Experts sit in a room and discuss. Come up with a preliminary value. The full Men’s Tech Committee need to ratify the recommendation. Then it’s officially posted in an MTC newsletter.
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In this case they were submitted for Leyva and Dalton at Doha.
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MAG has historically done a good job. WAG has been wildly inconsistent and hilariously wrong over the decades. The current Code still has two different spellings for the name of this legend:
Schuschunova (Bars)
Schuschunova (Floor)
Shushunova (Beam)
It’s Shushunova in wikipedia. Shushunova in the IG Hall of Fame.
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