Uncle Tim's Mythbusters

GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

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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