2025 World Championships: Event Finals Day Two: Women's BB, FX, Men's VT, HB, PBars

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🗓️ 25 October 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Jessica reports LIVE from Jakarta while Spencer analyzes every detail from GymCastic headquarters on the second day of event finals.

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Headlines

We have new World Champions!
- MAG VT: Carlos Yulo
- WAG BB: Zhang Qingying
- MAG PB: Zou Jingyuan
- WAG FX: Sugihara Aiko
- MAG HB: Brody Malone
We actually had a high-quality beam final?!!
- Zhang Qingying takes gold, just as Jessica predicted
- Amanda Yap becomes the first Singaporean gymnast ever to make an event final!
Did Carlos Yulo do the best vault men's gymnastics has ever seen?

Chapters

00:00 – We have World Champions! Carlos Yulo, Sugihara, Zhang, Zo, Brody Malone
00:40 – Day Two Recap: Beam, Floor, Vault, High Bar, Parallel Bars
01:42 – Rain, Bats, and PG-14 Warnings

03:10 – Women's Beam Final
03:42 – Zhang Is Beam World Champion
04:25 – Chinese Beam Precision Explained
06:45 – Nemour & the Artistry Revolution
09:12 – Leaps, Rhythm & Scoring Deep Dive
11:33 – Favorite Beam Moments

12:05 – Women's Floor Final
12:42 – Sugihara Wins Floor Gold
14:15 – Execution vs Difficulty
16:40 – Dance Deductions & Music Choices
18:27 – Crowd & Celebration Moments

19:10 – Men's Vault Final
19:52 – Carlos Yulo Vaults to Another Gold
22:14 – Power vs Form
24:38 – Surprise Podium Finishers

26:05 – Parallel Bars Final
26:48 – Zou Jingyuan Dominates P-Bars
28:17 – His Technique & Difficulty Explained
30:12 – Why It Still Shocked Everyone

31:10 – High Bar Final
31:44 – Brody Malone Repeats as World Champion
33:12 – Form, Amplitude, & Why He's Unbeatable
35:18 – American Men's Medal Recap

37:02 – Team Moments & Athlete Stories
39:20 – Behind the Scenes: Travel & Interviews
41:35 – Jessica's Notes from the Arena
43:10 – BTS Teaser – "So Listen to This…"

47:59 – Dinner Plans & Jakarta Stories
49:20 – Spencer's Restaurant Review
51:45 – VIP Banquet, Athlete Sightings & Card Games

01:16:22 – Wrapping Up Jakarta Coverage

How Do I Watch the Competition?

- - All sessions of the competition will be streamed on Eurovision Sport. Follow along here!
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  - 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
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Transcript

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0:00.0	We have world champions.
0:02.8	The 2025 world champions are Carlos Hugo.
0:10.3	It's been, it's the last day of worlds, you guys.
0:14.2	Carlos Hugo just also typed Burfodi Ma'own as the winner of Highbar.
0:19.3	It's going great.
0:22.1	All right, let's start over.
0:31.5	We have world champions, and they are on vault. Carlos Yulo is world champion again. On beam,
0:37.9	Zhang, the most beautiful beam worker ever. All the right things happen today.
0:44.4	On women's floor exercise, Shugihara, who is the performer on floor so well-deserved.
0:47.4	On P-Bars, it was a shocker to everyone.
0:54.9	Zoe, one, also known as the goat of P-Bars, which he said he had a lot more work to do before he considered the best of all time. And we were like, okay. And then Brody Malone repeated as high bar world champion.
1:04.4	Huge. So if you're counting at home, the men got two gold medals at this world
1:09.5	championships, which is not the most the men has ever gotten, but it's... In fact, there were seven gold medals awarded to men at these championships. U.S. men. U.S. Someone just said the men. The U.S. men. I meant the U.S. men. It is the last day of worlds. We barely made it here in time by the skin of our teeth tonight.
1:29.4	And once again, I had no internet. So I have all my written notes that I will be reading from, as you can tell.
1:35.8	It is October 25th here in Jakarta. Welcome to the number one domestic podcast in the galaxy.
1:42.2	I'm Jessica. I'm here with Spencer from the
1:44.1	balance beam situation. It was raining so hard that I didn't even see the bats on the way home. I was
1:49.5	like, forgot about that. Was your last bat night? I know and I didn't even get a video with the bats.
1:54.4	The little cute little fruit bats. This show is PG-14 because we have feelings about things.
2:00.2	Our world's coverage from Jakarta is brought to you by
2:02.2	Gymnastics Medicine. You can learn more about them at their website at gymnasticsmedicin.org. We got to do a
2:09.1	really great interview with them today about why they started, the purpose, what they offer, and it's like,
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