The 2000 Olympic Trials
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
2000 Olympic Trials
This week, we have a group commission from Brianna, Stephanie, Atwood, Laura, Karla, and Emma, all about [deep breath] the collective nightmare that was the 2000 Olympic Trials. We discuss:
- The breaking news that there actually was official selection criteria, and it was technically followed.
- The significance of 2000 Trials as the worst thing that has ever happened ever, the controversy of the selection process, the low point this represented in athlete-first commentary, and just...the Bela of it all
- Shannon's comeback
- What if Atler had been able to compete on the "new" vault?
- The way the commentators talk about Alyssa Beckerman
- The infamous Rybacki fluff piece
- DLO + Punch front
- Shannon's vault injury
- BEIGE DRAPES
- Steve Nunno's performance piece
- The Moceanu sadness forest
- Why they selected the team they did, and was it the right call?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Remember, the show is PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
| 0:03.9 | The 2000 Olympic Trials, where the athlete rep on the selection committee |
| 0:09.3 | refused to certify the team, and USCUG announced the team anyway. |
| 0:14.4 | The 2000 Olympic Trials, while Bella Carole told Vanessa Atler, |
| 0:17.9 | don't worry. That's why I'm on the selection committee. In case something happens, |
| 0:22.4 | I can put you on the team. We'll discuss the actual selection criteria. |
| 0:27.4 | They're fairly well done. Versus the shenanigans of agents, coaches, |
| 0:31.1 | parents, USCUG, and of course, the athlete last commentary of our beloved NBC. |
| 0:37.6 | This is episode 53 for the year 2021, and welcome to the never-want-to-dancing |
| 0:43.5 | podcast in the galaxy. I'm Jessica, and you're with Spencer from the |
| 0:47.2 | Balanced Beam situation. Today's episode is a group commission, |
| 0:52.2 | commissioned by... Oh, I'm reading the name. You're reading the name. |
| 0:57.2 | So I don't mess them up, so they're obviously... Okay, well, I'll mess them up too, |
| 1:00.3 | because we don't know. Brianna, Stephanie, Atwood, Laura, Carla, and Emma. |
| 1:05.6 | Thanks, you guys. If you guys want to support the show and commission, |
| 1:11.4 | we have a bunch of group commissions up at jincathac.com to join the club |
| 1:16.4 | tab. There's a bunch of stuff on, and really, what we want to do next is either spit fire, |
| 1:22.4 | where there is a triple-back onto one bar, or we want to do that murder-soviet round-blank |
| 1:31.4 | movie in Russian. So you guys make our dreams come true. That's what we'd like to do. Okay, |
| 1:38.0 | so a reminder for how these Olympic trials, the format of the Olympics. So because when we're |
| 1:43.9 | looking at the Olympics, right, because when we're looking at the Olympic trials, |
| 1:47.5 | you have to take the rules into account. Whoa, you're just like trying to decide who the |
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