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Noted Bars Specialist Flavia Saraiva: Two Golds and a Silver
Noted bars specialist Flavia Saraiva won the bars gold at the Szombathely World Cup.
Plus beam gold (invalid meet if she doesn't) and floor silver. Rebeca Andrade took beam silver, Greta Mayer won vault for the home nation, Dulcy Caylor won floor.
For the entire conversation, listen to this week's episode: Pre-Worlds Rules Review & Szombathely World Cup
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Leanne Wong Is Out of Selection Camp — No Worlds
Leanne Wong is out of World Team Selection Camp.
She petitioned to camp after hyperextending her knee in training at U.S. Championships, but the two-time world all-around silver medalist won't be in Rotterdam to defend it.
For the entire conversation, listen to this week's episode: Pre-Worlds Rules Review & Szombathely World Cup
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Pre-Worlds Rules: Inquiries, Alternates & Vault Chaos
🔮 We predict the future! It’s our annual PRE-WORLDS RULES REVIEW — the gymnastics rules most likely to cause chaos, controversy, inquiries and possibly cost someone a medal at World Championships.
🤸 Plus: FLAVIA SARAIVA, noted bars specialist, is the Szombathely BARS CHAMPION. We break down Flavia’s three medals, Rebeca Andrade’s return on beam, Dulcy Caylor’s floor victory, Tatum Drusch making all four finals, and another episode of “does anyone actually know what a laid out vault looks like?”
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The CEO on Secondary Trauma: She Didn’t Know Either
Secondary trauma — she didn't know about it either.
The CEO of SafeSport on what reading these cases every day does to the people who read them.
Want the full story? Listen to SafeSport Bans, Investigations & an Interview with the New CEO
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An Emotional Support Balance Beam
Can you bring a balance beam on a plane as an emotional support animal?
TaiShan gave Jessica a miniature display beam with purple feet, and she would now like to take it to Worlds. Spencer doesn't see why that would be unacceptable.
Thank you Steve Butcher, the TaiShan USA Distributor.
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She Won a Medal Holding Her Baby: “I Still Won This”
A gymnast in a leotard, holding her baby, with a medal.
Alice Kinsella is 25, has a one year old who watched her compete, and took third on bars. So much for what happens to you after you get your period.
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Why Take the Hardest Job: “It’s a Calling”
Why would anyone take the hardest job in American sport?
Benita Fitzgerald Mosley on why she said yes to running the U.S. Center for SafeSport.
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Why Cases Take So Long: No Subpoena Power
SafeSport has no subpoena power. That is why your case takes so long.
The CEO explains the limit almost nobody outside the building understands.
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Secondary trauma — she didn`t know about it either.
The CEO of SafeSport on what reading these cases every day does to the people who read them.
Want the full story? Listen to SafeSport Bans, Investigations & an Interview with the New CEO
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@benitafmosley
#gymnastics #SafeSport #Gymternet
Can you bring a balance beam on a plane as an emotional support animal?
TaiShan gave Jessica a miniature display beam with purple feet, and she would now like to take it to Worlds. Spencer doesn`t see why that would be unacceptable.
Thank you Steve Butcher, the TaiShan USA Distributor.
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#gymnastics #balancebeam
Who`s competing in Rotterdam? 🇳🇱
Meet the Worlds Roster Tracker, our new (and free!) home for every team and every gymnast headed to the 2026 World Championships, Oct 17–25.
🇫🇷 Latest: France has named its men`s team: Kevin Carvalho, Anthony Mansard, Naël Sakouhi, Melwin Touchais and Leeroy Traoré-Malatre, with Swaïmy Bellil as first reserve. That`s 10 of 48 teams officially named.
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A gymnast in a leotard, holding her baby, with a medal.
Alice Kinsella is 25, has a one year old who watched her compete, and took third on bars. So much for what happens to you after you get your period.
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@alicekinsella17
#gymnastics #Gymternet #TeamGB
Why would anyone take the hardest job in American sport?
Benita Fitzgerald Mosley on why she said yes to running the U.S. Center for SafeSport.
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@benitafmosley
#gymnastics #SafeSport #Gymternet
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Oliveira Finished 4th on Bars — The Code Is Wrong
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"If the Code of Points says Oliveira is behind Flavia Saraiva, the code is wrong."
Spencer contends Lorrane Oliveira did the best bars routine in the Szombathely final and finished fourth.
For the entire conversation, listen to this week's episode: Pre-Worlds Rules Review & Szombathely World Cup
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