Hey, everyone. This is a serialized story, so if you haven't listened from the

beginning, go back to episode one and start from there. Previously, on blind

landing, you don't just dream of going to the Olympics, you dream of going to

the Olympics and meddling. The summer Olympics should underway.

Televised to 3.7 billion people. First event, vaults. I barely even touched my

fingertips. She'd never not made a vault. I basically landed on my back.

No part of that was normal. You fall in Olympic games like, game over. What

do you say to an athlete that dreams or gone in a blink of an eye?

At least Ray might have been the first gymnast to fall on fault during the

2000 Olympic all-around final, but she was definitely not the last. Eat people

fell, which was inexplicable and unprecedented. Something was very wrong. And it

would take one of the youngest and least experienced gymnasts in the

competition to figure out what it was. I'm Ari Saperstein and this is Blind

Landing, the untold story of one of the biggest mistakes in Olympic history.

Episode 2. We never really discussed Sydney Olympics and what happened. I don't

know whether it's still hard for people to live through. I have never heard

anybody else's narrative. It's not a topic we've ever discussed anywhere in

the gymnastics world, not with any of my international friends, not with my

Australian teammates, not at all. This is formerly gymnast, Alana Slider. And this

is really her first time talking this in depth about her Olympic experience.

And just like with Elise in our first episode, Alana's story, it actually starts

before the 2000 games. Obviously there was a huge build-up to a home game, so

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