Biggest Olympic Judging Scandals and Paris Rules Update
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Gymnastics is well aware of its role in the wider Olympic ecosystem: to have judging drama. That's why we are here. We explain judging scandals offering simplifications that normies can understand; prompting them to go on and have very strong and newly informed opinions about. So… the biggest judging scandals in Olympic gymnastics history We discuss: 00:01:14 - Rebeca Andrade (BRA) video fo Triple Twisting Yurchenko 00:04:11 - Biggest judging scandals in Olympic gymnastics history, setting the stage for Paris 00:05:13 - The Case of the Ill-Given Gold: 2004 Yang Tae-Young lost gold because of judging error 00:13:23 - The Case of the Bogus Bronze: Drăgulescu give impossible score knocking Shewfelt to fourth 00:18:45 - The Case of the Sexy Stoppage: Alexei Nemov's score causes crowd to protest and judges to adjust his score 00:23:45 - Fallout from the multiple men's judging scandals at the 2004 Athens Olympics 00:26:03 - Can you still get a 10.0 score in Olympic gymnastics? 00:28:00 - How to spell the Chéng vault correctly 00:32:15 - The Case of the Accused Australian: When Nastia and He Kexin tied for bars gold 00:37:58 - The Case of the Diabolical Dismount: 2012 London Team Final, Kohei's botched dismount and waving money at the judges 00:44:56 - The Case of Bela's Bullshit: 1980 Olympic All Around disputed victor 00:51:36 - How non-controversies get started, revisiting 1980 Olympic news article 00:55:55 - The Case of the Convenient Communist: For years the wrong story was told about the 1968 Mexico City Olympic all-around Caslavska vs Petrik 01:03:34 - New Rules for Paris Olympics 01:17:08 - Gymternet News 01:18:51 - Elvira Saadi’s lifetime ban upheld 01:19:41 - Livvy Dunne is staying at LSU and we get to see more of her beautiful form 01:22:22 - Simone Biles Rio Olympic coach has a new book out Simone Biles' coach for 15 World and Olympic medals, including Olympic all-around gold, has a book coming out. Pre-order Aimee Boorman's book now. REPLAY TICKETS for OLYMPIC TRIALS LIVE SHOW ON SALE HERE Join Club Gym Nerd (or give it as a gift!) for: Weekly Q&A Behind The Scenes podcast, dedications, mini-commissions , group commissions, exclusive extended interviews, and College & Cocktails episodes. Plus discounts and first dibs on Live Show tickets and merch. Exclusive VIP section on the message board Forum More goodies: GymCastic newsletters 2024 College & Cocktails menu (including mocktails, of course) GymCastic Fantasy Games GymCastic Store clothing and gifts to let your gym nerd flag fly "tapestries" (banners, the perfect to display your support in an arena) Baseball hats available now in the GymCastic store RELATED EPISODES Marian Drăgulescu Interview Kyle Shewfelt Kyle Shewfelt on his book, Make It Happen Olympic Trials Paris Olympic Team Trials Recap Women's Day Two: Olympic Team Named Men's Final Women's Day One Women's Podium Training Olympic Trials Stuff Photo Galleries Women's Final Women's Podium Training Women's Day 1 Men's Day 1 Olympic Trials Gymnastics Fantasy Game U.S. Championships Recap Day Two U.S. Championships 2024 Day One U.S. Championships 2024 Podium Training U. S. Championships 2024 Day One Photo Gallery Podium Training Photo Gallery Men's Day One Photo Gallery 2024 U.S. Classic Recap Podcast with Denis Vachon U.S. Classic Post-Meet Immediate Reactions Behind The Scenes: Podium Training 2024 U.S. Classic RESOURCES Spencer's Clickable Code of Points Highest scoring team machine from Emily Giambalvo at the Washington Post What Scores Get You a Medal How to Build The Paris Olympic Team The Highest scores, D scores and World Cup rankings at The Gymternet Gymnastics History and Code of Points Archive from Uncle Tim Men's Gymnastics coverage from Kensley Neutral Deductions MORE WAYS TO LISTEN HERE