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Laurie Hernandez Would Give Everyone a Bronze Medal: ‘ I can’t imagine how Jordan Chiles is feeling. We know she’s heartbroken. All of this is on a global scale, and it’s a really messy situation’

The Gen-Z analyst on her Olympics gig, coining ghost deductions, and how the Jordan Chiles controversy “doesn’t make sense.”

If we could draw your attention away from Raygun for a moment — it’s hard, we know — a rainbow that beamed down into the 2024 Summer Olympics in human form was former gymnast Laurie Hernandez, whose work as an analyst and commentator for NBC elevated the events with a decisively Gen-Z spirit. You joked that you were thrilled to be trusted with the job as a “chronically online Olympian turned drama major.” You’re the first major instance of a Gen-Z analyst at this level of competition. Not blindly positive with golden retriever energy — I want to keep things as subjective and factual as possible — but that can make any commentary sound harsh and critical with the gymnasts.

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