PARIS OLYMPIC TRIALS RECAP

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🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Jessica is back from Olympic Trials in Minneapolis, Spencer watched and scored every routine from home. Hear directly from athletes and selection committee member, Alicia Sacramone, in this episode. We discuss:

Why, for once, the rank all-around team is not controversial
Adult gymnast facts and returning all-around Olympic Champions Simone Biles and Suni Lee
The Women's Paris Olympic Team:
- Simone Biles
- Jade Carey
- Jordan Chiles
- Suni Lee
- Hezly Rivera
- Traveling alternates: Joscelyn Roberson and Leanne Wong
- Non-traveling alternates: Tiana Sumanasekera and Kaliya Lincoln
Injury armageddon taking out Shilese Jones, Skye Blakely and Kayla DiCello
The lows and highs from failing to honor all injured athletes to NBC doing something really cool with science
The Men's Paris Olympic Team:
- Asher Hong
- Stephen Nedoroscik
- Frederick Richard
- Brody Malone
- Paul Juda
- Traveling alternates: Shane Wiskus and Khoi Young
- Non-traveling alternates: Patrick Hoopes, Yul Moldauer and Donnell Whittenburg
Why Shane Wiskus went home early
Simone Biles' coach for 15 World and Olympic medals, including Olympic all-around gold, has a book coming out. Pre-order Aimee Boorman's book now.

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0:00.0	We have Olympic teams everything that happened at the 2024 Olympic trials and new
0:05.9	information the next day we got from athletes especially about injuries. It's July
0:12.0	3rd and welcome to the number one
0:13.8	gymnastics podcast in the galaxy. I'm Jessica and he was Spencer from the
0:17.6	balance beam situation where he live blogged trials and he has the
0:21.1	clickable code of points so you can learn all the skills let us
0:24.8	discuss the headlines first of all the team in order... Headlines what happened it was
0:30.3	such a boring week we have nothing to talk about. Headlines. In order of placement, the self-proclaimed redemption tour team is composed of.
0:42.0	Simone Biles, All-around winner.
0:44.0	Second place All-around at trial, Sunni Lee.
0:46.0	Third place all-around at trials, Jordan trials.
0:49.0	Fourth place all-around at trials,
0:51.0	Jade Carey.
0:52.0	Fifth place all-around at Trials,
0:53.2	at Trials, Hesley Rivera.
0:54.4	It's shocking.
0:55.1	They went in rank all around order.
0:56.6	I can't believe it.
0:57.3	No one told this coming.
0:59.5	This, so did any of the members of the selection committee say we are secretly relieved that they were obviously
1:07.8	were not really relieved people got injured but a little bit because it made the team selection so obvious?
1:12.0	Nobody said that.
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