Gymcastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

The hair Olympics! And also gymnastics. But mostly hair! This week, we have a commissioned episode from Club Gym Nerd member Billy, who asked for an episode all about the team competition at the 1988 Olympics saying, “have fun with all the 80s styles and music." We don't need to be told twice.  Setting the scene Check out last week's 80s FIGHT episode for all the Romanian/Soviet lead-up drama to the 1988 Olympics Updates on the age falsification discussion from last week, featuring Soviets who were underage too Jessica finds an excuse to talk about another HBO show she's obsessed with Here is a video of then-FIG President Yuri Titov lying about Elena Mukhina being paralyzed (Thank you, Boris for sending us this video) Compulsories - perfection and politics We gush about the wonders of compulsories and pick out the skills from the 1988 compulsory routines that we would put in our dream 2019 compulsories Because of being an insufferable form queen, Spencer freaks out about people's leg positions and fake 1