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IT’S JAMIE DANTZSCHER YOU GUYS
In this full episode with Jamie Dantzscher, we discuss…
- Life with the Rybackis, why Jamie “left,” and why she came back
- How Jamie feels about their coaching now (spoiler alert: NOT GREAT)
- How weird it is that we still care about her 1999 floor music
- The bonkers 2000 Olympic selection process
- Speaking out publicly about Bela—then, later, and now—and a current sense of vindication
- Why Bela took her off bars in qualification in Sydney
- The INSANE story about why she didn’t salute after her team final floor routine
- Being awarded a retroactive Olympic bronze medal, how she feels about it, and that famous press conference
- The time a judge apologized to her for the corrupt scoring at nationals
- What skills she would have done if she competed in an open-ended code
- What her relationship with Vanessa Atler is like now
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I was Jamie’s teammate at CO Glider’s for 5 years and this interview is highly triggering. I sat on that wall for hours. I too, finally went home to the shock of everybody.