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The 2000 Olympic Trials

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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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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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