nice and pleasant, and she visited the Romania very often. |
| 0:16.7 | But she and she wouldn't show, however in the documentation and in the records you can |
| 0:22.5 | find that she actually nurtured the strong K-thread towards Romanians. |
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| 0:36.8 | Tumple Tracks visit Tumple Tracks at TUMBL-TRA-AK-TumpleTrack.com. Train Smart. |
| 0:42.5 | Remember the show is PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
| 0:47.8 | We have a yourchenko double pike sighting. Project K is finally upon us. |
| 0:55.2 | A preview of our interview with Nadia and the secret police author Stége Larrou is coming the next two weeks and we have a preview for you. |
| 1:03.5 | South Africa and Soviet innovation mini-commissions. |
| 1:07.2 | Laurie and Charlotte finally made their relationship official official, even though we knew it was official. |
| 1:13.0 | Plus, College Gymnastic sees it right around the corner and Spencer has a preview for us. |
| 1:18.2 | Welcome to the No. 1 Gymnastic podcast. In the galaxy, I'm just going to be a Spencer from the Balanced Beam situation. |
| 1:24.7 | Someone recently asked me, I don't understand what the Balanced Beam situation is. |
| 1:28.5 | I was like, it's literally Spencer's website. Like, it's all the things in it's hilarious. |
| 1:33.7 | So, if you didn't know, that's what the Balanced Beam situation is. |
| 1:37.2 | So, let's talk about the most important things that happened this week. |
| 1:41.0 | Okay, No. 1, Morgan Heard's Double Layout at the Florida Hype Night Preview. |
| 1:47.2 | Hype Night is a much better thing to call it than Team Preview or Blue vs. Gold or Yellow vs. Purple or whatever. |
| 1:55.2 | Like, way better, way better. Yellow vs. Purple. Come on. |
| 2:02.0 | Yellow wins every time. |
| 2:04.0 | First of all, I finally feel like the Florida choreographer Jeremy got a gymnast who can perform his style the way it's meant to be performed. |
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