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. I learned about the wrongly set height of the vault only after I made

the mistake on bars. It ruined her potential for an all-around goal. Study again

would have bain the fairest option. That would be way more fair than just you

know tacking on an event and replacing that score. At the 2000 Sydney Olympics

during the women's gymnastics all-around competition the vault was set to the

wrong height. To address the mistake officials let gymnasts redo their

vaults but for many of those athletes their disastrous performance on the

flawed vault had shaken their confidence. They went on to fall on other events

too. Gymnasts wanted the entire competition to be started over and when it

wasn't a number of them left Sydney feeling frustrated saddened and confused

full of unanswered questions. In our first three episodes we mostly focus on the

gymnasts and now we're going to turn our attention to the officials and what

was happening behind the scenes. I'm Ari Saperstein and this is Blind Landing.

The untold story of one of the biggest mistakes in Olympic history.

Episode 4. The International Gymnastics Federation, known as the FIG, is the

governing body for gymnastics around the world. But not just artistic gymnastics

they also oversee sports like trampoline and acrobatics and even parkour. The

FIG is the oldest federation for any Olympic sport. They've been running

gymnastics since the first modern Olympic Games back in 1896. They make the

rules for the sport and they enforce them too. I reached out to the FIG to try and

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