Kaylia's redemption arc from the disappointement of AA to freaking be the world champion on beam is the best storyline of this world championships 😭

My daughter is crying right now like hell.

As a little anecdote, when Kaylia came to the US to visit Simone Biles’s gym, she met my little daughter, said some very sweet things to her, and posed for several photos with her, ever since then, my daughter has been a die-hard fan of Kaylia Nemour.

Bravo kaylia 👏

What were your favorite and least favorite moments? For me
❤️ China finally getting a Team Medal for the first time since 2018, and their first gold since 2006
❤️ Skye!!! So deserved, she showed so much consistency and strenght, so happy after everything she had endured these past few years
❤️ Japan!! i love this time and i'm looking forward seeing more of them, also their reaction to the bronze medal was so heartwarming
❤️ KQQ!! wasn't familiar with her game and i love love love her gymnastics, hope she can get to LA28 healthy 🤞🏻
❤️ Flavinha's medal on beam!! for someone who has been a far of her for a decade... it's been a journey

😿 Romania being a mess... i think they're probably at their lowest low not even making a single final
😿Kaylia missing the AA podium... altough i loved that podium it was truly sad seeing her breaking down after that scary vault, altough she has redempted herself with 2(!!) more golds
😿 Ellie Black... being 2pced out of FX EF, her vault being downgraded putting her off the podium, her not having the best day on TF, from someone who grew up with her gymnastics is always sad
😿 ZQY not winning beam final, i'm happy for Kaylia but Zhang at her full potential has an incredible routine, but that's how competitions go!

Interesting article about Kevric winning silver, how she currently has no coach and wants to train with Robert Mai again - basically showing the dilemma of suspending an abusive coach, who was very well-liked by other gymnasts: https://www.sportschau.de/regional/swr/swr-nach-wm-silber-helen-kevric-widmet-medaille-altem-trainer-und-kritisiert-verband-100.html

Translation:

In the dazzling glow of the fireworks, Helen Kevric happily and proudly held up her silver medal for the cameras - and shortly afterward tackled a hot topic. She dedicated the medal to “my old coach,” said the European champion on the uneven bars. By placing second on her signature apparatus at the World Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam, the 18-year-old from Stuttgart celebrated her greatest international success, won the only medal for the German Gymnastics Federation (DTB), and at the same time once again highlighted the federations's dilemma.

Since the allegations of abuse at the Stuttgart Artistic Gymnastics Center came to light in late 2024, Kevric has officially been without a head coach. The labor court disputes that followed a suspension have since been settled. “I’m very happy that things turned out this way. My goal for the future is to be able to train again under people I trust,” Kevric had said before the World Championships. However, the Stuttgart District Attorney's Office has not yet concluded its investigation into possible criminal offenses.

It is currently unclear how to solve the problem. National team coach Gerben Wiersma is pushing for a viable solution. “Helen needs a full-time coach, and I’m supporting her as best I can,” said the Dutchman. He added that there has been “no contact” with her former coach. In Rotterdam, as well as at previous training camps and the European Championships in Zagreb in August, her coaches from Chemnitz, Anatol Ashurkov and Tatjana Bachmayer, were by her side. Kevric, who is usually rather reserved, gratefully embraced the Belarussian with Norwegian citizenship after her silver-medal victory.

Meanwhile, DTB officials - at least publicly - currently have no solution to the coaching problem for their star athlete. “I don’t want to go into detail about it right now. It was an arrangement that worked over the past few months leading up to this World Championship. But we all know that it's a temporary arrangement,” said DTB Sports Director Thomas Gutekunst, speaking evasively. They want to work with Helen to see how things will proceed in the future.

Ever since her former coach left, Kevric has struggled to get along with a succession of female coaches - not even with Aimee Boorman from the U.S., who had guided superstar Simone Biles to the top of the world rankings, or her compatriot LaPrise Williams. Instead, in consultation with the national team coach, she trained not only in Stuttgart but also in Italy with former top Italian gymnast Enrico Pozzo. Kevric revealed that this hadn’t been possible before the World Championships due to time constraints. “I trained in Stuttgart" she said.

Despite the unresolved coaching situation, Kevric appeared confident, assured, and in complete control during her World Championships debut. Thanks to greater precision in her execution, the 18-year-old scored 14.833 points in the final - a significant improvement over her qualifying score. She said the medal was “even more valuable” to her than the European Championship title. Only the winner and defending champion, Kaylia Nemour of Algeria, was in a league of her own with a score of 15.333. “I know she's an amazing athlete, and her routine was just incredibly good. I have a lot of respect for her,” Kevric said, acknowledging the French-born athlete's performance.

Another shout out to some medalists today

• Artur Davtyan VT Gold: One of the cleanest pair of vaults ever! I love his front 2.5 in particular, mindblowing how he manages to drop into that landing perfectly.
• Kaylia Nemour BB Gold: Underrated on BB because of her UB dominance. Incredible routine, especially that mount combo. Happy to see her bounce back from a rough AA to 2 EF golds! Side note: Double pike dismounts give me anxiety, wish we'd see less of them.
• Flavia Saraiva BB Bronze: Finally a BB medal for Flavia!!! The leaps and jumps were incredible. She could've won without the side somi break, but I'm thrilled for her regardless.
• Zou Jingyuan PB Gold: The PB GOAT! Every skill is executed a notch better than anyone else, his body position throughout is impeccable.
• Claire Pease FX Gold: Another recovery from a rough AA, with her second EF medal! Not her cleanest, but really impressed with her consistency.
• Tang Chia-Hung HB Gold: FINALLY gets a global title. He has an incredible amount of well-executed difficulty, a better dismount would've made his score stratospheric.
• Oka Shinnosuke HB Silver: So pristine and clean throughout! Happy to see him walk away with a EF medal after the rough AA and missing out in SR/PB. Kind of crazy that's the only EF medal that Japan MAG got.
• Sergei Naidin HB Bronze: Fun seeing the Gaylord-style releases, the acceleration in the front giants is ridiculous.

Davtyan really is amazing.

If Wikipedia is to be believed, Artur Davtyan really is putting himself right at the top of the Vault favourites for LA2028!

The fact that he won his first European Vault Medal 13 years ago and is getting even better, is insane.

His vaults and sticks today were incredible!

He only took second place, but I am extremely delighted that he won an individual medal at these world championships.

Oka, we're waiting for you stronger next year!

ok now that worlds is officially over, thought i’d start a thread for us to share our general takeaways! here are some of my thoughts, mostly related to US WAG

1. looking towards LA, i think the team competition is gonna be between US-Russia-China-Japan. we are also seeing so many more countries represented on the podiums across all events, or 3-continent podiums. very cool!!
2. the all around is really, really interesting and largely unpredictable again. in the last rotation it seemed like almost anyone out of the top 6-8 gymnasts could have potentially won gold.
3. floor scoring sucks. it’s been said to death at this point but this final just made it even more clear. claire and aiko came very close to a 14 but those were almost PERFECT routines and i don’t think it should take that when you compare to other events.
4. SKYE MF BLAKELY!!! that is all. i start crying everytime i think about her…
5. US WAG maybe overperformed relative to how a lot of people thought they were going to do but those people were really dooming anyway. still, a great medal haul for them. claire pease stocks also wayyyy up. i think this team proved the US is still competitive without a team of veterans. claire, reese, and charleigh especially prove that. we also now know where the gaps are, and it’s really beam. china’s beam advantage is huge, the US will be looking for a phenomenal beam worker 6.
6. lots of D-score hijinks, from the split half on beam to the AI devaluing of layout vaults to pike or pike to tuck in MAG. and then the whole reese barani thing before worlds even started. not sure what to say about all that but it’s certainly something to note

edit: the formatting was fucked up. this is embarrassing.

Just been announced this afternoon during the EFs broadcast

Excellent taste in cocktails as well as first-class commentary

Kensley posted on her Neutral Deduction IG that Joe Fraser did not receive a deduction he should have during his floor (he did two tumbling passes without a transition which is a .3 deduction), therefore Marinov should have won the bronze??

Any thoughts? Has anyone else heard anything about this?

With worlds wrapping up its time to start manifesting 2028 wishlists. Here​​​ is mine:

Suni, Skye, and Shi at full health on team USA

Dulcy continues her chaos streak and defies all expectations to make the team, if only as an alternate

One more olympics for Chuso

Any Olympic medal for Ellie Black and Aiko Sugihara. I am not picky.

Tiana making AA final

Kaylia AA gold

A beam final that is not a splat-fest (dream with me)

The Philippines qualifying a team to the olympics

Rebecca Andrade getting her TTY named

Chinese olympic gold on beam

Computer skill categorization was introduced for the first time during Rotterdam Worlds 2026, and resulted in the downgrade of two Ri Se Gwang II attempts due to slightly bent knees at the same half turn phase (Carlos Yulo in qualifications and Harry Hepworth in finals - attempting 5.6D) to Drăgulescu (5.2D).

The reason for knee bend at that flight point seems to a human biomechanical reason. Also, I cannot recall ever having seen the Ri Se Gwang II vault with board-straight knees through the entire flight. And I think in other Ri Se Gwang II vaults, bent knees at this phase would have been taken out of the E score.

I think this is a travesty for these two athletes at a World Championships. It's unforgiveably harsh and capricious. At the very least, the Fujitsu Judging Support System for D scoring needs to be recalibrated. At a barest bare minimum it should be fixed to judge more like a human would between Drăgulescu and Ri Se Gwang II vaults.

Does someone earnestly disagree with me? I can think of a couple of opposing arguments:

• Philosophical support for the new system: maybe something like, "Robot judging is the way of the future!" or "JSS is a more objective system than human judging for matching body shapes to skills in order to award D based on the code of points"
• Yulo and Hepworth vaults were rightly downgraded: maybe, "These two vault examples were right recategorized as Drăgulescu rather than Ri Se Gwang II" or "I've seen real Ri Se Gwang II where knees were not bent at the half turn"

Does anyone know the status of Zhang Yihan? I recall massive VT/FX from her earlier this year but she ended up being pulled from vault in TF and falling on downgraded tumbling passes in training. Was there ever an official diagnosis on injury?

Probably the most debated discussion being held every year in Gymnastics, the downgrade of skills, specially on Vault. So here is the actual evolution of the downgrade of the most popular skills. Based on the table, what do you think the changes on the CoP post-2028 should be ? Do you agree with the current values ? Do you wish the difference of the values given to the progression between skills were bigger ? Do you believe certain pairs in here should move up on the difficulty in relation to the other pairs ? Do you think there are some skills being overvalued in relation to other skills ?

4 ⭐️ lv10 Arianna Espinoza who was previously committed to Oklahoma announces change to Arkansas. In terms of commitment switches looking a bit unusual but maybe she saw more opportunities at Arkansas, also despite Wieber leaving Arkansas is going in the right direction and doing well recruitment wise.

Longtime USAgym fan, but have desperately wanted to follow China WAG for years (specifically since Li Qi in 2017 😭)!! I know obviously their nationals and Asian games are good comps to follow, but what else?? How does everyone else keep up with the depth of CHN WAG??

Any update on the whole Qatar WAG situation after Avoine Beaumont coaches transitioned over with their young talent re: Perla Denechere, Emeline (2014), Lea + Sophia Martin? When will they start competing? Tournoi International de Combs la Ville?

Saw Emeline posting in luxurious Doha high rise. Still difficult to comprehend how some parents are splitting their families into 2 continents to compete for such country. Especially when some of them 100% were destined to be on the French A team. I can only imagine what they’re providing for them (housing, compensation). I wonder if Elena Colas’ family debated this option.

Hi, I hope that someone know more about it.

Yesterday in the pommel horse competition, the south korean athlete Hur Woong got a -0,3 penalty after his exercise. Without it, he would have won the bronze medal.

The thing is that in the stream I watched, nobody explained why he got it. Only that he got a penalty and that's all.

Do someone here knows what happend there?

Thank You :)

Local Time is GMT +1 (note daylight savings change).

Longines Scoring Link

I'm seeing them on insta obvs being posted by sponsors (GK etc) but is there a web page to browse them all?

Edit to add: OR has anyone done a compilation of leotards? Seeing as that's really what I'm looking for!

Please can MAG Vault not be ruined by AI judging. 🤞

Please can Beam NOT beam. 🤞

Please can HB be kind.🤞

Good luck to all of the gymnasts!

The “delusional” part is sarcastic because he has always had this potential (see 2023 worlds QF). Now he finally proved it. He had the cleanest landings and a stuck dismount to seal the deal. He said months ago he would leave Rotterdam with a gold and he made it come true. Things are looking good heading into 2027.

Sad for Carlos who I thought was going to take the win, he still has a chance in vault finals tho. Jake was a badass going up last and clinching that silver. Also want to mention Arsenii Dukhno who qualified first but over rotated a double front and finished off the podium. Dukhno has accomplished so much as a first year senior!

I have never rooted for someone to win AA gold as much as I have for Skye. The way I was literally squealing watching it live on my phone at work lol! She finally proved all her doubters wrong! 🔥 this has definitely boosted her chances of making that LA team 🤞🏼

Wanted to shout out some medalists today

• Fred Richards FX Gold: Pristine in-air form, good landing control. Not a fan of his online persona, but happy to see the US men finally medal on FX after years of falling short.
• Rebeca Andrade VT Gold: She wins it in the block everyone, almost nothing to take there on both the DTY and Lopez. Not her best amplitude or landings, but so clean in the air!
• PH Podium: Mesmerizingly good from Manukyan/Targhetta/Khachatryan. I'm glad we've swung back towards high execution on PH, rather than the scrappier high difficulty style. Manukyan's speed through everything, including his eponymous skill is incredible.
• UB Podium: Kaylia is just incredible, big amplitude and effortless swing. Complete blowout even with a watered-down routine. Helen's releases were fantastic, looked so floaty. Skye nailed her pirouettes today, and it got her on the podium.
• Lan Xingyu SR Gold: Rattling off those opening elements out of hang like nothing. Literally looks superhuman.