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Lessons Learned: The Paris Olympic Recap and Fix It list

2024-08-28

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...

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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