They had gymnasts finger paint their own flags for fluff pieces for an entire quad, you guys.

There was a three-foot-eight tall giant of a gymnast by Chunier from China, and Al Troutly couldn't shut up about it.

But there was Jim Acro passes.

The Perfect 10 was theoretically still possible. And we had the giants of the pre-Sydney Quad, Mochianu, Gojin, Radicon, Dan Tram, Maloney,

Alaru, Presicon, Atler, Aminar.

Welcome to a commission episode all about those 90s international team meets that we loved so, so, so, so much.

Welcome to Gymkastic, the number one to NASA podcast in the Galaxy.

I'm Jessica and I'm here with Spencer from the balance beam situation.

Spencer, this episode we have been looking forward to, especially since Club Jim Nerd

member Casey, basically gave us the most notes ever on this.

So can you give us the brief?

Yes.

Okay.

This commission from Casey on the international team championships, those friendly meets between the United States, Romania and China and also Australia one year, that took place from 1997 to 2000, please focus on the 1997 to 1999 women's meets.

Casey says, as a small town child gym nerd growing up in the Midwest without Cape Mill,

these meats were vital to my experience with the Sydney Olympics because they offered a rare

chance to see many future Olympians get to know their gymnastics and become a fan of theirs

over multiple years. Three members of the U.S. team and an alternate, Dancher, Maloney, Ray, and

Beckerman, three of the Chinese,

Lu Xuan, Lingjia, and Huang Mandan, five of the six Romanians, all of Lored, all but

Loredana Bobok, who competed in the junior meet in 1999, and three Australians went on to compete

in Sydney.

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