You know the headlines. Emma Nedov's Olympic comeback, the medals, the media coverage. This is the part that never made it into any of that.

Emma Nedov joins Arman Liew for the first episode of The Gymnastics Files- how a random DM in Vegas turned into a podcast, what it actually costs a family to send a gymnast to a World Cup, and the two days before Paris 2024 when Emma pulled a skill from her beam routine without telling her own coach.

This is gymnastics without the highlight reel- funding nobody talks about, selection decisions made in secret, and what it really felt like behind the scenes of an Olympic team.

More information: https://thegymnasticsfiles.com/

0:00 Welcome and Meet the Hosts
2:10 Why Gymnastics Needs More Coverage
5:00 Sponsorship Reality and Athlete Fund Plan
13:30 Making Gymnastics Relatable Beyond the Arena
22:52 The True Cost of International Competition
34:02 Olympic Selection Pressure and Uncertainty
40:05 Last Minute Beam Changes in Paris
47:39 Team Results Drive Funding and Resilience
51:36 2014 Breakthrough, Then 2015 Burnout
57:20 Why We Split This Into Two

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