Dumbest Rules in Gymnastics (Paris Quad Edition)

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🗓️ 25 December 2024

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Gymnastics' Dumbest Rules (Best of GymCastic)

Recorded in June 2023. We’re calling out the worst, stupidest, most self-defeating and awkward rules and conventions in gymnastics, starting with...

Leotard Rules - aka the Olympics of regulating women's bodies
- Venture with us to a world where "elegant," "proper," and "modest" are all words found in the official rule book of a competitive sport in the year 2023—and breasts are expressly prohibited
Why Is Gymnastics Still the Military?
- Saluting and lining up in front of the generals for inspection? Where are we? (with a Simone Paris update)
The Apparatus World Cup of Stupidity
- From the assumption that all women are the same height, to what the FIG considers to be "undisciplined and abusive behavior," to that thing where a double front doesn't fulfill the front tumbling requirement, we take on the worst rules on each event
Rules Mythbusters
- Things someone (usually Martha) pretended were rules, and everyone believed it, but they actually aren't
Plus, they may not be rules, but some old-fashioned and infantile gymnastics conventions are on our list!

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0:00.0	And also, what's wrong with boobs?
0:01.9	They're part of women's sports.
0:04.3	Let them be.
0:06.9	If we've learned anything from the drawings in the skill section of the code of points,
0:11.3	it's that breasts are prohibited.
0:14.1	That is, I mean, that's not written in the code of points,
0:17.0	but it's implied throughout the code of points.
0:20.4	Remember, this show is PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two.
0:24.3	The dumbest rules in gymnastics.
0:28.9	Rules your coach told you was a rule, but it's actually not code by code, apparatus by apparatus,
0:36.2	plus rule myth busters.
0:39.0	This is the dumbest rules in gymnastics episode.
0:43.2	And welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast in the galaxy.
0:46.6	I'm Jessica.
0:47.4	I'm here with Spencer from the balance team situation.
0:50.9	When we originally recorded this episode, we had only seen a deduction for failing to salute once at an Olympics.
0:58.1	But then Simone happened at the Paris Olympics in the beam final, and it was stupid at first, and then it turned great because she made up for it in spectacular fashion by saluting for a full 900 hours after the floor final and walking off the floor with her arms up still in salute as she triumphantly exited the Paris Olympics.
1:22.6	Please enjoy this episode about the dumbest rules in gymnastics.
1:28.3	In the whole wide world, and most of the rules are just the dumbest.
1:31.3	And we're like, why do you do this?
1:33.3	Why do we do this? Sure.
1:35.3	Can't stop, can't help it.
	...

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