382: 2020 Olympic Qualification with Prof. Spencer
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 23 August 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Spencer is alone this week for a comprehensive explainer of this comically complicated 2020 Olympic qualification process, answering all the questions you were too afraid to ask because you didn't quite understand them.
THE PROCESS
- How teams qualify to the Olympics from worlds
- How individuals qualify to the Olympics from worlds
- WTF the "Jade Carey route" is
- How the all-around world cups are different from the apparatus world cups and why they matter (AHHHHH)
- Why continental championships are so important in 2020
YOUR QUESTIONS
- Jade Carey?
- Sub-question: Jade Carey, Jade Carey, Jade Carey?
- How is the US going to qualify its fifth and sixth women to the Olympics?
- What will these non-team individuals even do at the Olympics?
- What should the US strategy be for that second individual spot?
- How does 2-per-country work at the Olympics with all these individuals?
- BUT WHAT HAPPENS IF THE US WANTS JADE CAREY ON THE TEAM OF 4?!?!?!
- Could the US send MyKayla Skinner and/or Sunisa Lee to apparatus world cups?
- Won't somebody PLEASE think about Becky Downie and Epke Zonerland??? (Yes.)
- What are the best chances for the US men to get extra Olympic spots?
- Which countries are going to end up with 6 athletes at the Olympics?
- How could this process be better? (All the ways?)
FURTHER READING
- The Most Difficult Bars Routines in the World
- Things Are Happening – August 16, 2019
- Simone Biles Difficulty Score Analysis
- The Scores: Post-Nationals Edition
- US Nationals: A GIFstory
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| 0:35.4 | Today, 2020 Olympic Qualification |
| 0:41.6 | finally explained and all of your questions answered. |
| 0:44.9 | At least hopefully, like maybe most of your questions will be answered. |
| 0:48.3 | This is episode 382 for August 21st, 2019 and welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast in the universe. |
| 0:56.2 | I'm Spencer and I am alone this week and it's great for a full nervous breakdown about |
| 1:02.4 | the knotted up septicose that is the 2020 Tokyo Olympic |
| 1:06.7 | qualification process for gymnastics. |
| 1:09.5 | So first of all, thank you to everyone who wrote in questions using the WTF 2020 hashtag, which is also |
| 1:16.4 | apparently something people use to talk about like how the US is exceptionally terrible in every |
| 1:21.2 | way or something, so that was not that helpful as a |
| 1:23.0 | hashtag but still thank you for writing in note to self use a more specific hashtag. |
| 1:28.7 | Most of your questions had to do with Jade Carey because she's all anyone's talking about she has two Fendy |
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