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🗓️ 15 April 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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We have news! The FIG announced the changes in procedure for the 2021 Olympic qualification process, so Jessica and Spencer pop in for a brief rundown of what they decided, breaking down the good (code of points! Copenhagen!) and the bad (age eligibility! Baku!) and how it will affect the process over the next 15 months.
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| 0:00.0 | Remember this is PG-13 so you might hear a naughty word or two. This is what I feel like is so unfair about this because this is supposed to be the 2020 Olympics postponed. So everything should be the same. When you allow a whole |
| 0:15.4 | other group of competitors in, that's not a postpone Olympics. That's a |
| 0:19.0 | 2021 Olympics. It's totally different. This is episode 421, mini news episode all about the FIG's |
| 0:32.3 | announcement that they will be letting 2020 juniors who will be |
| 0:38.1 | seniors in 2021 compete in the Olympics and Galaxy I'm Jessica here with Spencer from the balance beam situation and you guys have two |
| 0:55.2 | episodes this week we have an interview with Jamie Dancher which is like huh there were |
| 0:58.9 | tears at the end amazing and also she and Spencer likes their twins. It's uncanny. |
| 1:08.0 | Several times me and Spencer are looking at each other like, is she you? |
| 1:12.0 | It's fantastic but let's get to the issue at hand which is the |
| 1:18.6 | FIG and me being very upset. So Spencer, walk us through it. |
| 1:23.4 | Yes. |
| 1:24.1 | We got all of the information from the FIG |
| 1:27.2 | about how the Olympics will work now |
| 1:29.4 | that they're going to be in 2021. |
| 1:31.4 | If you guys listen to our behind the scenes episodes for Club |
| 1:34.4 | Gym nerd members the most recent one we talked about this a little bit but |
| 1:37.0 | then we were like we can't because this is information that has to be for |
| 1:40.1 | everyone because very important. So we'll start with the good stuff, the normal fine stuff |
| 1:48.2 | that we don't have to like argue about or really parse through. |
| 1:50.6 | Because first of all, the FIG said that the code of points used at the 2021 Olympics will be the 2017 to 2020 code of points. |
| 1:58.4 | So they're just going to extend that the current code of points for an extra year and then start a new code of points in |
| 2:04.5 | 2022. This is the only acceptable decision if the 2020 code and then for especially |
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