Answer by Anton Petrunin for Surfaces all of whose geodesics are both closed...
From Guillemin's "The Radon transform on Zoll surfaces", it follows that there are deformations of $S^2$ which keep all geodesics closed AND simple.
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The Zoll surfaces have the property that all of their geodesics are closed.If one futher stipulates that all geodesics are also simple, i.e., non-self-intersecting,does this leave only the...
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