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GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

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

GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

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4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 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

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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

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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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