USA, Brazil, France

The United States won an unprecedented seventh straight team world title in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Wednesday in Antwerp (BEL), overcoming early adversity to extend their decade of dominance in the sport. …

The team gold is Biles’s 20th World title and 26th World medal and gives her a total of 33 World and Olympic medals, more than any other gymnast in history.

“It wasn’t our perfect meet today — we had a teammate go down and we had some mistakes here and there,” said Biles, who praised the team’s “grit and fight.” …

Brazil’s roller coaster competition ended with the first World Championships medal for a team from South America in history. …

Meanwhile, the Paris 2024 Olympic hosts became the first French team to win a World medal since 1950. France’s highlights came on every apparatus: a powerful handspring Rudi vault from Devillard and a stuck double-twisting Yurchenko from de Jesus dos Santos, as well as a confident leadoff Balance Beam performance from Osyssek-Reimer under pressure …

FIG – U.S. women triumph as Brazil and France make history

clutch BEAM for Mélanie

Until this routine, I still didn’t believe France had a chance at Team Bronze.

Mélanie hit the routine of her LIFE to bring that medal to the Olympic hosts.

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Get good sleep. Have FUN out there.

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2024 American Girl of the Year is a GYMNAST

2024 is an Olympic year.

American Girl — the toy company — has announced its 2024 Girl of the Year—Lila Monetti.

She’s a 10-year-old growing up in Minnesota who is developing new hobbies and pushing through challenges. Both a horseback rider and competitive gymnast.

Minnesota? Isn’t Olympic Champion Suni Lee from Minnesota?

MUST be a coincidence.

Georgia Godwin interview

Looking forward to the Paris Olympics.

Has not ruled out continuing past the 2024 Games. She feels she’s still improving.

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Women’s Team Final result

GBR took the early momentum lead, winning the INTRO dance. 😀

But the big surprise was the Olympic host nation taking the Bronze.

USA

Brazil

France

I really enjoyed the competition. A thriller.

There were falls. And some personal BEST EVER routines.

Great Gymnastics overall.

Italy really impressed despite not having some of their biggest stars in this line-up.

Hashimoto Daiki on TEAM Gold

This feels better than his individual World and Olympic AA titles.

Men’s Team Final wrap-up

Japan was very happy to get back atop the Worlds team podium.

China brought in a replacement gymnast — perhaps the only one with a current visa for Europe. And it worked.

You can relive the drama by listening to Kensley’s LIVE podcast. SUBSCRIBE to that YouTube channel. We need at least 1000 subscribers by end of Worlds.

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Click PLAY or watch the GymCastic summing up on YouTube. With transcript.