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Rick McCharles @rickmccharles.com · 9h

My jots on Women’s Podium Training Jakarta World
Gymnastics Championships 2025. AIN (Russia) looks very, very good.
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Women’s Podium Training Jakarta Worlds

I love the first World Championships of the quadrennial. It’s fun to see all the new Worlds competitors and start speculating on which will qualify for L.A. Olympics 2028. Gymnastics Now has …

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GymCastic @gymcastic.com · 20h

For Zhang Boheng, here’s what gymnastics means:

“First, it means life and energy. It is vitality.
Second, gymnastics has made me who I am.
And finally, above all, it’s love.”

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Gymnastics Now @gymnasticsnow.bsky.social · 15h

2025 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Preview: Top contenders, schedule & how to watch Jakarta Worlds #ARTWorlds2025

2025 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Preview: Top contenders, schedule & how to watch Jakarta Worlds - Gymnastics Now

Everything you need to know about the 2025 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Jakarta (Oct 19–25): schedule, how to watch live, and the top all-around and event final contenders from the U.S. ...

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Rick McCharles @rickmccharles.com · 23h

Pommels will be the most fiercely contested apparatus at Gymnastics Worlds 2025. I'd say there are more than 15 men who could medal. WHO will win? DATA
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Rick McCharles @rickmccharles.com · 23h

Gymnastics VIDEO ➙ Kameron Nelson – podium training Floor
Highest difficulty score at Worlds. Two Triple Backs.
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Kameron Nelson – podium training Floor

Highest difficulty score at Worlds. … I love the thumbnail for this video. 😀 Triple Back ain’t easy. Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

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Rick McCharles @rickmccharles.com · 23h

Gymnastics VIDEO ➙ Refreshingly unscripted interviews with gymnasts of many different levels, all with different goals at the World Championships 2025.
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Gymnasts interviewed at Worlds

Here’s a refreshingly unscripted video with gymnasts of many different levels, all with different goals at the World Championships. Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

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Rick McCharles @rickmccharles.com · 23h

Russia is back as AIN 1. I anticipate they will win the most medals of any nation at Gymnastics Worlds 2025. NOT RUSTY.
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Russia at Jakarta Worlds

Many assumed AIN 1 (Russia) would have lost something over the many months they’ve been banned from international competition. Not so. Having just watched them in Podium training, I anticipat…

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Rick McCharles @rickmccharles.com · 23h

Both FIG President Watanabe and Secretary General Nicolas Buompane wanted Israel to compete Gymnastics Worlds Jakarta. PRESS CONFERENCE.
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Rick McCharles @rickmccharles.com · 1d

Gymnastics VIDEO ➙ Olympic Bars champion, Kaylia Nemour, is looking fantastic at World Championships in Jakarta.
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Kaylia Nemour – Vault & Bars

With YDT on Vault, Kaylia moves into the top group of women who could win an AA medal. This was the greatest Bars routine I’ve ever seen with my own eyes. Unbelievable. It does look much bett…

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Scott Bregman @sbregman87.bsky.social · 1d

Ellie Black still loves gymnastics. That’s why she’s here despite setbacks that shifted her perspective this season.

“Something I’ve been thinking about, especially this year, was just because you can, doesn’t mean you should,” she told me today.

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2025 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships: ‘Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should’ - Ellie Black’s next act

The Canadian veteran is redefining success as she focuses on bars and beam at the World Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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Kensley Behel @kensleybehel.com · 1d

PODCAST:

2025 World Gymnastics Championships Podium Training Recap l Episode 83

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2025 World Gymnastics Championships Podium Training Recap l Episode 83

YouTube video by Neutral Deductions

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Rick McCharles @rickmccharles.com · 2d

Gymnastics ➙ who will win Rings at Worlds 2025?
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Rick McCharles @rickmccharles.com · 2d

Gymnastics VIDEO ➙ Jamaica at Worlds – behind the scene
Men and women.
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Rick McCharles @rickmccharles.com · 2d

U.S. junior women’s team selected for 2025 Junior World Championships, Combs la Ville International Tournament.
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U.S. Jr Gymnastics Teams announced

U.S. junior women’s team selected for 2025 Junior World Championships, Combs la Ville International Tournament

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Rick McCharles @rickmccharles.com · 2d

Men's PODIUM training at World Gymnastics Championships 2025 Jakarta done. Thrills and spills. Here are my thoughts.
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Men’s Podium Training, Jakarta Worlds

I’m posting LIVE on @GymCoaching. Gymnastics Now has LIVE MAG Podium highlights: Podium training at the 2025 World Gymnastics Championships in Jakarta Here are some of my observations from bo…

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Rick McCharles @rickmccharles.com · 2d

VIDEO ➙ Olympic champ Carlos Yulo PODIUM training World Gymnastics Championships 2025 Jakarta. He has a sore wrist right now.
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Carlos Yulo (PHI) - FX - Podium Training - 2025 World Championships Jakarta

YouTube video by GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

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Rick McCharles @rickmccharles.com · 2d

VIDEO interview. Carlos Yulo has a bad wrist right now.
PODIUM training World Gymnastics Championships 2025 Jakarta.
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Carlos Yulo talks about Life After Olympic Gold, Graceful Gymnastics, and Simone Biles

YouTube video by GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

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Rick McCharles @rickmccharles.com · 2d

WHO will win Men's Floor at World Gymnastics Championships 2025 Jakarta? Yulo?
Here are the other top ranked contenders.
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Rick McCharles @rickmccharles.com · 2d

Suni Lee for Victoria Secret. Cat walk VIDEO.
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Rick McCharles @rickmccharles.com · 2d

VIDEO ➙ Brody Malone – H Bar
PODIUM training World Gymnastics Championships 2025 Jakarta.
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Rick McCharles @rickmccharles.com · 2d

VIDEO ➙ Canadians Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps have become the first Figure Skating pair in history to incorporate a backflip into their program. No longer BANNED.
They got elite gymnast Rose Woo to coach them on the partner toss Back Flip.
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Rick McCharles @rickmccharles.com · 2d

TICKETS for the Artistic World Gymnastics Championships 2026 in Rotterdam go on sale Oct. 17, 2025.
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GymCastic @gymcastic.com · 3d

Update from Worlds 🌏
The FIG confirmed to Jessica that EurovisionSport will broadcast all qualifications and finals. It will be embedded on the FIG site (qualifiers available worldwide, finals Europe only).
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Watch Gymnastics | Gymnastic World Championship Highlights & Replays | Eurovision Sport

Watch gymnastics live, and catch up on highlights and replays. Stream the Gymnastic World Championships, plus the Aerobic, Artistic, and Acrobatic Championships.

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Rick McCharles @rickmccharles.com · 3d

Glasgow hosted the best Gymnastics competition ever at Worlds 2015. I expect they will do a fantastic job with Commonwealth Games 23 July to 2 August, 2026.
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Glasgow 2026: Full competition plan revealed

Organisers unveiled the schedule for the upcoming Commonwealth Games, which are set to take place from 23 July to 2 August. Around 3,000 athletes from...

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Rick McCharles @rickmccharles.com · 3d

The Ukrainian men (without Kovtun) just finished Podium training. They decided to compete Worlds, even with AIN Russians here. Recall Ukraine opted out of the Paris World cup recently due to Russians competing. POLITICS in Gymnastics.
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Jakarta 2025: Geopolitics in the Gymnastics Arena

At the Jakarta 2025 Gymnastics World Championships, geopolitics takes center stage. Israelis are banned and Russians are back, setting up a charged competition.

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