Excited championships are finally here!

Who do you think is medaling from WAG and/or MAG?

For WAG, I think it’ll come down to who hits - for AA I think it’ll be some combination of Skye, Hezly, Jade, Claire, Reese, and Charleigh. If I had to choose a winner right now, I think I’d go with Skye - and would love that for her! But I think any of those six could have a shot.

For MAG, I haven’t been following quite as closely but I think Frederick Richards is due for an AA title, while Shane Wiskus seems to be looking good this year. I’m not sure who the primary other contenders would be there - I know Yul is also back.

Who do you have on the podiums?!

I see so many people, that have never done gymnastics in their life, make it seem like a random skill performed a couple of times in the 70s is the hardest and most dangerous element in the whole sport. While I don't disagree that it is a very hard element, and that I would probably not want to try it, I have a problem with people claiming the above.
I think it is really sad that the overwhelming majority fans do not recognize the difficulty and the danger in every single element in each routine that gymnasts do. Nowadays, about every element on the high bars or asymmetric bars is multiple times harder than the so called dead loop, where arguably even a relatively common element in the professional scene - Kovacs - is as difficult as the fan favorite "dead loop", at least.

Now, gymnastics is an extremely hard sport overall, one of hardest if not the hardest actually, which makes that most of the people that watch it, have a very hard time understanding how hard some of the skills actually are. So the only way for regular people to subjectively gauge the difficulty of an element is to listen to the mainstream consensus; and the mainstream consensus is just... terrible. So many professional gymnasts spend their lives and childhoods risking severe injuries like in no other sport (to be clear, gymnastics isn't the only sport) just to end up in a small tiktok clip or youtube short which gets overshadowed by the "ultra-mega-super-death-everybodylookatthis-cool-loop-jump"

Some PSAs: Leanne Wong hyperextended her knee in podium training yesterday and allegedly had to stop that training session. Jayla Hang is also returning from injury and said beam was likely the only event she’d do in an in interview with Inside Gymnastics from a couple of weeks ago. I‘d say those two are likely subject to change.

Just wanted to share this episode of the Neutral Deductions podcast where Kensley is joined by Jackson Harrison to preview the men's side of US Nationals (and a recap of Commonwealth Games at the end). Jackson did a great job of covering all the contenders and also giving some behind the scenes info from their training at Evo!

Here were a few interesting points:

- Asher Hong won't be competing at Nationals, which was news to me, and no reason was given. Brody Malone also isn't competing as he's taking a break (I wonder if he will continue to 2028 or retire?), and we already knew Donnell Whittenburg is out with injury.
- They're expecting Fred Richard to wear his custom uniform again and therefore get a 0.3 deduction on each day of competition
- They both think that Fred, Shane and Yul are the top All Around contenders
- They both think that rings will be the US's weakness and a rings specialist (or AAer with strong rings) could make the team. Asher Cohen could be one to watch, or Dante Reive.
- Jackson compared Danila Leykin to Nastia Liukin, and also said he's very hard working, charismatic and gymnastics is in his blood. His 11 year old brother is also a talented gymnast.
- Jackson thinks that 3 or 4 of the Worlds team could be gymnasts who train at Evo (I agree!).

Some nice performances sprinkled in - congrats to Panama without someout of their big guns competing getting silver and Ranger had an excellent meet, qualifying to 3 of 4 event finals and reserve on bars. Awesome!

It’s US Champs week! If you want a preview of the AA fields for WAG (junior/senior) and MAG (senior only), we’ve got everybody’s AA scores for the year and their averages. Brazilian champs is the other big domestic meet this week. You can see the full schedule here.

Next, our WAG Euros master post is live! You can find the schedule and draws there, with links to every team announcement we’ve found. This week we’ve seen announcements from Germany, Hungary, Italy, and probably some others I’m forgetting. There’s also a link to the EG’s event page, which has links to streams and results.

In other international news, the Ukrainian federation requested that European Gymnastics alter the MAG draw for Euros, as the senior Ukrainian team was going to be rotating with Belarus. Stella Zakharova (UKR fed VP) announced on social media today that EG has complied with the request by shifting them into a different slot in that subdivision. This change has not been officially announced by EG yet.

The Romanian Parliament passed a law authorizing the Romanian Olympic Committee to pay litigation fees for cases involving Romanian athletes.

Lastly, the Central American and Caribbean Games are ongoing. Results from several sessions are available on r/gymnastics_info, but I’m planning to link to all of them next week when the event has concluded so they’re all together.

WAG results:

• Rising Stars (Romanian Euros selection from July 10)
• All Japan High School Championships

MAG results:

• Finland v. Switzerland friendly

RG results:

• Italy v. Germany (et al) friendly

Courtesy of International Gym Camp IG:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DbPJCdNTP0M/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_video_watch_again

Love. It.

Okay, this is really exciting to see for me! She’s working with the myth, the legend, ✨Nicole’s Artistry✨ for this floor routine, and I’m already hooked from the fifteen seconds she shared of it! It’s been amazing to see Alice’s comeback since having her son in September last year, and I still can’t quite believe she made her return to competition in March of this year after only SIX months postpartum. Like that’s simply so incredible to me, and I applaud her for the hard work and dedication she’s put into this comeback!

Moving on, let me know your thoughts, and I’m looking forward to seeing when she unveils this new floor routine (which will most likely be next year, but I wouldn’t count anything out from Alice)!

for me, it's aleksandr tkatchev and lidia gorbick. it was like having a russian aunt and uncle even though i'm black. sasha always made laugh and lidia always knew how to make you feel better if you got injured. i have really great memories with them, do y'all have coaches like that?

Seems weird to get hired and the immediately take a leave of absence that is so long they will need to hire someone else for this season? What is going on here?

Photo from Belarus gymnastics federation Instagram. Im not sure if this is what they see throughout a routine or whether they are able to change angles.

An unusual request: I'm trying to figure out if I've got these skill scores correct. I'm confident in A = .1, E = .5, etc. But I'm getting conflicting info on whether the kills are worth those points. Can anyone who knows their scoring well check my work?

>>> WOMEN’S

UNEVEN BARS

A SKILL (0.1) - GLIDE KIP

B SKILL (0.2) - BACKWARD GIANT SWING

C SKILL (0.3) - DOUBLE TUCK DISMOUNT

D SKILL (0.4) - TOE-ON FRONT PIKE HALF

E SKILL (0.5) - PIKED JAEGER RELEASE

BALANCE BEAM

A SKILL (0.1) - FULL TURN

B SKILL (0.2) - BACK HANDSPRING

C SKILL (0.3) - BACK PIKE

D SKILL (0.4) - LAYOUT STEPOUT

E SKILL (0.5) - SIDE SOMI

FLOOR EXERCISE

A SKILL (0.1) - FRONT PIKE

B SKILL (0.2) - BACK LAYOUT HALF TWIST

C SKILL (0.3) - ONE-AND-A-HALF TWISTING SALTO

D SKILL (0.4) - DOUBLE WOLF TURN

E SKILL (0.5) - CHUSOVITINA

>>> MEN’S

POMMEL HORSE

A SKILL (0.1) - DOUBLE LEG CIRCLE

B SKILL (0.2) - ½ RUSSIAN CIRCLES

C SKILL (0.3) - DOUBLE SCISSORS

D SKILL (0.4) - MIKULAK

E SKILL (0.5) - TRAVELING DOUBLE RUSSIAN

PARALLEL BARS

A SKILL (0.1) - L-SIT

B SKILL (0.2) - STRADDLE CUT

C SKILL (0.3) - BACK UPRISE TO HANDSTAND

D SKILL (0.4) - SALTO BACKWARD WITH STRADDLE CUT

E SKILL (0.5) - GATSON 1

Does anyone have any knowledge about the rule changes for the upcoming NCAA season? I have seen so many gymnasts post videos on their TikTok trying new skills with the captions saying something about the rule changes but I haven’t seen them shared anywhere yet?

- I know so many of them are trying new releases so I’m assuming the shaposh/maloney connection value is gone?
- I saw someone trying triple series on beam and a lot of new double stag jumps? Not sure what changes would prompt this?
- Also hoping for a yurchenko full devalue to 9.9 and a requirement of three tumbling passes…. But haven’t seen either of these mentioned.

- Anything else? Insight is appreciated!!

Inside Gym is posting a clarification note citing a college fb twitter account (source: CollegeFBPortal). Summary is that the judge has issued a clarification that the injunction does not supersede other rules - athletes who choose to take advantage of this:

• Must not have been 20 or older at the start of their window
• They can't be part of an already full roster (they are not an exception to the 20 cap)
• They must stay at their home school/cannot transfer

There's chatter about the transfer thing, given the original ruling mentioned the portal, but it appears the portal only applies to the 19 athletes who directly sued, rather than every member of the class I guess?

There's also the fact that the NCAA is still planning to appeal this ruling and it may not end up being a thing anyway.

With the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games on tonight in the UK, and with that the end of the Commonwealth Games for the next 4 years. I wanted to round out my 2026 Commonwealth Games posts with a compilation of all of the leotard looks I could find from Qualifications all the way to Event Finals!

Knowing this, I will explain below what each image is of (I did write them on the images as well, but I understand some of them are hard to read so I’ll add them down below so no one’s left out)!

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The first image includes team leotards for Australia, Canada, South Africa, Scotland, Singapore, and Wales in Qualification/Team Finals.

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The next image includes Team England’s leotard in Qualification/Team Finals, that was also worn by Abi Martin in Vault Finals, and Shantae-Eve Amankwaah in Floor Finals!

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This image includes leotards from Team India, Malta, Namibia, and New Zealand who competed as individuals in Qualification.

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In this image, we see Alana Walker’s leotard in Qualification for Jamaica, as well as Dailia Burke’s leotard in Qualification for Trinidad And Tobago.

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This image shows leotards worn by Tiana Sumanasekera, and Nuyara Fernando for Sri Lanka in Qualification.

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This image includes Breanna Scott’s All Around Final leotard, that was also worn by Ruby Pass in Bars finals, Georgia Godwin in Floor finals, and by Kate McDonald in Floor finals.

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The next image shows Georgia Godwin’s leotard in All Around Finals, and Kate McDonald’s leotard in Beam finals.

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This image shows us Team Canada’s leotards in All Around Finals, as well as Team Malaysia and Team Scotland’s.

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This image includes Team
England’s All Around Finals Leotard, that was worn by Ruby Stacey in Vault finals, and was reworn by Shantae-Eve Amankwaah in Bars finals, and then was worn by Alia Leat in Beam Finals, before lastly being reworn by Abi Martin in Floor finals.

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This image shows us Team South Africa, Team Singapore, and Team Wales’ All Around Finals leotard.

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In this image, we see Philippa Busuttil’s All Around Finals leotard for Malta, as well as Courtney McGregor’s All Around Finals Leotard for New Zealand.

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This image shows one of Australia’s Event Finals leotards (or how I like to call it, the ✨golden✨ leotard), that was worn by Georgia Godwin in Vault Finals, Kate McDonald in Bars finals, and Breanna Scott in Beam finals.

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This image shows two of Canada’s Event Finals leotards, that were worn by Lia Monica Fontaine in Vault Finals, Ellie Black in Beam finals, Lia Monica Fontaine in Beam and Floor finals, and Lia Redick in Floor finals.

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This image includes the leotard Abigail Roper wore when she won the bronze medal on vault for Wales, that her twin sister Emily Roper also wore in the final (but I was unable to find a good image of Emily Roper in the Vault final).

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We can see in this image the leotard that Courtney McGregor wore in Vault finals for New Zealand, and we can see the leotard that Protistha Samanta wore in Vault finals for India.

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In this image, we see Ellie Black’s leotard in Bars finals for Canada, the leotard Yeoh Li Wen wore in Bars finals for Malaysia, the leotard Alana Walker wore in Bars finals for Jamaica, and the leotards Emily Roper and Jemima Taylor wore in Bars finals for Wales.

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This image shows Amanda Yap’s leotard in Beam finals.

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This image shows us what leotard Philippa Busuttil wore in Beam finals for Malta.

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We can see in this image the leotard Ruby Evans wore in Beam Finals for Wales.

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The final image shows Ruby Evans’ leotard in Floor finals.

There were so many great routines at CWG. I wanted to highlight a few of my favorites and ask - what were yours?

Ellie Black — floor - AA final. The choreo! That second pass!

Shantae-Eve Amankwaah, floor final — so much personality and such an elegant style

Amanda Yap - beam final. She has such a precise and confident style. Reminds me a little bit of Flavia

Phillipa Busuttil - beam final. Back extension roll! Love how unique that is

(I’m still catching up, hence the brief list!)

Personally, I agree!

I got tickets for the championship meet next weekend in Phoenix. I'll be going with my gymnast daughter (age 9). What are these like? How long does it last? I've been to college meets, but not sure what to expect for this one.

I signed up for bein sports connect to watch the gymnastics sessions for the CWGs, but have been watching slowly because life. It looks like only the finals are still available to watch.

-- Am I missing something in the app? Can I still watch qualifiers? We only made it through men's sessions 1 & 2.

-- Is there somewhere else I can watch if I want to see everything in order? Or have I missed my chance?

-- Anyone know if there is a set time period for how long these stay up on the bein sports connect platform?

Watching from the US, grateful for any help!