This is episode 19 for February 6th 2013. I'm Jessica. I'm Spanny Tamsen.

I'm Uncle Tim and this is the best and only gymnastics podcast in the universe

and we're going to do something different today. We are going to go straight into

our interview with Andrea Radicon and we'll do NCA review after that here it comes.

So before we start the interview let's go back in time for a minute to the 2000 Olympics.

So Horckina had won the 95 and 97 world championships in the all-around.

She'd been European champion leading up to the games. Everybody thought this was her games.

The meet starts, the all-around

final start. Horkin is leading. She had one prelims. She goes to vault. The vault is

set at the wrong height. Nobody realizes it. She falls, dreams dashed, it's over

over everyone thought she was a sure winner

she's out now she goes to bars she's clearly totally distraught falls on bars again

her best event and then Rodicon went on to vault

with the vault at the wrong height and did fine. Fast forward the Australian

gymnast told everybody hey the vault at the wrong height, let's fix it, it's

fixed everyone is allowed to vault again if they had already vaulted, but of course the damage

was already done, Horkina had already gone on to bars and competed on bars and fallen.

They didn't change the rules to say, hey if you've already started on another event and done

badly because your dreams and hopes were dashed by the vault

being at the wrong height, then you can do the second event over again too.

They just let people repeat the vault.

So that started the whole sham that was the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.

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