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GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

Yellow Cards, New NCAA Rules and Mélanie DJDS Tells Jessica She's Not in Crisis

GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

LIVE SHOW: Featuring Cecile Landi and Levi Jung-Ruivivar is this Sunday, December 14th at 3 Pacific/6 Eastern. Get your tickets now to ask questions live!

The NCAA unveils major rule changes for 2026, and coaches are going to get so many more yellow cards. We break down the new NQS math, the Georgia Collective's NIL lawsuit, Romania's latest retaliation crisis,  Mélanie De Jesus Dos Santos clarifying exclusively to Jessica that she is not in financial distress, plus more info on the American Cup's new mixed-team format.

HEADLINES

  • Simone demonstrating why all of us should do gymnastics
  • Five Romanian gymnasts have submitted formal complaints against the Romanian Federation and the Federation is retaliating against their own coaches and athletes
    • What are the conditions the coaches and athletes are facing?
    • How can the FIG continue to allow such a federation to be certified?
  • Thanks to Uncle Tim and his PhD-level gymnastics history research, we know many past Romanian World and Olympic medalists, some with current leadership positions in the Romanian federation, competed with underage or with false birthdays
  • A Melanie de Jesus Dos Santos update. What happened post-Paris Olympics?
  • 2025 World All-Around Champion, Angelina Melnikova, is out of Bundesliga after her club  severed ties with her
  • The American Cup is back! This time as a mixed-team competition
    • When and where will the event be held?
    • How is the format different compared to the European Championships mixed-pairs event?
    • Who are our dream international teams?

GYMTERNET NEWS

  • NEW ELEMENT ALERT! The piked full-twisting Jaeger is now the Minamino
  • The Georgia Collective is suing athletes who transferred which could have big implications for the future
  • Max Whitlock has announced his return to gymnastics with the hopes of making it to the Los Angeles Olympics
  • Oksana Chusovitina is training for 2026 World Cups
  • Jayla Hang announced on Instagram she had surgery on her wrist
  • Giovanni Maria Fares, a lawyer formerly at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, is the new head of the Gymnastics Ethics Foundation
  • Lawsuits and Dumpster Fire News
    • Chows is being sued after an investigative piece by Eddie Pells of the AP
    • Former Rutgers coach Umme Salim-Beasley is suing the school for wrongful termination
    • The Trump administration is refusing to administer visas to athletes from Caribbean countries, preventing them from participating in LA28 qualifying events
  • NCAA photo shoot drama
    • Two top schools are using horses as their photo theme... (1) (2)
  • Kaylia Nemour has released a book, ''The Shadow of Gold''
  • The University of Minnesota Men's Gymnastics Club has a new facility
  • European Gymnastics will allow Russians to participate in competitions as neutral athletes, opening up Olympic qualification paths for artistic and rhythmic gymnasts 
  • Ashikawa Urara has retired after years of battling worsening scoliosis
  • Claire Pease commits to Utah!
  • Dulcy Caylor is deferring her NCAA start at Florida to focus on LA28

GYM NERD SCHOOL - College Gymnastics Rule Changes in 2026

  • What are updates to the National Qualifying Score?
    • What are the differences between the new and old versions?
    • Do we think the changes are positive?
    • Controversy radar activated: some teams will have to drop 2 high scores and some teams will have to drop 1
  • The Yellow Card Game - becasue these caoches are going to get yellow cards constantly

INTERVIEW

  • Gymnastics Medicine interview: pain myths & better injury care with Dr. Elspeth (Elly) Hart DScPAS and Dr. Ezara Greene DPT

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Cecilandi and Levi Young Revivar. Those are our featured guests at the Gymkastic Live show happening this

0:08.0

Sunday, December 14th. It's a virtual so you can attend from anywhere. But remember,

0:13.6

Jimcastic live shows are never made public because the chalk bowl is full of secrets. So we will see you with the Sia Landy, Olympian, and Olympic

0:23.8

champion coach, and Levi-Omarivar, Olympian for the Philippines, and Stanford Star at 3 p.m. Pacific

0:30.3

on Sunday, get your tickets at Jimcastic.com. Today, yellow cards for everyone, you guys. We have the new Nix Team American Cup format.

0:41.2

We're going to talk about that and our dream teams.

0:44.2

We have the gym nerd school college gymnastics rule changes 2026, so you know exactly how people are going to make it to or not make it to NTA championships and all the

0:56.5

ways that coaches can get yellow parts. Also, which of your favorite elites are coming to NCA

1:03.8

this season in 2026? We have two mini commissions, one on our dream college gymnastics team

1:10.0

from the last three years. And we have an Alabama, Georgia drama mini commissions, one on our dream college gymnastics team from the last three years, and we have an Alabama, Georgia drama mini commission as well. Today is December 8th, 2025, and welcome to Gymcastic, the number one gymnastics podcast in the galaxy. I'm Jessica Nehara Spencer from the balance team situation. Let us begin

1:28.5

with, please roll the clip. This is from Simone Biles on TikTok. Simone gave us the perfect

1:37.0

example of why everyone needs a start with gymnastics in their life.

1:42.0

Yeah. Because Simone is learning many new sports.

1:45.7

She's doing horseback riding.

1:46.9

She has now added the figure skating to her repertoire and is doing lessons.

1:51.2

And she fell down and was doing a very, like, sexy stomp and then tried to spin around and fell on her side.

1:59.7

But what did she not do?

2:01.2

Put her hands behind her. She did not break an elbow or a wrist because she knows how to fall.

2:07.8

And this is why everyone should start sports. Do whatever you want. But the first sport

2:11.9

you should start with is gymnastics. So you learn how to fall without hurting herself. That's

2:15.7

the most important thing. And also, I love that she's doing this because people feel like you can't do a sport unless you're good at it. And a lot of people feel like they can't go back to adult gymnastics unless they're like, well, I have to go in and then I have to explain how I used to be good. You don't have to explain shit. Enjoy yourself. It's your life. It doesn't matter if you're a beginner. You're a beginner and you're an adult. It's okay.

2:36.2

Spencer, do you want to go to adult gymnastics? No. But you've made a very good case for it.

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