2025 U.S. Classic Recap: USAG Statement re UB error
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 22 July 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Claire Pease is our 2025 U.S. Classic Champion! What are our biggest takeaways from this meet, favorite moments and what USAG said about the judging error. If you missed our immediate recap live from Chicago on Saturday night, listen here.
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HEADLINES
- Claire Pease is our U.S. Classic all-around and vault champion!
- Myli Lew took the bars title, but first, a judging controversy
- In a GymCastic exclusive: USAG issued a statement to us about the bars error
- How can we fix these types of errors in the future?
- Ashlee Sullivan and her Arabian took the beam title
- Reese Esponda qualified herself to Championships ANNDDD took the floor title while she was at it
Classic
- Important updates heading into Championships
- Skye Blakely submitted a successful petition to compete at U.S. Championships
- Tiana is coming back from her Pan Ams ankle injury and is resting for Championships
- Members of the 2024 Olympic team and alternates are eligible to petition to U.S. Championships
- Who were our E-score champions of the meet?
Mind Changers at U.S. Classic
- What were our biggest takeaways?
- Should we be worried about the state of elite gymnastics in the United States after this meet?!!???
- Why Jessica thinks this group of elites is the "confidence generation"
- Why Nola Matthews and Pacific Reign are leading the artistry game
- Who else finally got the artistry memo here?
- What new skills are we seeing in response to the new code?
- The skill Ally Damelio does on bars that should automatically make her the winner of everything
- Reese Esponda's crazy new floor combination and Vivi Crain's scorpion turn
- Why Dulcy Caylor's new tumbling pass is giving us 1992 flashbacks
- Our way-too-early Worlds team predictions
- Opportunities for comedy during the meet
- Important art and leotard fashion updates
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Remember, this show is PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
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| 0:39.3 | on the giveaway post. Today, everything you need to know about the U.S. Classic and what it means |
| 0:44.6 | for the U.S. national team and world championship team. Plus, we have an exclusive comment for |
| 0:50.7 | USA Gymnastics on the judging error that should have changed the |
| 0:54.4 | bars winner at Classic. |
| 0:56.6 | It's July 22nd, 2025, and welcome to the number one to NASA podcast in the Galaxy. |
| 1:01.7 | I'm Jessica. |
| 1:02.3 | I'm here with Spencer from the balance beam situation. |
| 1:05.2 | And today's episode is brought to you by the quote of the meat from Joss Roberson, who said, |
| 1:09.8 | quote, you can't tell the judges what to do. |
| 1:13.5 | It's it was so out. |
| 1:14.4 | That won't stop us. |
| 1:15.5 | That's right. |
| 1:16.3 | We, that's what we're here for. |
| 1:18.5 | Yeah. |
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