Soviet Gymnastics: Not the Specter of Evil (Commissioned)
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 13 April 2021
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
Club Gym Nerd member Casey has commissioned an episode all about the greats of Soviet Gymnastics, and how they weren't exactly the "specter of evil" that NBC told us they were.
- What do you think of when you think of Soviet gymnastics? Dominance? Ballet? Caviar?
- How the Soviet Union changed the game immediately upon attending the Olympics for the first time
- Top 10 Soviet Gymnasts of All Time. Make your pick. No redos. No takebacks.
- Prof. O'Beirne's history of the cold war. When did the USSR compete? What made them so successful? Are wolf turns their fault? And why don't we spend more time talking about Maria Tyshko, Galina Urbanovich, and Maria Gorokhovskaya?
- That time the Soviets lost, and the epic 1981 world championships cheating conspiracies
- What might have been for Elena Mukhina
- What would have happened if the Soviets had competed at the 1984 Olympics?
- Bogi, Chuso, the fall of the Soviet Union, and the lasting legacy
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- Things Are Happening – April 9, 2021 April 9, 2021
- Keeping Up with the Cool GIFs – Regionals April 7, 2021
- Top Scores of Regional Championships April 6, 2021
- Onward to Nationals April 6, 2021
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| 0:00.0 | Continuous. Continuous movement. There's never a pose. There's not a single |
| 0:05.3 | position. She doesn't worry about like hitting the position of the pose because she doesn't stop moving. |
| 0:11.7 | Right. And I mean, honestly, if you complain about conditioning and you're not in shape to do your |
| 0:17.0 | routine, watch a million checks floor, slap yourself in the face and go back into your conditioning. |
| 0:23.2 | Remember, the show is PG-13. So you might hear a naughty word or two. This episode is brought |
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| 0:50.3 | Today, they invented every biomechanical principle we use in gymnastics training today, |
| 0:57.6 | making each routine into art performing actual ballets as floor routines with difficulty that |
| 1:04.9 | elevated the sport miles beyond its time. They spoke out about toxic abusive training culture |
| 1:11.9 | 50 years before gymnast alliance. They fought Nazis in between workouts. They didn't shave their |
| 1:19.4 | armpits and competed with short sleeves. We owe them the artistic and artistic gymnastics and |
| 1:26.1 | the huge D in D-score, the Soviet Union, not the specter of evil gymnastics. Welcome to a |
| 1:33.2 | commissioned episode, season 21, episode 17, 16, 4, April 12, 2021. There were a lot of numbers |
| 1:43.6 | in there. It's so good with them. This is GymCastic, the number one gymnastics podcast in the galaxy, |
| 1:49.6 | and I'm Jessica, and I'm here with Spencer from the balance beam situation. I want to remind you |
| 1:55.6 | guys that we have two three episodes for you this week. Actually, we have the NCAA championships |
| 2:01.2 | preview this episode and then in between the sessions on NCAA sessions one and two on Friday, |
| 2:09.1 | we're going to have our live behind the scenes. That should be around new 1230 Pacific around them. |
| 2:16.1 | Anyway, whenever that one ends. Yes, we'll say 1230 Pacific. So let's get into the description of |
| 2:22.4 | this episode. So this is a commission episode by club gym nerd member Casey. Club gym nerd members |
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