Live on location in Paris from the Bercy Arena, Jessica reports on the competition today and on her interviews with athletes. Plus we have lots of behind the scenes news from the Paris Olympics to share.

• The first Olympic Champions have been crowed in the men's team final
• A major update in the story of the French women's team
• Get tickets to our Paris Live Show. Here is our full Olympic podcast schedule 
• For the full episode login to your Club Gym Nerd account to reveal the member podcast. Here's how to ask questions live. Can't make it live? Add all the exclusive Club Gym Nerd bonus content to your favorite podcast player -  instructions here. Not a member? Join here. Non-member version available after the live. LINKS & ARTICLES
  • What Scores Get You a Medal
  • How to Build The Paris Olympic Team
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  • • • • Women’s Podium Training Live From The Paris Olympic Games
        • Paris Olympic Preview and Olympic Judging Evaluation System (part two)
        • Judging The Judges: How Judges Are Chosen For the Olympic Games
        • Biggest Olympic Judging Scandals and Paris Rules Update
        • Behind The Scenes: Back from Trials
        • Paris Olympic Trials Recap
        • Men’s Olympic Team Trials 2024 and Women’s Updates
        • U.S. Olympic Trials 2024: Women’s Day One
  RESOURCES 
  • Spencer's Clickable Code of Points
  • Gymnastics History and Code of Points Archive from Uncle Tim
  • The Highest scores, D scores and World Cup rankings at The Gymternet
  • Men's Gymnastics coverage from Kensley Neutral Deductions
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Live on location in Paris from the Bercy Arena, Jessica reports on the competition today and on her interviews with athletes. Plus we have lots of behind the scenes news from the Paris Olympics to share.

• Who qualified and who did not; surprise, heartbreak and triumph
• Simone Biles potential injury and what Cecile Landi and Chellsie Memmel had to say post-meet
• Jade Carey's statement 
• Was there something up with the bars in rotation one?
• Get tickets to our Paris Live Show. Here is our full Olympic podcast schedule 
• For the full episode login to your Club Gym Nerd account to reveal the member podcast. Here's how to ask questions live. Can't make it live? Add all the exclusive Club Gym Nerd bonus content to your favorite podcast player -  instructions here. Not a member? Join here.
•  Behind The Scenes is a weekly Q&A live podcast and post-meet live exclusive. It's all part of the bonus content for our Club Members who supporting our work year around. LINKS & ARTICLES
  • What Scores Get You a Medal
  • How to Build The Paris Olympic Team
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  • • Weekly Q&A  Behind The Scenes podcast, dedications, mini-commissions , group commissions, exclusive extended interviews, and College & Cocktails episodes. Plus discounts and first dibs on Live Show tickets and merch.
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    • GymCastic Fantasy Games
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    • Baseball hats available now in the GymCastic store
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  • • • • Women’s Podium Training Live From The Paris Olympic Games
        • Paris Olympic Preview and Olympic Judging Evaluation System (part two)
        • Judging The Judges: How Judges Are Chosen For the Olympic Games
        • Biggest Olympic Judging Scandals and Paris Rules Update
        • Behind The Scenes: Back from Trials
        • Paris Olympic Trials Recap
        • Men’s Olympic Team Trials 2024 and Women’s Updates
        • U.S. Olympic Trials 2024: Women’s Day One
  RESOURCES 
  • Spencer's Clickable Code of Points
  • Gymnastics History and Code of Points Archive from Uncle Tim
  • The Highest scores, D scores and World Cup rankings at The Gymternet
  • Men's Gymnastics coverage from Kensley Neutral Deductions
  MORE WAYS TO LISTEN HERE  
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Live on location in Paris from the Bercy Arena, Jessica reports on competition today and on her interviews with athletes. Plus we have lots of behind the scenes news from the Paris Olympics to share.

• Who qualified and who did not; surprise, heartbreak and triumph
• What Carlo Maccini (ITA) said about his high bar fall and the judges starting the remount clock while he was still down.
• Updates from the women's side including the health of Jade Carey's (USA) father and Pauline Schäfer (GER)
• Get tickets to our Paris Live Show. Here is our full Olympic podcast schedule 
• For the full episode login to your Club Gym Nerd account to reveal the member podcast. Here's how to ask questions live. Can't make it live? Add all the exclusive Club Gym Nerd bonus content to your favorite podcast player -  instructions here. Not a member? Join here. Non-member version available after the live. LINKS & ARTICLES
  • What Scores Get You a Medal
  • How to Build The Paris Olympic Team
  Join Club Gym Nerd (or give it as a gift!). It includes:
  • • Weekly Q&A  Behind The Scenes podcast, dedications, mini-commissions , group commissions, exclusive extended interviews, and College & Cocktails episodes. Plus discounts and first dibs on Live Show tickets and merch.
    • Exclusive VIP section on the message board Forum
  • More goodies:
    • GymCastic newsletters 
    • 2024 College & Cocktails menu (including mocktails, of course)
    • GymCastic Fantasy Games
    • GymCastic Store: clothing and gifts to let your gym nerd flag fly and even "tapestries" (banners, the perfect to display in an arena) to support your favorite gymnast!
    • Baseball hats available now in the GymCastic store
  RELATED EPISODES
  • • • • Women’s Podium Training Live From The Paris Olympic Games
        • Paris Olympic Preview and Olympic Judging Evaluation System (part two)
        • Judging The Judges: How Judges Are Chosen For the Olympic Games
        • Biggest Olympic Judging Scandals and Paris Rules Update
        • Behind The Scenes: Back from Trials
        • Paris Olympic Trials Recap
        • Men’s Olympic Team Trials 2024 and Women’s Updates
        • U.S. Olympic Trials 2024: Women’s Day One
  RESOURCES 
  • Spencer's Clickable Code of Points
  • Gymnastics History and Code of Points Archive from Uncle Tim
  • The Highest scores, D scores and World Cup rankings at The Gymternet
  • Men's Gymnastics coverage from Kensley Neutral Deductions
  MORE WAYS TO LISTEN HERE  
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Live on location in Paris from the Bercy Arena, Jessica will talk about what she saw at podium training today and in the training hall yesterday. Spencer will give us all the deep analysis. Plus we have lots of behind the scenes news from the Paris Olympics to share.

• New skills submitted and upgrades from Rebeca Andrade, Nina Derwael and Suni Lee
• Who won podium training: Jordan Chiles and Italy
• Sarah Voss diagnosis, Levi Jung Ruivivar's's terrifying emergency on Monday
• Who's floating in the opening ceremonies and living their best life in the village
• How Luisa Blanco ended up training at Suni Lee's gym in Minnesota
• For the full episode login to your Club Gym Nerd account to reveal the member podcast. Here's how to ask questions live. Can't make it live? Add all the exclusive Club Gym Nerd bonus content to your favorite podcast player -  instructions here. Not a member? Join here.
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• Behind The Scenes is a weekly Q&A live podcast and post-meet live exclusive. It's all part of the bonus content for our Club Members who supporting our work year around. LINKS & ARTICLES
  • What Scores Get You a Medal
  • How to Build The Paris Olympic Team
  Join Club Gym Nerd (or give it as a gift!). It includes:
  • • Weekly Q&A  Behind The Scenes podcast, dedications, mini-commissions , group commissions, exclusive extended interviews, and College & Cocktails episodes. Plus discounts and first dibs on Live Show tickets and merch.
    • Exclusive VIP section on the message board Forum
  • More goodies:
    • GymCastic newsletters 
    • 2024 College & Cocktails menu (including mocktails, of course)
    • GymCastic Fantasy Games
    • GymCastic Store: clothing and gifts to let your gym nerd flag fly and even "tapestries" (banners, the perfect to display in an arena) to support your favorite gymnast!
    • Baseball hats available now in the GymCastic store
  RELATED EPISODES
  • • • • Paris Olympic Preview and Olympic Judging Evaluation System (part two)
        • Judging The Judges: How Judges Are Chosen For the Olympic Games
        • Biggest Olympic Judging Scandals and Paris Rules Update
        • Behind The Scenes: Back from Trials
        • Paris Olympic Trials Recap
        • Men’s Olympic Team Trials 2024 and Women’s Updates
        • U.S. Olympic Trials 2024: Women’s Day One
        • U.S. Olympic Trials Podium Training 2024
  RESOURCES 
  • Spencer's Clickable Code of Points
  • Gymnastics History and Code of Points Archive from Uncle Tim
  • The Highest scores, D scores and World Cup rankings at The Gymternet
  • Men's Gymnastics coverage from Kensley Neutral Deductions
  MORE WAYS TO LISTEN HERE   

 

Full Paris Olympic Games gymnastics preview; teams, all-around, event medal favorites, the unbelievable scandal rocking the Japanese team and fluffy, heartwarming backstories. Plus, in part two of our interview, Dr. Hugues Mercier describes how the judges are selected for the Olympics Games with the F.I.G. Judge Evaluation Program (JEP) and what he thinks of the NCAA 10.0 system.

PARIS OLYMPIC PODCAST SCHEDULE here

 Simone Biles' coach for 15 World and Olympic medals, including Olympic all-around gold, has a book coming out. Pre-order Aimee Boorman's book now. 

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• • Daily live podcasts in Paris at the Olympic Games
    • GymCastic were the first and remain the only podcasters credentialed for the Olympic Games
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• Judging The Judges: Part One Hughes Mercier interview on Judges Evaluation System
• Interview with Simone Biles Rising director, Katie Walsh
• Simone Biles Rising docuseries review
• Biggest Olympic Gymnastics Judging Scandals
• Behind The Scenes: Back from Trials
• Behind The Scenes: Leos Liberated 

Olympic Trials

• • Paris Olympic Trials Recap 
  • Women's Day Two: Olympic Team Named
  • Men's Final
  • Women's Day One
  • Women's Podium Training
  • Olympic Trials Stuff
    • Photo Galleries
      • Women's Final
      • Women's Podium Training
      • Women's Day 1
      • Men's Day 1

2024 U.S. Classic Recap Podcast with Denis Vachon

RESOURCES 

• Spencer's Clickable Code of Points
• Highest scoring team machine from Emily Giambalvo at the Washington Post
• What Scores Get You a Medal
• How to Build The Paris Olympic Team
• The Highest scores, D scores and World Cup rankings at The Gymternet
• Gymnastics History and Code of Points Archive from Uncle Tim
• Men's Gymnastics coverage from Kensley Neutral Deductions

 

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Emmy winnig director, Katie Walsh talks about 

• Deciding what to show and dicusss about the abuse that triggered Simone's twisties
• The waffles and hair braiding logistics
• Why Kerri Strug did not appear in the movie
• How they will film and with what level of access at the Olympics in Paris
• When the next two episodes are coming out and more! 

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  • Baseball hats available now in the GymCastic store

Every Olympics there is a non-gymnastics rule that changes an outcome. Today we delve into the Competition Attire and Undisciplined Behavior rules that change final scores.

If you've ever wondered who is in charge of selecting Olympic judges and how the judges evaluation system was created? In part one of our interview, Dr. Hugues Mercier discusses the research and development of the F.I.G. Judge Evaluation Program (JEP).

We discuss: 00:01:55 - Simone Biles docuseries 00:02:21 - German docuseries Turnen - 60 Sekunden Perfektion premiers on ARD 00:02:33 - How to find an adult gymnastics class or camp 00:03:41 - Male vs. Female attire rules in artistic gymnastics 00:04:41 - All the extra words about women's aesthetic in the artistic Code of Points competition attire rules that aren't in the men's rules 00:07:16 - A elite gym nerd's guide to obscure gymnastics rules that have effected the outcome of a competition many times 00:07:57 - Deductions for undisciplined behavior in gymnastics 00:08:30 - How long can a gymnast stay down after a fall before the 30 second timer starts 00:12:20 - How to find Behavioral deductions on a score sheet 00:13:11 - Rules about men using music in floor routines 00:13:28 - Deduction for remounting the podium and the case of Xiao Ruoteng 00:18:42 - Rules about chalk marks on the floor 00:22:55 - Makeup rules 00:25:47 - Springboard rules 00:27:10 - Jewlery gymnastics rules 00:30:30 - Advertising and tattoo rules 00:32:07 - Tape and bandage color rules 00:35:33 - GymCastic Olympic coverage schedule 00:36:57 - PART ONE Dr. Hughes Mercier interview on development of the Judges Evaluation Program (JEP) Gymternet News: - Australian Olympic coach steps down day before team leaves for Paris - Ohio State Men's gymnastics team allegations of racism and harassment - Talladega HBCU cuts gymnastics program - FOUR YEAR HEADLINES: Where we issue yellow cards to drive-by gymnastics coverage - Paris Olympic live on location podcast schedule

Simone Biles' coach for 15 World and Olympic medals, including Olympic all-around gold, has a book coming out. Pre-order Aimee Boorman's book now.

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• • Daily live podcasts in Paris at the Olympic Games
    • GymCastic were the first and remain the only podcasters credentialed for the Olympic Games
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    • Baseball hats available now in the GymCastic store

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• Biggest Olympic Gymnastics Judging Scandals
• Behind The Scenes: Back from Trials
• Behind The Scenes: Leos Liberated 

Olympic Trials

• • Paris Olympic Trials Recap 
  • Women's Day Two: Olympic Team Named
  • Men's Final
  • Women's Day One
  • Women's Podium Training
  • Olympic Trials Stuff
    • Photo Galleries
      • Women's Final
      • Women's Podium Training
      • Women's Day 1
      • Men's Day 1
      • Olympic Trials Fantasy Game

U.S. Championships Recap

• Day Two U.S. Championships 2024
• Day One U.S. Championships 2024
• Podium Training U. S. Championships 2024
  • Day One Photo Gallery
  • Podium Training Photo Gallery 
  • Men's Day One Photo  Gallery

2024 U.S. Classic Recap Podcast with Denis Vachon

• U.S. Classic Post-Meet Immediate Reactions
• Behind The Scenes: Podium Training 2024 U.S. Classic

RESOURCES 

• Spencer's Clickable Code of Points
• Highest scoring team machine from Emily Giambalvo at the Washington Post
• What Scores Get You a Medal
• How to Build The Paris Olympic Team
• The Highest scores, D scores and World Cup rankings at The Gymternet
• Gymnastics History and Code of Points Archive from Uncle Tim
• Men's Gymnastics coverage from Kensley Neutral Deductions

 

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Gymnastics is well aware of its role in the wider Olympic ecosystem: to have judging drama. That's why we are here. We explain judging scandals offering simplifications that normies can understand; prompting them to go on and have very strong and newly informed opinions about. So… the biggest judging scandals in Olympic gymnastics history We discuss:

00:01:14 - Rebeca Andrade (BRA) video fo Triple Twisting Yurchenko

00:04:11 - Biggest judging scandals in Olympic gymnastics history, setting the stage for Paris

00:05:13 - The Case of the Ill-Given Gold: 2004 Yang Tae-Young lost gold because of judging error

00:13:23 - The Case of the Bogus Bronze: Drăgulescu give impossible score knocking Shewfelt to fourth

00:18:45 - The Case of the Sexy Stoppage: Alexei Nemov's score causes crowd to protest and judges to adjust his score

00:23:45 - Fallout from the multiple men's judging scandals at the 2004 Athens Olympics

00:26:03 - Can you still get a 10.0 score in Olympic gymnastics?

00:28:00 - How to spell the Chéng vault correctly

00:32:15 - The Case of the Accused Australian: When Nastia and He Kexin tied for bars gold

00:37:58 - The Case of the Diabolical Dismount: 2012 London Team Final, Kohei's botched dismount and waving money at the judges

00:44:56 - The Case of Bela's Bullshit: 1980 Olympic All Around disputed victor

00:51:36 - How non-controversies get started, revisiting 1980 Olympic news article

00:55:55 - The Case of the Convenient Communist: For years the wrong story was told about the 1968 Mexico City Olympic all-around Caslavska vs Petrik

01:03:34 - New Rules for Paris Olympics

01:17:08 - Gymternet News 01:18:51 - Elvira Saadi’s lifetime ban upheld

01:19:41 - Livvy Dunne is staying at LSU and we get to see more of her beautiful form

01:22:22 - Simone Biles Rio Olympic coach has a new book out

Simone Biles' coach for 15 World and Olympic medals, including Olympic all-around gold, has a book coming out. Pre-order Aimee Boorman's book now.

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• Marian Drăgulescu Interview
• Kyle Shewfelt 
• Kyle Shewfelt on his book, Make It Happen

Olympic Trials

• • Paris Olympic Team Trials Recap
  • Women's Day Two: Olympic Team Named
  • Men's Final
  • Women's Day One
  • Women's Podium Training
  • Olympic Trials Stuff
    • Photo Galleries
      • Women's Final
      • Women's Podium Training
      • Women's Day 1
      • Men's Day 1
    • Olympic Trials Gymnastics Fantasy Game

U.S. Championships Recap

• Day Two U.S. Championships 2024
• Day One U.S. Championships 2024
• Podium Training U. S. Championships 2024
  • Day One Photo Gallery
  • Podium Training Photo Gallery 
  • Men's Day One Photo  Gallery

2024 U.S. Classic Recap Podcast with Denis Vachon

• U.S. Classic Post-Meet Immediate Reactions
• Behind The Scenes: Podium Training 2024 U.S. Classic

RESOURCES 

• Spencer's Clickable Code of Points
• Highest scoring team machine from Emily Giambalvo at the Washington Post
• What Scores Get You a Medal
• How to Build The Paris Olympic Team
• The Highest scores, D scores and World Cup rankings at The Gymternet
• Gymnastics History and Code of Points Archive from Uncle Tim
• Men's Gymnastics coverage from Kensley Neutral Deductions

 

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Jessica is back from Olympic Trials in Minneapolis, Spencer watched and scored every routine from home. Hear directly from athletes and selection committee member, Alicia Sacramone, in this episode. We discuss:

• Why, for once, the rank all-around team is not controversial
• Adult gymnast facts and returning all-around Olympic Champions Simone Biles and Suni Lee
• The Women's Paris Olympic Team:
  • Simone Biles
  • Jade Carey
  • Jordan Chiles
  • Suni Lee
  • Hezly Rivera
  • Traveling alternates: Joscelyn Roberson and Leanne Wong
  • Non-traveling alternates: Tiana Sumanasekera and Kaliya Lincoln
• Injury armageddon taking out Shilese Jones, Skye Blakely and Kayla DiCello
• The lows and highs from failing to honor all injured athletes to NBC doing something really cool with science
• The Men's Paris Olympic Team:
  • Asher Hong
  • Stephen Nedoroscik
  • Frederick Richard
  • Brody Malone
  • Paul Juda
  • Traveling alternates: Shane Wiskus and Khoi Young
  • Non-traveling alternates: Patrick Hoopes, Yul Moldauer and Donnell Whittenburg
• Why Shane Wiskus went home early
• Simone Biles' coach for 15 World and Olympic medals, including Olympic all-around gold, has a book coming out. Pre-order Aimee Boorman's book now.

REPLAY TICKETS for OLYMPIC TRIALS LIVE SHOW ON SALE HERE  Join Club Gym Nerd (or give it as a gift!) for:

• • Weekly Q&A  Behind The Scenes podcast, dedications, mini-commissions , group commissions, exclusive extended interviews, and College & Cocktails episodes. Plus discounts and first dibs on Live Show tickets and merch.
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  • 2024 College & Cocktails menu (including mocktails, of course)
  • GymCastic Fantasy Games
  • GymCastic Store
    • clothing and gifts to let your gym nerd flag fly
    • "tapestries" (banners, the perfect to display your support in an arena)
    • Baseball hats available now in the GymCastic store

RELATED EPISODES

Olympic Trials

• • Women's Day Two: Olympic Team Named
  • Men's Final
  • Women's Day One
  • Women's Podium Training
  • Olympic Trials Stuff
    • Photo Galleries
      • Women's Podium Training
      • Women's Day 1
      • Men's Day 1
    • Olympic Trials Gymnastics Fantasy Game

U.S. Championships Recap

• Day Two U.S. Championships 2024
• Day One U.S. Championships 2024
• Podium Training U. S. Championships 2024
  • Day One Photo Gallery
  • Podium Training Photo Gallery 
  • Men's Day One Photo  Gallery

2024 U.S. Classic Recap Podcast with Denis Vachon

• U.S. Classic Post-Meet Immediate Reactions
• Behind The Scenes: Podium Training 2024 U.S. Classic

RESOURCES 

• Spencer's Clickable Code of Points
• Highest scoring team machine from Emily Giambalvo at the Washington Post
• What Scores Get You a Medal
• How to Build The Paris Olympic Team
• The Highest scores, D scores and World Cup rankings at The Gymternet
• Gymnastics History and Code of Points Archive from Uncle Tim
• Men's Gymnastics coverage from Kensley Neutral Deductions

 

MORE WAYS TO LISTEN HERE

 

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Jessica is back from Olympic Trials in Minneapolis, Spencer watched and scored every routine from home. Hear directly from athletes and selection committee member, Alicia Sacramone, in this episode. We discuss:

• Why, for once, the rank all-around team is not controversial
• Adult gymnast facts and returning all-around Olympic Champions Simone Biles and Suni Lee
• The Women's Paris Olympic Team:
  • Simone Biles
  • Jade Carey
  • Jordan Chiles
  • Suni Lee
  • Hezly Rivera
  • Traveling alternates: Joscelyn Roberson and Leanne Wong
  • Non-traveling alternates: Tiana Sumanasekera and Kaliya Lincoln
• Injury armageddon taking out Shilese Jones, Skye Blakely and Kayla DiCello
• The lows and highs from failing to honor all injured athletes to NBC doing something really cool with science
• The Men's Paris Olympic Team:
  • Asher Hong
  • Stephen Nedoroscik
  • Frederick Richard
  • Brody Malone
  • Paul Juda
  • Traveling alternates: Shane Wiskus and Khoi Young
  • Non-traveling alternates: Patrick Hoopes, Yul Moldauer and Donnell Whittenburg
• Why Shane Wiskus went home early
• Simone Biles' coach for 15 World and Olympic medals, including Olympic all-around gold, has a book coming out. Pre-order Aimee Boorman's book now.

REPLAY TICKETS for OLYMPIC TRIALS LIVE SHOW ON SALE HERE  Join Club Gym Nerd (or give it as a gift!) for:

• • Weekly Q&A  Behind The Scenes podcast, dedications, mini-commissions , group commissions, exclusive extended interviews, and College & Cocktails episodes. Plus discounts and first dibs on Live Show tickets and merch.
  • Exclusive VIP section on the message board Forum
• More goodies:
  • GymCastic newsletters 
  • 2024 College & Cocktails menu (including mocktails, of course)
  • GymCastic Fantasy Games
  • GymCastic Store
    • clothing and gifts to let your gym nerd flag fly
    • "tapestries" (banners, the perfect to display your support in an arena)
    • Baseball hats available now in the GymCastic store

RELATED EPISODES

Olympic Trials

• • Women's Day Two: Olympic Team Named
  • Men's Final
  • Women's Day One
  • Women's Podium Training
  • Olympic Trials Stuff
    • Photo Galleries
      • Women's Podium Training
      • Women's Day 1
      • Men's Day 1
    • Olympic Trials Gymnastics Fantasy Game

U.S. Championships Recap

• Day Two U.S. Championships 2024
• Day One U.S. Championships 2024
• Podium Training U. S. Championships 2024
  • Day One Photo Gallery
  • Podium Training Photo Gallery 
  • Men's Day One Photo  Gallery

2024 U.S. Classic Recap Podcast with Denis Vachon

• U.S. Classic Post-Meet Immediate Reactions
• Behind The Scenes: Podium Training 2024 U.S. Classic

RESOURCES 

• Spencer's Clickable Code of Points
• Highest scoring team machine from Emily Giambalvo at the Washington Post
• What Scores Get You a Medal
• How to Build The Paris Olympic Team
• The Highest scores, D scores and World Cup rankings at The Gymternet
• Gymnastics History and Code of Points Archive from Uncle Tim
• Men's Gymnastics coverage from Kensley Neutral Deductions

 

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