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 the vaults the wrong height it's too low the vault set too low was

set too low it was two inches lower you know who goes to the Olympic Games and

thinks the equipment's going to be set up incorrectly if the horse is in the

wrong place even by a couple inches you're pretty well-duned

you know that's a lot of scary scary things that happen to a lot of girls

during the women's gymnastics all around final at the 2000 Olympics the vault

was set at the wrong height it was two inches too low and by the time the

problem was discovered eight gymnasts had fallen on vault this had never

happened before so there was no road map for what to do next and when officials

tried to make things right they picked the one solution that felt totally wrong

to the gymnasts I'm Ari Saperstein and this is blind landing the untold story of

one of the biggest mistakes in Olympic history

episode three what was the the solution that they told you at the time that you

mean that we could go back and do the event over again yes that was the solution

so we were told anyone that competed on the setting that was incorrect could go

back and repeat the events at least Ray was the first gymnast to fall on

vault during the all-around it was halfway through the competition before

officials realized the problem but they came up with a solution pretty quickly

a redo anyone who competed on the low vault would get to go again at the

end of the competition and if the if the vault setting was unheard of this was

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