Behind The Scenes: Chinese World Team

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🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Let's discuss the Chinese World Team!

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00:00 Intro – Behind the Scenes preview

00:42 China’s World Team confirmed

01:15 Why this is a “specialist team” for specialist Worlds

01:45 Zhou Yaqin – back-to-back beam silvers

02:00 Yang Fanyuwei – Layout Jaeger full

02:20 Zhang Qingying – National AA champ

02:36 Deng Yalan – 26 years old

03:26 Team strategy – medal chances with event specialists

03:49 Snub: Zhang Yihan – 2024 Olympian & bars finalist left off

04:13 Why this team is the right call for Worlds

06:07 Timing of China’s team selection – too early or just right?

07:22 Training, peak performance, and recovery before Worlds

07:48 Jessica’s Jakarta prep – health gear & travel hacks

10:04 Cultural etiquette research for Jakarta

11:04 Jordan Chiles on Dancing with the Stars

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0:00.0	Want to know what goes on on our extra podcast every week? Here's a little taste for you.
0:06.7	Welcome to Behind the scenes. This is the show that we do every Friday normally in
0:10.7	Pacific, but this week we are doing it on Wednesday because I am going to San Francisco.
0:16.9	I'm so excited. I love San Francisco so much and I get to see my sister and my niece, and I'm so, so happy.
0:23.1	So, enough about me.
0:24.7	This is our Q&A show.
0:26.9	Enough about you.
0:28.6	Enough about me, I know.
0:29.7	Isn't it like Jessica story is kind of the point of this?
0:32.8	That is my favorite part.
0:36.6	And, but today, our show is brought to you by,
0:39.8	we have a Chinese world team.
0:43.2	Yes, I at least saw the tweets that this, we have a team.
0:47.3	We're 99% sure we have a Chinese world team.
0:51.7	Let's start with that.
0:53.6	And the show's PG-14, because I might have feelings about a full twisting Yeager being
0:57.9	at Orald, and we might have to decide on a cheer to all scream about it.
1:02.4	Okay, good, good, good.
1:04.0	So basic reflections on the Chinese World's team, the women's team, I feel like China understood the assignment.
1:11.0	You will appreciate this team as I presented to you, Jessica. It's a Jessica team for a
1:16.7	Jessica World. It's a specialist team for a specialist world. It's a team that you wouldn't
1:22.0	have picked in a team year because two of the four team members only have one event,
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