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  "id": "spartus-olympus",
  "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/paddles/spartus-olympus",
  "brand": "Spartus",
  "model": "Olympus",
  "year": 2024,
  "launch": {
    "date": "2024-09-15",
    "precision": "month",
    "label": "September (expected first week)"
  },
  "lifecycle": "current",
  "listPriceUsd": 199.99,
  "listPriceLabel": "",
  "build": "hybrid",
  "buildLabel": "Honeycomb + foam (Gen 3)",
  "thickness": "14mm",
  "shapes": "Hybrid",
  "pro": null,
  "summary": "Pickleball Studio called it their favorite 14mm paddle of 2024 for pairing real pop with control, and Pickleball Effect later gave it a power-paddle award. The foam-filled-honeycomb idea was a middle path between thermoformed Gen 3 and the full-foam cores that arrived in 2025. The only knock reviewers raised was the short warranty.",
  "construction": "14mm 'Ascension Core': a polymer honeycomb whose cells are foam-filled, pitched as delivering foam-core power without expansion or break-in drift; raw carbon fiber plus fiberglass face.",
  "core": {
    "layers": [
      "14mm polymer honeycomb with foam-filled cells (Ascension Core)",
      "raw carbon fiber + fiberglass face"
    ],
    "face": "Raw carbon fiber + fiberglass",
    "edge": "",
    "source": "https://pickleballstudio.com/reviews/spartus-olympus-review"
  },
  "variants": [
    {
      "name": "Olympus 14mm",
      "shape": "hybrid",
      "lengthIn": 16.35,
      "widthIn": 7.65,
      "handleIn": null,
      "thicknessMm": 14,
      "weightOz": "",
      "sw": 113,
      "tw": 6.24,
      "specSource": "https://pickleballstudio.com/reviews/spartus-olympus-review"
    }
  ],
  "status": {
    "usap": "unknown",
    "usapSource": null,
    "upaa": "unknown",
    "upaaSource": null,
    "quiet": false,
    "patent": "none-known",
    "investigation": null,
    "lifecycle": "current"
  },
  "certNote": "",
  "timeline": [
    {
      "date": "2024-09-15",
      "precision": "month",
      "kind": "launch",
      "text": "Pickleball Studio newsletter (Aug 16 2024): Olympus 'expected first week of September'; Studio review published Sep 18 2024.",
      "source": "https://pickleballstudio.beehiiv.com/p/joola-mod-ta15-new-gen-15-paddles"
    }
  ],
  "labs": [
    {
      "lab": "Pickleball Studio",
      "kind": "review",
      "url": "https://pickleballstudio.com/reviews/spartus-olympus-review"
    },
    {
      "lab": "Pickleball Effect",
      "kind": "review",
      "url": "https://pickleballeffect.com/hot-list/spartus-olympus-best-power-paddle-award/"
    }
  ],
  "colorways": [],
  "madeIn": null,
  "warranty": null,
  "notes": "Studio review reports two swingweight figures (109–112 on court, 113 in table); table values used.",
  "productUrl": "https://gospartus.com/products/olympus",
  "sources": [
    "https://pickleballstudio.com/reviews/spartus-olympus-review",
    "https://pickleballstudio.beehiiv.com/p/joola-mod-ta15-new-gen-15-paddles",
    "https://gospartus.com/products/olympus",
    "https://pickleballeffect.com/hot-list/spartus-olympus-best-power-paddle-award/",
    "https://www.picklemadness.com/blogs/the-pickleball-pundit/spartus-olympus-pickleball-paddle-review"
  ],
  "confidence": "medium",
  "image": "https://pointcast.xyz/images/og/paddles/spartus-olympus.png"
}