The History of Romanian Gymnastics (Commissioned)
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🗓️ 1 December 2021
⏱️ 115 minutes
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THE HISTORY OF ROMANIAN GYMNASTICS
This episode has been commissioned by Nico T.L., who requested an episode on the history of Romanian gymnastics, from the pre-Nadia era (huhhhh?) to the present. We discuss:
- Mythbusters: Romanian gymnastics started with Nadia
- The 60s: Boycotts and Romanian Gymnastics Jail
- How Nadia changed the difficulty game
- Scandals: The Romanian walkout at 1977 Euros, the 1981 Agache/Szabo identity swap, and most shocking of all, floor routines choreographed by Martha
- The age of Silivas, Dobre, and the single greatest Romanian team of all time
- URGENT: Ballet Beats
- WATCH ALONG: Popa, Voinea, and Potorac
- "Romania does boring, safe gymnastics guaranteed to win." Fact, fiction, or depends?
- WATCH ALONG: Marinescu and Olaru
- On Top of the World: Romania 2000-2004
- Did the open-ended code kill Romanian gymnastics?
- The 2012 team, Ana Porgras, and what could have been
- The 2015 Worlds incident
- Hope for a better future?
- Spencer and Jessica select their all-time Romanian dream teams
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REFERNCES
- The Balance Beam Situation 10 year GIFebration
- Rhythmic coach disciplined by FIG for violent behavior
- Gymnastics History, 1968: The Women's Compulsories Competition in Mexico City
- Romanian Coach, Gheorghe, convicted of manslaughter for beating gymnast to death during practice.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | After she salutes, but before she walks off the floor, |
| 0:02.9 | someone hands her a whip, |
| 0:04.4 | and she just drags it behind her as she walks off the floor. |
| 0:07.4 | Yeah, and then later Donatella makes a rule |
| 0:09.6 | like no whips may be included in any floor routine. |
| 0:13.2 | What an exit. |
| 0:15.7 | Remember, the show is PG-13, |
| 0:17.8 | so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
| 0:22.4 | Today, a history of Romanian gymnastics. |
| 0:25.8 | We will take you through a journey |
| 0:27.4 | from ballet beats the disco body roll warm-up. |
| 0:30.6 | They did it in the 80s, |
| 0:32.1 | all the way through the perm years to panor and present day. |
| 0:36.1 | Romanian gymnastics jail, |
| 0:37.8 | not invented by Australia and North Korea, |
| 0:40.4 | that time that the crullies didn't go to jail |
| 0:42.8 | for criminal fraud, |
| 0:44.2 | and we select our all-time Romanian dream teams. |
| 0:47.9 | This is episode 71 for 2021, |
| 0:50.7 | the week of November 29th, |
| 0:52.0 | and welcome to the number one gymnasium podcast |
| 0:54.4 | in the galaxy. |
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