One Year To Paris
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 25 July 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
- The FIG has opened a pathway for Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete in 2024 and (potentially) qualify to the Paris Olympics. We discuss what standards could be used to determine which athletes, if any, are eligible, and what this reveals about the FIG's motives
- US Classic news: The schedule for US Classic has been changed, as has the US women's qualifying score for nationals. What's up with that?
- Plus, an update on the saga of Heath Thorpe not being named to the Australian team for worlds
One Year to Paris
- It's time for an Olympic check-in! With one year to go to the opening ceremony, we discuss our general excitement level, our hopes and dreams, our NBC requests, and the biggest questions on our minds—which inevitably becomes a conversation about who can make the US team
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| 0:35.0 | The F-I-G votes to allow Russia to qualify to the Olympic Games. Olympic champion Sunnily is back on the |
| 0:42.4 | roster for classic as she just appeared and then she arrived again back in the classic roster. |
| 0:46.4 | Fan favorite Australian all around champion. He's Thorpe has been left off the Australian world team. |
| 0:51.8 | We have the official response from gymnastics Australia. It's one year to the Paris Olympics already. |
| 0:59.5 | So we're going to talk about what we can expect and our hopes and dreams. I have many, many wishes as you can imagine. |
| 1:05.3 | Many, many. This is our 30th episode for 2023. It's July 24th and welcome to the |
| 1:12.0 | number one gymnastics podcast in the galaxy. I'm Jessica and I hear a Spencer from the Balancing |
| 1:16.6 | situation and let's get right to the headlines which is so shocking. No one could see this coming. |
| 1:24.3 | Gasp. Gasp and alarms. So basically the big news I think in the international gymnastics world this |
| 1:32.0 | week. The F-I-G announcing that they are at the very least opening up the pathway for Russian and |
| 1:38.9 | Belarusian athletes to return to gymnastics competition starting January 1st, 2024. So in terms of |
| 1:49.2 | the Olympics, which is, you know, the first thing my mind goes to and I assume most people's |
| 1:54.3 | mind goes to I'm like, but what is this mean for the Olympics? So as we've talked about many times |
| 1:59.0 | Russians currently cannot qualify to the Olympics. If they're eligible to compete in 2024, |
| 2:04.7 | they would be eligible to compete at the final individual Olympic qualifiers in gymnastics. |
| 2:09.6 | As long as, well, they could always compete if gymnastics lets them. They would still need IOC |
| 2:15.5 | approval in order to be eligible to compete at the Olympics. The IOC has not said anything about |
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