Olympic Team Draft: Every Gymnast At Their Quad Peak

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🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Update from the FIG about Fujitsu judging at Jakarta Worlds, Melnikova is back, NCAA updates, and a commissioned episode where we draft Olympic teams as if everyone in the entire quad was at their peak by Trials.

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Will Fujitsu robot judging be used at Jakarta Worlds? We have an answer
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COMMISSIONED EPISODE: Repicking the U.S. Olympic Teams

This week Alex AKA the "I love you Tasha guy" gave us the task to put on our National Team Coordinator hats and retroactively pick U.S. Olympic teams from Sydney to Paris using gymnasts who were at their quad-peak. Click here to see Alex's detailed spreadsheet outlining our contenders.

The Rules:

For each quad, pick the number of gymnasts based on the rules at that time (e.g. the Sydney format is 6-5-4, Athens is 6-3-3, London is 5-3-3, Tokyo is 4-3-3 + 2 individuals)
If you are too heartbroken to leave an athlete at home, you can name 2 travelling alternates. You can even name two non-travelling alternates if you must
With all of the best gymnasts from the quad competing at their quad-level peak with no injuries, burnout, and retirements, who do you pick?
Go through quad by quad and determine your Olympic team (plus alternates, if necessary) and select team final lineups. Remember, the ultimate goal is to WIN

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Remember, this show is PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two.
0:03.8	Today, we have a commissioned episode.
0:05.9	We draft Olympic teams as if everyone from that quad was at their absolute peak at Olympic trials.
0:15.3	It's March 10th, 2025, and welcome for the number one gymnastics podcast in the Galaxy.
0:19.9	I'm Jessica. I'm here with Spencer from the balance beam situation.
0:23.1	Before we get into this week,
0:24.7	we are pre-recording this episode because I will have just been at the MIT
0:29.2	Sloan Sports Analytics Conference where I was asked to put a panel together.
0:33.6	And so I'll tell you guys all about that on Cullin and Cocktails behind the scene at the end of the
0:38.8	week. But first, let me hop in and give you a quick update here. Live show, season passes are on
0:44.3	sale now. Go to Jimcasta.com. The first live show is going to be at NCAAs, and it's going to get
0:49.2	international interest. So get your season pass now. Guests will be announced soon. I reached out to the
0:57.3	FIG. This is a follow-out from last week about what President Watanabe said, and I asked the FIG,
1:03.3	will Fujitsu be using AI judging the Fujitsu system at Jakarta Worlds this year? And the FIGIGIG said no, quote, the Fujitsu JSS system is
1:14.9	already used on all 10 apparatuses at the 2023 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Antwerp to
1:22.5	allow a review of the D-Score in the event of an inquiry. At present, the FIG has no plans to use Fujitsu JSS
1:30.5	outside of its support function at this year's World Championships in Jakarta.
1:36.8	Remember, Fujitsu JSS, it stands for judges' support system,
1:41.1	so it's not required to be used, and this is separate from the FIG's judge's support system. So it's not required to be used. And this is separate from the FIG's
1:45.8	judge's evaluation program. That's JEP. And that's the one that chooses the most accurate
1:51.6	judges. And that's, that's different and separate. So that's, you can listen to our interviews with
1:57.0	Dr. Hughes Mercier who did the evaluation system to see how that works, and I'll put
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