Live from US Classic in Chicago
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Live report from the 2025 U.S. Classic where Claire Pease is the new all around and vault champion. Myli Lew won UB with a big 14.05, Ashlee Sullivan won BB and Reese Esponda FX.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Gymcastic live after we just watched. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm here in Chicago and we just watched the U.S. |
| 0:08.1 | Classic senior finals. |
| 0:10.5 | We're going to tell you all about it. |
| 0:11.8 | Claire P's is the 2025 Classic Champion. |
| 0:15.1 | We have all the news from behind the scenes. |
| 0:16.9 | It's July 22nd, 2025. |
| 0:18.4 | And welcome to the number one of domestic podcast in the galaxy. It's July 19th, but that's fine. Don't worry about it. It's July 19nd, 2025, and welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast in the galaxy. |
| 0:21.9 | It's July 19th, but that's fine. |
| 0:23.5 | Don't worry about. It's July 19th, you guys. Am I the wrong? No, you're in the right outline. It's just you put the wrong date in here. That's fine. That's normal. I'm in the wrong outline again. No, you were in the right one. Was I the right one? Oh my God, you guys, let me change this. |
| 0:18.8 | Okay, so let me explain to you guys what happens here. |
| 0:22.3 | It's a great start. |
| 0:23.3 | I mean change this. Okay, so let me explain to you guys what happens here. It's a great start. I mean, this is pretty typical. This is, if you're brand new, welcome. That's about right. Okay. So what happened is, um, with this show, we do live and it's a special bonus for all of our club gym nerd members. |
| 0:56.4 | And then, and then if you, they get a whole podcast that goes on for like 45 minutes to an hour. |
| 1:02.1 | But if you're not a club gym member, then we're just going to give you a little taste of our |
| 1:07.2 | impressions of what happened tonight. |
| 1:10.1 | So, um, literal impressions. Literal impressions. So, let's start. Literally impressions. |
| 1:11.9 | Literal impressions. |
| 1:13.0 | So, Spencer, can you tell me just your overall impressions from- |
| 1:20.0 | Oh, my overall impression is classic, kind of classic, which is basically what this |
| 1:23.7 | meat was. |
| 1:24.3 | Like, at a certain point in the broadcast, like, halfway through John |
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