Tokyo Olympic Gymnastics Qualifying Process Explained
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Spencer is alone this week for a comprehensive explainer of this comically complicated 2020 Olympic qualification process, answering all the questions you were too afraid to ask because you didn't quite understand them.
THE PROCESS
- How teams qualify to the Olympics from worlds
- How individuals qualify to the Olympics from worlds
- WTF the "Jade Carey route" is
- How the all-around world cups are different from the apparatus world cups and why they matter (AHHHHH)
- Why continental championships are so important in 2020
YOUR QUESTIONS
- Jade Carey?
- Sub-question: Jade Carey, Jade Carey, Jade Carey?
- How is the US going to qualify its fifth and sixth women to the Olympics?
- What will these non-team individuals even do at the Olympics?
- What should the US strategy be for that second individual spot?
- How does 2-per-country work at the Olympics with all these individuals?
- BUT WHAT HAPPENS IF THE US WANTS JADE CAREY ON THE TEAM OF 4?!?!?!
- Could the US send MyKayla Skinner and/or Sunisa Lee to apparatus world cups?
- Won't somebody PLEASE think about Becky Downie and Epke Zonerland??? (Yes.)
- What are the best chances for the US men to get extra Olympic spots?
- Which countries are going to end up with 6 athletes at the Olympics?
- How could this process be better? (All the ways?)
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- Things Are Happening – August 16, 2019
- Simone Biles Difficulty Score Analysis
- The Scores: Post-Nationals Edition
- US Nationals: A GIFstory
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| 0:48.0 | Today we will explain and by we I mean Spencer will explain |
| 0:52.3 | how teams qualify and individuals qualified to the |
| 0:55.0 | 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. |
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