Rolled Ankle-Gate! Selection Camp Down to 8 | Perotti Leads Italian World Team
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GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Rolled Ankle-Gate rocks the U.S. Women’s World Championships Selection Camp as Hezly Rivera and Claire Pease withdraw. With the team now down to 8 gymnasts, who’s in the best position to make Jakarta World Championships team? Plus: huge surprises from Italian Nationals, Szombathely World Cup highlights, and the latest gymternet news.
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00:00:00 Intro – Selection camp + Italian Nationals hype
00:01:12 Rolled Ankle-Gate: Hezly Rivera & Claire Pease out 00:04:19 Selection Camp Preview – field down to 8
00:22:58 Spencer Team Prediction Calculator: why this helps Ashlee Sullivan
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00:28:34 Kerri Strug biopic tangent 00:30:16 Italian Nationals – we aren't ok
00:30:39 Esposito & Alice D’Amato not going to Worlds
00:38:58 Who Italy is sending: Perotti, Fioravanti, Barzasi, Asia D’Amato
00:49:20 Martina Maggio returns on bars
00:51:40 Sideline comedy: Giorgia Villa & Angela Andreoli
00:52:15 Szombathely World Cup highlights
00:59:47 Favorite Routine: Tisha Vollman’s Erceg mount
01:01:59 Gymternet News: Paralympic sanctions lifted for Russia/Belarus
01:03:28 Tragedy: Indonesian gymnast Al Bari
01:05:05 $350M foam pit lawsuit
01:10:26 Next show Oct 1st after U.S. Trials
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Remember, this show is PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
| 0:04.5 | Oh, holy shnikes, you guys. |
| 0:06.1 | We have a lot to tell you about this week. |
| 0:08.0 | The U.S. World Selection Camp is happening tomorrow, but it's down to eight competitors. |
| 0:15.0 | So we're going to answer all your questions about that. |
| 0:17.0 | Italian championships, Asoluti, were amazing, you guys, amazing. |
| 0:22.0 | We have exciting upgrades coming from all over the place. |
| 0:25.8 | And of course, the injury at Gettin, that's what we're calling it, which always happens before |
| 0:29.6 | our world is happening. |
| 0:31.0 | Today is September 29th, 2025. |
| 0:33.3 | And welcome to the number one to NASA's podcast in the Galaxy. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm just going to hear with Spencer from the balance beam situation. |
| 0:39.0 | And we have a lot of news to go over. |
| 0:43.2 | But first we want to start with what's happening and what is affecting the U.S. |
| 0:47.9 | Women's Team Camp, which starts tomorrow. |
| 0:50.1 | And also I would just like to mention that Melnikova now has a chung that she just showed. |
| 0:55.3 | I thought we were talking about the U.S. selection camp. |
| 0:57.7 | I know. |
| 0:58.3 | Throw a Melnikovychung at me. |
| 1:00.2 | This is important for the upcoming. |
| 1:04.5 | It's the world's ramp up period. |
| 1:07.2 | You got to be able to transition. |
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