2025 World Championships Women's Qualifying Day Two: United States, Italy, Russia, China
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Jessica reports LIVE from Jakarta on all the details from day two of women's qualifying.
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Chapters
00:00 – Intro: Flavia hits beam & Melnikova dominates qualifying01:10 – Headlines: Big names miss finals (Zhou, Wong, Perotti)
06:20 – Stars of the Day: Voinea, Zhang, McDonald, Caylor
09:40 – USA Recap: Barely through, but through
15:45 – All-Around Standings & Event Finalists
27:55 – Lessons from the Score Rankings
29:08 – Spencer's Jakarta Updates & Team USA Deep Dive
40:16 – Best & Worst Moments: Injuries, artistry, and leotards
49:55 – BTS: Flavia vs. the giant bug + rule-breaking highlights
54:12 – Deep Dive: Subs 4–10 and medal contenders
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- All sessions of the competition will be streamed on Eurovision Sport. Follow along here!
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- Live scores from the FIG and Swiss Timing
- Check out NBC's behind-the-scenes mini-doc on the US Women's World Trials
Headlines
- Women's qualifications are complete! Angelina Melnikova is leading the women's all-around and vault standings, Kaylia Nemour is leading bars, Zhang Qingying leads beam, and Sabrina Voinea is the top scorer on floor
- What were moments that made us want to call the gymnastics police?
- Who were our all-star queens of the day?
- What did Chellsie Memmel have to say after the USA's qualification performance?
- Takeaways from pre-Worlds international score rankings
- The tale of Flavia Saraiva vs the giant bug
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We just watched the final day of women's qualification. |
| 0:04.9 | I have been in the arena for over 12 hours, and Spencer has been watching from home, hoping his eyes won't bleed. |
| 0:13.4 | Flavia hit beam, everyone. |
| 0:17.6 | Light all the candles and keep them lit until the beam final. |
| 0:21.6 | Those are your instructions. |
| 0:23.1 | Melnikova is leading the all-around qualification so, so, so easily. |
| 0:27.6 | But it's all fun in games until Russia goes to, say it together, beam. |
| 0:33.9 | Yes. |
| 0:34.6 | So we're going to talk about USA, Russia, independent athletes who live in Russia, China, the British, France, and Mexico. It is October 21st here in Jakarta. And welcome to the Northern International Podcast in the Galaxy. I'm Jessica and I'm Spencer from the balance beam situation. And I, this show is PG-13. And then after behind the scenes, it's 14. And our- |
| 0:57.4 | And then if we start talking about qualification, it's our. If you watch, you know. |
| 1:04.1 | Our world's coverage from Jakarta is brought to you by Gymnastics Medicine. Learn more on their |
| 1:09.8 | website, Gymnasticsmedicin.org. And we did have a reason |
| 1:14.3 | to see the Jakarta medical team in action tonight, unfortunately. This show is also brought to you |
| 1:19.8 | by Club Jim Nerd. They are the ones that pay for this trip. They get a whole extra Q&A podcast live |
| 1:25.1 | every single week. And then they get another third podcast during college gymnastics season. |
| 1:31.9 | And so there's an extra part of the show for them. |
| 1:35.1 | So if you're a club gym nerd members, switch over to your members-only feed now, |
| 1:39.3 | instructions on the show notes. |
| 1:40.7 | Let us begin with the head. |
| 1:43.3 | Spence. |
| 1:44.8 | Topic number one, if you had told me yesterday, I would have called the police. |
| 1:50.3 | That's where we're going to start. |
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