Gymcastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

This week, we have another very special commissioned episode for you to sink your ears into. Loyal Club Gym Nerd member Robin helped support the show by asking us to talk about everyone's favorite competition, the meet that launched a million gym nerds, and probably the most important moment in the entire history of sports, the 1996 OLYMPIC WOMEN'S TEAM FINAL! Thank you so much, Robin! Jessica and Spencer discuss: Olympic Trials Drama! (6:24) Compulsive gym hopping Miller and Moceanu injury petitions All those heartbreaks (Kulikowski! Jennie Thompson! Kristy Powell!) JUICY, JUICY 1996 FLUFF (15:59) "Little girls dancing for gold" (Jessica has some feelings) Romania apparently training inside Dracula's castle "Just Shannon" and Shannon's epic snapback Racist propaganda fluff about Mo Huilan Putting Dominique Moceanu on a seesaw for some reason The competition (35:40) The important debate: who's better, John Tesh or Al Trautwig? How unbelievably super awesome the US team was on bars Romania's endless in