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    Event (FIG) Scoring Worlds Routines

    Jade Carey finished 8th AA at worlds and the Olympics. She may have started as a vault and floor specialist, but she's in a completely different league than Skinner and Roberson. Carey has really excellent basics. The other two, not so much.
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    2025 World Championships Articles, media

    And since The Athletic is pay walled, here's the text Amanda Yap is trying for Singapore’s first world gymnastics medal, in between school exams Rebecca Tauber Oct. 24, 2025 8:23 am EDT Amanda Yap walked across the balance beam like it was the floor. Her legs were straight; her splits hit...
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    2025 World Championships Articles, media

    Nice article on Amanda Yap in The Athletic https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6745283/2025/10/24/gymnastics-world-championships-olympics-amanda-yap/
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    2025 World Gymnastics Championships, Apparatus Finals Day 1, October 24

    So glad Donnell is now the best American finish on rings, not banned for life sex predator Paul O'Neill
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    2025 World Gymnastics Championships, Apparatus Finals Day 1, October 24

    I worked a conference all day. I'm off tomorrow, I'm sleeping as late a possible.
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    Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics' Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams

    If I remember the story correctly, Nadia was practicing a Radochla and ended up re-catching the low bar, and thus the idea for the Comaneci was born.
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    2025 World Gymnastics Championships: Women’s AA, October 23

    Checking in from the conference I'm running.... LEANNE FUCKING WONG!
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    Indonesia cancels Team Israel visas; IOC tells them "No talks until you promise…"; FIG does 0.

    No, I'm saying the US is a dysfunctional mess and blocking 12 countries from events tracks with the current state of things here. Not an excuse, a statement of fact. Nothing excuses it. It's bog standard xenophobia and racism from the current regime. Until the rest of the world actually does...
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    Indonesia cancels Team Israel visas; IOC tells them "No talks until you promise…"; FIG does 0.

    Well, the USA is pretty damn dysfunctional these days. Day 22 of the federal government being shut down and no end in sight.
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    2025 World Gymnastics Championships: Men’s AA, October 22

    That's an amazing resource! Never knew it existed. Australia's first men's worlds was 1970. It's the date underneath the country name and the best placings.
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    Team USA moving forward

    American Cup 2026 isn't a world cup event, afaik. It's a mixed team competition, similar to DTB Mixed or Swiss Cup.
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    Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics' Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams

    I don't think my previously declaration of the Seys being dysfunctional was accurate. Holy shit. And that's before I got to beating her with a belt rather than actually address a child's fears and anxiety. I know the 70s were very different, but Holy. Fucking. Shit. No eight year old should...
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    2025 World Gymnastics Championships: Men’s AA, October 22

    Is Jesse Moore's 11th place finish the bets for an Aussie MAG?
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