Tokyo Olympics Women's Gymnastics Team Preview

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🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 113 minutes

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OLYMPIC PREVIEW PART 1: Teams

Today, we preview the 12 teams qualified to the women's competition at the Olympics: who's on them, expectations, storylines, and medal hopes.
- United States: How much of a fall buffer does the US have over everyone else? What records is Simone going to break, and when? And what 2-per-country problems should we start worrying about?
- Russia: How has this Russian generation closed the gap on the United States? Will Russia beat China for silver? Will a Russian win an all-around medal?
- China: How China is changing the tired narrative, both in age and event strength. You want 2-per-country drama? Check out the Chinese team trying to make the beam final.
- Japan: How will the team handle the host-country pressure? And how do we bring #JusticeforMai full circle?
- Italy: It's Vanessa Ferrari's 4th Olympics. Will a year of injuries compromise Italy's chance of another bronze medal?
All your US questions post-trials in a rapid-fire Q&A. Well, medium-fire. OK, slow-fire. Plus what happened to Charlotte Drury and many other trampolinists. We discuss why the women's alternates changed since Olympic Trials.
- France: It's Melanie time! Plus, can Boyer do it again? How will the team fare without Lorette Charpy?
- Canada: Never count out Ellie Black. The proper response to Brooklyn Moors' floor. How will an event-final focused selection strategy affect the team score?
- Netherlands: Eythora's voice-floor, Sanne's beam, and everything else about the most artistic team at the Olympics.
- Belgium: Will Nina win bars gold? Plus an intense breakdown of her very divisive floor routine.
- Germany: The sentimental underdogs of the Olympics bringing the age and unitard revolution. Also, why does Seitz not have more medals, and what are we doing about that?
- Spain: How do we get Roxana Popa back a floor final?

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0:00.0	Remember, the show is PG-13.
0:02.0	So you might hear a naughty word or two.
0:04.7	Today, the names have been submitted.
0:07.3	The deadlines are up.
0:09.4	The Olympics start in two weeks.
0:11.3	We are discussing the women's Olympic teams, all 12 of them.
0:15.4	And we're going to try to answer all of the questions
0:18.0	from the 31 pages of questions we got since US trials.
0:23.1	Who wins?
0:24.0	No one had a new box.
0:25.4	Ken McKayles, get her beer replaced.
0:27.2	By an alternate, can Jade beer replaced?
0:29.2	Why wasn't so-and-so selected?
0:30.8	How does this work?
0:31.7	We're going to try to get to all of your questions.
0:33.8	And please remember, the average age of the US women's team
0:36.9	is 20.8 years old.
0:39.6	And the Netherlands team, 26.75 years old.
0:43.2	Yay, for grown-ass women.
0:44.8	That will be the theme of today's podcast.
0:47.0	This is episode 35, everyone.
0:51.6	35 for 2021, year two of the pandemic.
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