417: Bye Bye Tokyo 2020

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🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 91 minutes

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NO MORE TOKYO 2020

Via the IOC's longest-serving member, Dick Pound, we learned that the 2020 Tokyo Olympics have been postponed. It's been a long year this month, so Jessica has a list of Dick Pound jokes to get us through. It's most of the episode. After that, we discuss

Why it was important to postpone
Gymnastics implications
- Should the new 2021 seniors now become eligible for the Olympics?
- What code of points should be used?
- How should the unfinished qualification process be resolved?
- What of the 2021 world championships in Copenhagen?
Which athletes are most affected by this, negatively and positively?
Plus, McKayla Maroney opens up about the circumstances of her father's death and releases her debut single, a rundown of the dumpster fire news, Bart has an adult gymnastics challenge for you, and Full Out 2 has been released

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0:00.0	Remember the show is PG-13 so you might hear a naughty word or two.
0:05.4	Today we got word from the IOC's longest serving member, Dick Pound, who informed us that the
0:12.2	Tokyo Games will be postponed. How far in the future is
0:16.9	far enough to be safe? What rules will apply? Will the code be frozen? Will the current
0:23.4	current juniors be allowed to qualify senior next year and compete for spots?
0:27.2	There are a million questions that we have but first obviously we need to sort out our feelings. This is episode 417 for March 24, 2020, mid-quarantined
0:39.8	United States, and welcome to the number one gymnastics
0:42.9	podcast in the universe here to lift your spirits and get
0:46.3	through this together.
0:47.9	I'm Jessica and I'm here with Spencer from the balance beam
0:50.6	situation and Kensley are men's gymnastics expert who just got back to the
0:54.8	country and time before they closed all of the borders. Let's begin with postponed Olympics.
1:03.0	Yes, so as of today when we're recording this, we learned that IOC member Pound. And I feel like normally I would pretend like I'm mature enough to blow past that. Well, don't worry about it. But I just really, I think in a time like this we truly need to just talk about the name
1:26.4	Dick Pound for a while.
1:27.4	Do we?
1:28.4	Yeah.
1:29.4	We do.
1:30.4	I mean I think you especially need this Jessica. I do. I mean I think you especially need this Jessica I do I mean yeah he is the longest serving member and
1:38.0	Yes, I mean you know Dick pound knew it would be too hard to go on so you know he made the call.
1:46.5	Warning. This podcast discusses gymnastics in a frank and adult manner. You have been warned.
1:57.0	Yes. I am impressed that for once Dick Pound is stopping disease instead of being the cause of
2:07.6	disease in the Olympic Village. Too far? Two labored? That was a little late.
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