Ellie Black – podium Beam

Pacing herself for a 5th Olympics in L.A. 2028, Ellie decided to compete only Beam and Bars in Jakarta. These are her 9th Wold championships.

One of the most consistent Beam workers, she’s got a good shot at qualifying for yet another Worlds Beam final.

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who will win Rings at Worlds 2025?

Men’s Podium Training, Jakarta Worlds

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Podium training at the 2025 World Gymnastics Championships in Jakarta

Here are some of my observations from both Podium Training & the training Gym.

I’ve seen perhaps 3/4 of the gymnasts, so far, over 2 days.

In Men’s Gymnastics, Podium Training is often a poor indicator of how gymnasts will compete. By this level, many of the guys have learned to save their best efforts until in front of judges. Podium may be used to get over jet-lag and get used to the TaiShan equipment.

Nobody wants to win the warm-up.

  • Fewer bad falls that I anticipated with the dismount bonus in effect. Still — one gymnast from France left with an injury. And there was another in the training Gym who medics took out after a bad H Bar dismount landing.
  • China is fantastic, of course, but somehow looks … vincible. Of course they often look bad early on at Worlds — then HIT perfectly when it actually counts. Good peaking, perhaps.
  • Japan looks great to me. I expect Oka Shinnosuke and Hashimoto Daiki to both HIT. Top 2 in the AA.
  • Japan strong on H Bar. All 3 routines include Liukin.
  • Noah Kuavita (Belgium) showed the best triple dismount I’ve seen, so far. Triple Pike at the end of an excellent H Bar routine. Félix Dolci 2nd best Triple Pike. Stuck.
  • GBR is the best Floor team in the world right now. Hepworth, Whitehouse, Jarman. Crazy good. Any of the 3 could medal on Floor here. But maximum two can make the Final.
  • As always, there are great gymnasts from unexpected nations all over the world.
  • Gymnasts told me there was a problem with a Horizontal Bar in the training gym. The cable attached at the top somehow got loose. I saw Taishan guys pounding those H Bars. Making sure it doesn’t happen again.
  • USA puts a higher priority on HITTING routines than any other nation. They are looking great.
  • There are MANY good H Bar routines. Must hit high difficulty just to make the Final. HIT clean and STICK likely needed to win. Triple backs are difficult to stick, by the way.
  • Brody Malone and others are finding the white mats difficult for spotting landings. Brody also said he finds the mats hard.

I’m cheering for Kam Nelson. Hoping he lands safely and stays inbounds on Floor.

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  • H Bar is much less ugly under the new code with fewer Rybalko skills. 😀
  • Floor is more artistic. Check our Olympic champion between tumbling passes.

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  • Yulo will only compete Floor and Vault here as he has a sore wrist. Too bad since his goal is the AA in the L.A. Olympics.
  • sounds like tickets for Rotterdam Worlds 2026 may already be sold out
  • Heath Thorpe was super clean on H Bar. He should have one of the highest E-scores.
  • Félix Dolci is wanting to add difficulty. He’s thinking L.A. 2028 as the goal.
  • Sam Zakutney added Liukin on H Bar. Looks great.
  • MANY great Pommel routines. At least 20 guys could make the Final if they hit.
  • Surprisingly, H Bar might be the second deepest field.

related – FIG – ‘It’s something special’: Notes from Thursday podium training at Jakarta Worlds

Of the many excellent videos I’ve seen on Podium Training, this one by the FIG team is my favourite.

Jamaica at Worlds – behind the scene

Men and women.

PODIUM training World Gymnastics Championships 2025 Jakarta. 

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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

Gymnastics Worlds ’26 Rotterdam TICKETS

TICKETS for the Artistic World Gymnastics Championships 2026 in Rotterdam go on sale Oct. 17, 2025.

Details.


Skating Pairs Back Flip

Back flips are finally legal in Figure Skating.

Canadians Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps have become the first pair in history to incorporate a backflip into their program, a move banned by the International Skating Union until last season.

They got elite gymnast Rose Woo to coach them on the partner toss Back Flip.

Only Ilia Malinin and Adam Siao Him Fa in men’s singles have done backflips since the move was made legal.

Stellato-Dudek has not seen a female attempt one since Surya Bonaly famously executed the banned back somersault at the 1998 Olympics.

At the 2024 ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Montreal, Stellato-Dudek—at 40 years old—became the oldest woman to ever win a world title in any figure skating discipline. 

She has no plans to retire after the 2026 Olympics, by the way. 😀

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Brody Malone – H Bar

LIVE from Worlds in Jakarta

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