LIVE Post-Meet Debrief: U.S. Women's World Team Trials Report

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🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Let's talk about the highest scoring team and clear up Skye's UB score controversy live after day two. TEAM IS: Skye Blakely, Joscelyn Roberson and Leanne Wong. Jayla Hang and Ashlee Sullivan non-traveling replacement athletes.

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⏱️ Timestamp Chapters

00:00 – Show Intro & Day 2 We have a team

04:20 – Naming Your Team & Lineups

07:35 – Highest Scoring Team After Day One

10:15 – Updated Team with Day Two Scores

13:00 – Headlines: Dulcy's AA spot, Skye's UB score review from USAG, Falls & Highlights

15:00 – Updates: Podcast schedule, Raffle, GymCastic Scholarship

40:25 – Feedback: Floor skills values & proposed changes and the Dutch-East India company's legacy in Jakarta

55:10 – Show Close & What's Next (Selection Camp wrap, Worlds preview)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	And the world team is.
0:02.6	We've recorded this, but now they just announced it as soon as we finish.
0:05.5	So you will now hear us predict the future.
0:07.7	The team is, Sky Blakely, Dulcie Kaler, who won the all-round spot, Jocelyn Robertson, and
0:12.5	Leanne Wong.
0:14.2	We just watched.
0:16.3	Day two of the U.S. women's World Team selection camp.
0:20.4	It just concluded, Dulcy got the automatic
0:23.4	all-round spot on day one. Huge congratulations to her. Selection camp was down to eight competitors
0:29.6	for three team spots left today after Dulce got in and two alternates. It is October 1st,
0:35.7	2025, the month of the Jakarta World Championships,
0:39.9	home of the corpse Lily. And welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast in the galaxy.
0:44.3	We are doing a special behind the scenes like we do after every major meet, and we will be doing
0:50.0	after all the metal rounds in Jakarta and from podium training. And I am here with Spencer from the balance beam situation, who has resumed his excellent and hilarious live blog on the balance room situation, complete with gifts. So the only ones left standing to recap were Sky Blakely, Dulcie, Jela, Gabrielle, Hardy, Joss Robertson, Simone Rose, Aschus Sullivan, Leanne Wong.
1:18.7	Did I say Jaila?
1:19.6	Yeah.
1:20.3	After we had the two dropouts from the wogas with ankle injuries and soreness.
1:27.9	Reminder that the gymnast, I checked with USA Gymnastics,
1:32.2	they do have Tyshawn equipment, which will be the world's equipment,
1:34.9	at the Flip Fest, which is where camp was held.
1:38.2	They did not have to, I followed up,
1:40.9	they did not have to use the Tyshaon equipment, which on the one hand, very,
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