Uncle Tim's Mythbusters

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🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

MYTHBUSTERS

Today, Uncle Tim makes his triumphant return to the podcast to deliver a cornucopia of busted myths and preposterous facts that he has uncovered during research for gymnastics-history.com, including:
Why was the Sydney vault too low? We finally know!
The (less exciting) real story of Vera Caslavska, Larisa Petrik, and the 1968 floor final
A 1968 beam protest
A men's judging fight!
Plus, Jessica and Spencer go head-to-head in a gymnastics history True/False quiz

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I kind of feel like we should mention here actually as a final thought that there was a whole podcast series about
0:07.1	this incident and they didn't talk about this.
0:11.5	Remember this show is PG-13 so you might hear a naughty word or two.
0:16.0	Norberts has a sale on pink and royal blue domino cartwheel blocks. Go to norberts.net for 10 percent
0:23.6	discount on anything with the code Jimcastic may. Norberts is also having a giveaway
0:30.0	it's a 48 inch sectional beam. There's free delivery included in the US. Just follow Norberts
0:36.7	athletic on Instagram then like and comment on the giveaway post. The winner will be drawn on June
0:42.3	1st. Good luck. If you're like me and you've had to annotate all of your gymnastics books because of
0:47.6	the website, gymnasticshyphenhistory.com then this episode is for you. Entire judging panels replaced,
0:55.1	Olympics distributing the wrong scores, floors filled with rubber balls. It's Dr. Uncle Tim's
1:02.4	Mythbusters, the surprising history, correct history of gymnastics. This is episode 21 for the
1:10.4	week of May 23rd, 2022 and welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast in the galaxy,
1:15.8	Angesca and I'm here with Spencer in the balance beam situation and the triumphant
1:20.7	lead returning Dr. Uncle Tim PhD, one of the four original hosts of Jimcastic. If you've been
1:29.0	listening for all nine years that we've been around and all 10 million downloads not to brag,
1:35.4	we've flown past 10 million now. You will remember Uncle Tim from before he became a big
1:42.6	star PhD but now we have to call him Dr. he insists on it and he is back. So Uncle Tim, you have
1:54.4	been working on this amazing website called gymnastics hyphenhistory and I feel like you're
2:00.3	redoing your entire PhD this time but now you're doing it on gymnastics. Can you talk about what
2:06.8	the site is and what's like the most shocking thing you've learned in your research?
2:12.8	Yeah, so I am basically doing a deep dive on gymnastics history. I'm kind of jumping all over
2:21.4	the place. The original idea was to go deep on single years. Right now I'm doing the really old
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