2025 World Gymnastics Championships Apparatus Finals Day 2, October 25

[wishfulgoddess]

I think Amanda Yap wins the "Gained the most fans" award here. I hope she updates us on how her exams go, I'm invested now.

Her beam routine is lovely and she is one of those people who just lights up the room and makes everybody smile. I'm very much on her new fan list.

 

[RichardL]

The judges were ready to give Caylor bronze on floor with a hit routine. She basically had the score in the AA finals (top three on floor in the AA) with the low landing on the double layout.

 

[Puffin]

Yeah, that was more a testament to Soviet depth than anything else. Baitova was excellent in every way. Voinea is just her own worst enemy.

I agree 100% with @QuietColours . I don't wish Voinea any harm. I just want literally anyone else to beat her. I've also taken a much dimmer view of her mother's career. Mama Voinea was never my favorite Romanian, and now I like her even less. So she could breakdance, big deal. That FX hasn't aged well, and she was pretty meh on the other three events.

Funny that Mama Voinea was usually 4th on the Romanian team - behind Szabo, Silivas and Dobre

It is sad how mismanaged Sabrina's career has been and both her mother and the RGF complicit in allowing her to chuck huge skills as a pre-teen ... I think she was throwing double layouts and a Silivas on fx when she was 11 or 12. Yet the focus on "chuck big skills" neglected the other parts of her gymnastics that are coming back to bite her now. Camelia is just out of her depth coaching at this level and a very poor ub coach. They could have brought in a ub coach - years ago - and Sabrina could have been developed as an AA contender but of course mama knew best and now they have given up on UB altogether leaving her as a 3 event gymnast.

 

[IratePanda]

Just continuing the Amanda Yap love here:



I normally despise Gymcastic, but this is so adorable that I'll make an exception.

She says she's not interested in NCAA, but I wonder if she'll change her mind.

 

[eanda]

I know Yap was a long shot in a mostly hit finals, but I would have loved seeing her with a medal. I just really enjoyed watching how she worked beam.

 

[JaJa]

I hardly consider AA finals and two EFs a bummer for someone who was widely considered to have zero chance of even making the team as late a the afternoon of September 30.

You're right. I was just hoping for a podium. But, you are indeed right.

 

[Aeris]

I mean it kind of breaks my heart for Sabrina a little... it's just a bit much, I guess.

She deserved Bronze this time. However much someone wants to harp on her deficiencies, Abi Martin's dancing is embarrassing.

Someone needs to get Sabrina to do a Moerz instead of that unwise triple turn. She threw a couple tenths away there. I'm not sure about the consistency of Abi Martin's wolf turn, but I think she wobbled on it every time here at worlds, so she too is probably someone who should be jumping on the Moerz train.

 

[Denn]

OMG, Amanda Yap is absolutely charming in that interview. Talk about genuine excitement. I have not enjoyed WAG at this Worlds, partly because of the depleted field and partly because of the disrespectful scoring rules, but this helps make it much better for me.

 

[Aeris]

Amanda Yap saying she's not interested in NCAA makes her even more loveable!

 

[Rich]

Why dont the women get a stick bonus. Seems kind of unfair

 

[Hatsumomo]

Just continuing the Amanda Yap love here:



I normally despise Gymcastic, but this is so adorable that I'll make an exception.

She says she's not interested in NCAA, but I wonder if she'll change her mind.

This was adorable. A lot of the charm comes from the fact that she's not used to being interviewed like this, so there's no practiced answer. It's very much a 15-year-old girl who just achieved something beyond what she expected and getting to meet people in her field she's looked up to at the same time.

 

[MaryClare]

Lol. People in Singapore are rich and don’t rate US colleges other than the ivies. I am not surprised that she isn’t interested

 

[RichardL]

Lol. People in Singapore are rich and don’t rate US colleges other than the ivies. I am not surprised that she isn’t interested

Yeah, I'm sure her parents would rather die than send her to spend four years in someplace like Alabama or Arkansas or Florida lol

 

[Denn]

Yeah, I'm sure her parents would rather die than send her to spend four years in someplace like Alabama or Arkansas or Florida lol

Come on... What about Stamford? Cal?

 

[Hatsumomo]

If Stanford or UCLA came knocking, they would probably at least get consideration.