Jakarta Worlds Debrief: The Romanian Drama Explained With Coaches Daymon Jones & Patrick Kiens
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🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
Former Romanian head coaches Daymon Jones and Patrick Kiens join us to unpack the turmoil inside Romanian gymnastics — from new accusations to decades-old coaching culture and leadership struggles. Plus: what we learned from the 2025 Jakarta World Championships and our wish list for future World Championships. And a happy message from Rings World Champion, Donnell Whittenburg. Find Resistance Resources here.
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00:00:00 – Intro Cold Open: Romania abuse reports surface
00:03:36 – Headlines: Romania context (Golgota, Voinea, leadership turmoil)
00:10:02 – Interview: The Romanian Situation with Daymon & Patrick 00:10:34 – Abuse allegations and what coaches witnessed firsthand 00:20:15 – Old-school culture, leadership failure, and bad press
00:31:13 – Federation power dynamics, elections, and fallout
00:41:28 – Updates & programming notes
00:45:17 – Jakarta Worlds Debrief: Overall medal table (WAG/MAG highlights)
00:49:16 – China's event-specialist strategy (7 routines, 3 medals) 00:51:54 – Judging parity: Melnikova's AA score & floor 14 club
00:55:51 – Selection & pipeline fixes (camp vs real meets)
01:06:44 – Who needs a reset? USA, Italy & Brazil post-Olympics
01:24:11 – FIG talk: host selection, logistics & equipment issues
01:32:02 – Gymternet News: Canada CEO, Arthur Gander results, Liverpool 2030 bid
01:36:56 – Listener feedback & notes
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| 0:00.0 | The father complained about bullying of Sabrina and her mother. |
| 0:05.0 | That was ignored and that was already going on on the 6th of August. |
| 0:10.0 | That is the day that she filed to complain. |
| 0:12.0 | So the other thing, the OMV money, Corina asked, why is Denizier not funded? |
| 0:18.0 | And they said she's too old. |
| 0:20.0 | But she was an European finalist so why why would that make a |
| 0:24.3 | difference so it was like a nonsense reason but bad leadership not reacting to a complaint which was a |
| 0:33.3 | serious complaint but it was already when we there, there were a lot of rumors about |
| 0:40.3 | Camilla in her past, being abusive, hitting children, even that she would lock up Sabrina in |
| 0:47.9 | Constanta. Remember, the show is PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two. We are back from World Championships in Jakarta. |
| 0:56.5 | And today we are going to debrief on everything that happened at Worlds. |
| 1:00.4 | Go over it. |
| 1:01.1 | What do we learn? |
| 1:02.3 | What do people need to work on? |
| 1:03.9 | Maybe some suggestions, as we like to do. |
| 1:06.6 | Also, today, there has been a bunch of Romanian abuse accusations since World Championships ended. |
| 1:14.0 | And today, we're going to give you the lowdown on what happened. |
| 1:16.6 | And we're also going to talk to David and Patrick, the current WCC coaches, Dulcy Kaler's coaches, |
| 1:22.0 | and former Romanian head coaches about what happened and their perspective on this, |
| 1:26.5 | since they lived a lot of the political |
| 1:28.9 | situations that affect gymnastics in Romania. So we're going to talk to them about this. |
| 1:34.1 | Today is November 10th, 2025, and welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast in the Galaxy. |
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