Lessons Learned: The Paris Olympic Recap and Fix-It List

It wouldn’t be a meet recap without deep moral lessons, receipts, robots, prophesies and pantheons.

In this episode we discuss:

• • USAG no longer has a senior national team training center (juniors do).
  • FIG President, Watanabe, calls the floor final a tragedy. We’ll tell you what that means for the future.
  • How to implement robot judging properly.
  • Romania has filed an appeal against their own gymnast’s medal
  • From concussion protocols to lessons on being iconic, all the takeaways from Paris.
  • Washington Post gym nerd article on Simone Biles Domination Data

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        • Event Finals Day Two: Bars, Rings,  Men’s Vault live from Paris
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        • Women’s All Around Live from the Paris Olympic Games
        • Men’s All Around Final and Simone Biles Epic Clap Back at Skinner
        • Women’s Team Final Live from the Paris Olympic Games
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