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?)

FURTHER READING

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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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