Lessons Learned: The Paris Olympic Recap and Fix It list
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 28 August 2024
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
It wouldn't be a meet recap without deep moral lessons, receipts, robots, prophesies and pantheons. In this episode we discuss:
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- USAG no longer has a senior national team training center (juniors do).
- FIG President, Watanabe, calls the floor final a tragedy. We'll tell you what that means for the future.
- How to implement robot judging properly.
- Romania has filed an appeal against their own gymnast's medal
- From concussion protocols to lessons on being iconic, all the takeaways from Paris.
- Washington Post gym nerd article on Simone Biles Domination Data
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This show is rated PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
| 0:04.8 | Welcome to our Paris Olympic, lessons learned, recap, |
| 0:09.8 | what happens from here, and insane things that are still going on slash updates of all the |
| 0:15.8 | things these poor athletes have to suffer. It is August 27th and welcome to |
| 0:21.8 | the everyone to NASA's podcast in the galaxy. I'm |
| 0:24.1 | Jessica and hear with Spencer from the balance beam situation and let's start with |
| 0:29.0 | Just kidding before we get to that quick breaking news USA gymnastics no longer has a senior K in Katie, Texas. That facility will no longer be used for seniors. |
| 0:43.6 | Juniors will have camps at a second Stars location. I did reach out to USA Gymnastics |
| 0:49.1 | to ask for comment, but they were not able to meet our deadline, so we will keep following this story and let you know. |
| 0:55.5 | In the past when this happened when the Corioli Ranch |
| 0:58.2 | was shut down as a national team training center. |
| 1:01.6 | USA Gymnastics trained at a gym in Indianapolis and then they also trained at |
| 1:06.4 | LSU. I hope they go back to another college location because those are always the best facilities. |
| 1:14.6 | But the one they used in Indy did have a kitchen and that was good. |
| 1:18.9 | But anyway, I'll keep you updated on where the current Olympic gold medal winning national team camps will be in the future. |
| 1:29.0 | Okay. The FIG's president's Report that came out yesterday and we finally got a statement on the bronze cluster |
| 1:39.5 | fuggle essentially from President Watanabe, President of the FIG. |
| 1:45.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:46.0 | We promised like we'll do this and then like actually talk about other things from the Olympics as well. |
| 1:51.0 | But like there's a little bit of news and then we'll get it out of the way with this |
| 1:53.7 | and this bronze medal that we're all sick of talking about but are going to talk about for 90 more |
| 1:57.5 | years. So in this newsletter, what Nabi said, I'm going to read, I'll read his statement and then we'll talk about it. |
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