Olympic Trials Party and Postmortem

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🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 120 minutes

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OLYMPIC TRIALS

The Olympic team has been named
- The 4th spot: Why "going by the scores" and "going by the all-around standings" are NOT the same thing
- The misunderstanding about the actual problem with Martha's way of doing things
- We make the arguments for both MyKayla Skinner and Grace McCallum for the Olympic team
- Why Tom Forster's explanation didn't help, and why the athletes didn't actually "select themselves"
  - Olympic Trials -- "Even though the computer tells us MyKayla on the team would be a couple of tenths higher, we're so so fortunate that our athletes are so strong that I don't think it's going to come down to tenths of a point in Tokyo. We didn't feel like it was worth changing the integrity of the process simply for a couple of tenths." - Tom Forster
  - US Championships, Jessica asked, "Regarding the two team positions that will be selected, is it going to be closer to the 3-up-3 count highest score potential or just the top four all-around?"
    - “Erm, well no, it will be.. you know the job is to put forth the strongest team that we believe can hit 3-up-3 count. And so, by rule, the top two all-rounders will be automatically on the team. And then Pro Score has a whole query system that shows us every possible scenario of team formation to get the highest score. So, we'll look at that to try to determine how to complete the team."
- The blatant self-sabotage that is the US women's use of the +1 spot
- Justice for Shilese Jones and Riley McCusker! Why did the women not select a 5th alternate?
- TIME Magazine enters the Hall of Shame
- A RAGE-O-METER that we swear we didn't write ourselves
The Actual Competition for a Second
- Sunisa Lee outscored Simone on day 2. We gush about her everything, with a reminder about gymnastics goldfish memories
- Jordan Chiles is the most consistent gymnast in the United States
- Sparing a thought for Leanne Wong's very important floor routine
- Who do we think got Senoh-bars-ed off the Olympic team?
- And update on Emily Lee, as well as Jade Carey's Olympic plans
The Men's Team
- We...agree with it? Good work, men's team.
- What went into the selection of Alec Yoder for the +1
- The case for selecting Alex Diab
- Comparing the men's selection process with the women's and what the women's program could learn from the men's

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0:00.0	judging issue as a whole other story because guess what? The guy who made the judging assignment
0:04.5	put two mark that two of his sons and his former gymnast on the floor judging when there were
0:11.5	higher ranked judges left at home. So when you want to talk about subjective judging, USA doesn't
0:17.2	even have their highest ranked judges on the floor at Olympic trials. Remember the show is PG-13.
0:23.4	So you might hear a naughty word or two. Whether or not you agree with the final team
0:28.5	is incidental. The problem is that the athletes did not have a clear understanding of how the
0:34.3	team was going to be selected. And that's a huge problem. We start this week with the wise words
0:40.6	of Pam Chankova. Welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast in the galaxy. I'm Jessica
0:46.0	and I'm here with Spencer from the balance team situation and Kenzie, our men's gymnastics expert.
0:50.0	This is episode 34 for the year of 2021, year two of the pandemic. And this is our we have the Olympic
0:56.9	teams post Olympic trials party slash post mortem where we dissect every nugget and analyze everything
1:05.8	and discuss what happened. Welcome to all of our new club gym nerd members, especially
1:10.4	there are new members from South Africa and Chile and I get to say Chile on the regular.
1:15.8	And for our new listeners that just found us, we are here every single week. Sometimes we're here
1:21.0	three times a week. We're always here two times a week. And we are going to be doing a podcast
1:27.3	every day of competition from Tokyo will be the only and first gymnastics podcast ever to go to
1:33.0	an Olympic games. And so if you're a club gym nerd member, get ready for that. And if you have
1:38.3	just found us, wait to see what we do at worlds in October because that worlds, we are able to send
1:43.8	our entire team. And we're amazing when we have our entire team. If you think it's our Olympic,
1:50.0	our Olympic trials coverage is good. Wait until we're all at a world. Also a reminder that we,
1:56.1	when we talk about the teams and we talk about team selections, we talk about team spots.
2:00.3	We are not criticizing the humans who do these the sport. We are talking about the decision makers.
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