2025 World Championships: Event Finals Day One: Women's VT, UB, Men's FX, PH, Rings

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🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Jessica reports LIVE from Jakarta while Spencer analysis every detail from GymCastic headquarters on the first day of event finals!

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Headlines

IOC stops Olympic talks with Indonesia over Israeli athlete ban
How to Report Exploitative Photography during a FIG meet
- Contact the FIG and LOC safeguarding officers on site. They are listed in the work plan, which is accessible on the event page (e.g. Jakarta: https://live.gymnastics.sport/event_detail.php?idevent=17810 They can also be reached by phone or WhatsApp.
- Anonymous reports can be filed directly to the Gymnastics Ethics Foundation
  - FIG Safeguarding page

Chapters

00:00 – Intro & Sponsors — Gymnastics Medicine, Club Gym Nerd
02:00 – Welcome from Jakarta: Jessica & Spencer on Day 1 of Event Finals
03:40 – Headlines: IOC vs. Indonesia, Fujitsu robots & FIG ethics
08:10 – Are the medals light or heavy?

08:35 – Women's Vault Final
09:00 – Melnikova, Fontaine & Josc medal recap
09:45 – Deng's vault crash & DNS rule explained
12:30 – Antwerp flashback & Voinea precedent
14:15 – Valen's "no-pike" Rudi & judging notes
15:40 – Kalmykova, Schönemaier & Fontaine highlights
20:05 – Melnikova's Cheng vs. form deductions
21:30 – Vault wrap-up

22:20 – Women's Uneven Bars Final
22:45 – Hit-a-thon! Skye Blakely sticks
24:20 – Melnikova & McDonald clean hits
26:10 – Yang's no-release issue
27:30 – Zoya's one-leg heroic routine
29:20 – Bars recap

30:00 – Men's Floor Final
30:25 – Jake Jarman's triple-double clinic
32:05 – Luke Whitlock & Yulo analysis
34:10 – Minami's honest fall
35:25 – Milad's Shushunova & artistry talk
37:05 – Floor medal recap

38:00 – Pommel Horse
38:20 – Highlights & scoring notes
41:00 – PH results

41:40 – Rings Final
42:00 – Whittenburg, World Champion at 31
43:20 – Adem celebration & medal reaction
46:00 – Nelson's style points

48:20 – Awards of the Day & BTS Teaser
48:40 – Best routines, surprises & Club Gym Nerd info
52:00 – Live Q&A & upcoming finals preview

54:35 – Show Close
55:00 – Tomorrow's coverage preview & sign-off from Jakarta

How Do I Watch the Competition?

All sessions of the competition will be streamed on Eurovision Sport. Follow along here!
Gymnastics Indonesia's YouTube channel will stream all qualification sessions
Live scores from the FIG and Swiss Timing
Check out NBC's behind-the-scenes mini-doc on the US Women's World Trials
US viewers check out Peacock and NBC broadcast schedlue here.

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Resources

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Guides: Download the quick-reference guide on the Jakarta Headquarters page
The Balance Beam Situation: Spencer's GIF Code of Points
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Kensley's men's gymnastics site Neutral Deductions

Transcript

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0:00.0	And the 2025 world champions are Jake Charmin on floor exercise, Anglina Melikova on vault.
0:10.9	No more on bars.
0:13.1	All is right with the world.
0:14.5	Hong on pommel Hintenberg on rings at age 30 freaking one.
0:22.8	Don Don is a world champion.
0:24.7	Everyone who's been waiting for this for 15 years, it finally happened.
0:30.4	It happened.
0:31.1	It happened.
0:32.0	It is October 24th, 2020, here in Jakarta, and both of them are known as to find out.
0:38.4	Or even 2025.
0:39.6	25. 25.
0:40.3	It's all the years.
0:41.7	World's has been so long that we went back in time.
0:44.7	Oh, God.
0:45.5	I'm flashing back like Lan Wong to 2021.
0:52.0	In, yeah, this is the number one massive podcast in the galaxy, and I am Jessica and I'm here
0:56.5	reporting live on location in Jakarta with our team of fact checker behind the camera and
1:01.1	Deanne Hong behind Deanna Hong behind the video camera.
1:05.8	And Spencer is in his layer underneath a air raid shelter where he buried his feelings and analyzes the data.
1:16.5	This show is PG-14, especially when we get to the behind-the-scenes part,
1:22.0	and our world's coverage is brought to you by gymnastics medicine. Learn more at their website, gymnasticsmedicine.org.
1:33.3	The show is also brought to you by club gym nerd members, and the way this works is,
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