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CHAPTERS
Full Club episode. The free preview runs through 27:19.
00:00 Welcome to the women’s all-around final
00:46 Skye Blakely is world all-around champion
03:20 Winning Worlds on her own plan
06:09 Kaylia Nemour’s vault disaster
10:22 Ke Qinqin’s beam is so good she can fall and still medal
11:33 Liudmila Roshchina’s surprise silver
13:02 Claire Pease’s beam fall
15:15 Skye, Florida and the college-elite path
18:37 Skye’s four events
20:23 The world feed problem
21:33 Opportunity for comedy: Alena Glotova falls off beam twice
22:43 Best moment: Lisa Vaelen’s straddle full
23:52 Ellie Black performs the beam rage away
24:46 A correction: Gina Pongetti and MedGym
25:51 Club Gym Nerd and GymCastic Live
27:11 Club bonus begins: the international world peace officer
28:01 Why press row cried for Skye
30:33 Roshchina defeats the beam witch
31:53 Elena Colas and the artistry argument
33:45 Double fulls in the lead group
36:18 Aiko Sugihara, so close
37:10 Alba Petisco’s 54-plus
38:41 Flavia Saraiva and the troll king under the beam
39:57 Claire Pease and Valeri Liukin, in sync
40:59 Giulia Perotti, Sofia Tonelli and Alice Kinsella
43:03 Maiana Prat, Rina Kishi and Breanna Scott
44:00 Letters: Was Nemour’s beam score accurate?
46:00 Should a pause count as a connection?
47:51 What do the Japanese gymnasts yell?
48:13 Live show tips for Rotterdam Ahoy
50:04 Fujitsu and Skye’s lowered beam score
52:40 The floor I helped fix
54:58 Under the arena and the kids’ press conference
55:58 Goodbye until the live show
HEADLINES
- Skye Blakely (USA) wins the world all-around title with 55.733 on a plan built for 2028: no Cheng, a backup beam series, and the best beam we’ve ever seen from her. Her Florida coach on why it happened at Florida, and how USA Gymnastics’ changes let college athletes stay elite.
- Kaylia Nemour (ALG) overruns the board on her opening vault, lands on the safety collar, scores 12.366 on a layout, and saves bars and beam to finish fourth. Plus the world feed that took forever to show it.
- Liudmila Roshchina hits four for four for silver, Ke Qinqin (CHN) falls on beam and still wins bronze, and Claire Pease (USA) is one beam fall away from a medal.
- Opportunity for comedy: Alena Glotova falls off beam, jumps back on and falls right back off. Best moment: Lisa Vaelen (BEL)‘s side-position straddle full, and Ellie Black (CAN) performs her way past a beam fall. Plus a thank-you to Gina Pongetti of MedGym for caring for Fact Checker.
- Club bonus: the international world peace officer, why press row cried for Skye, Elena Colas (FRA)‘s artistry, Aiko Sugihara (JPN), Alba Petisco (ESP), Flavia Saraiva (BRA), Alice Kinsella (GBR), Claire Pease and Valeri Liukin‘s mirrored beam ritual, and your letters on Fujitsu and Skye’s beam D score, pauses between connections, live show tips and the floor one listener helped fix.
RESULTS
Women’s all-around final, Friday, Oct. 23, Rotterdam Ahoy. Every session in your time zone is on Worlds HQ.
- Skye Blakely (United States) 55.733
- Liudmila Roshchina (WG2 (Russia)) 55.199
- Ke Qinqin (China) 55.032
- Kaylia Nemour (Algeria) 54.998
- Aiko Sugihara (Japan) 54.765
- Elena Colas (France) 54.666
- Claire Pease (United States) 54.232
- Alba Petisco (Spain) 54.198
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Tomorrow, Saturday, Oct. 24: apparatus finals begin at 14:00 Rotterdam (5:00 a.m. PT), and GymCastic Live in Rotterdam starts at 19:00 (10:00 a.m. PT) with Bart Deurloo and Eythora Thorsdottir. Sunday, Oct. 25: the last day of apparatus finals and our final live podcast from Rotterdam.
WORLDS COVERAGE
- 2026 World Championships Headquarters: all 18 sessions in your time zone, every qualified team and gymnast, medal lines and how to watch
- 2026 World Championships: Men’s All-Around Final
- 2026 World Championships: Women’s Team Final
- 2026 World Championships: Men’s Team Final
- 2026 World Championships: Women’s Qualification, Day Two
- 2026 World Championships: Women’s Qualification, Day One
- Behind The Scenes: Nemour, BRA, CHN, GB, RUS, CAN, FRA, NED – Podium Training
- 2026 World Championships: Women’s Podium Training, Day One
- Photo Gallery: 2026 World Championships – Podium Training, October 14
- 2026 Worlds Preview Part 2: Andrade, Melnikova & China’s Beam Powerhouse
- 2026 Worlds Preview Part 1: Team USA, Kaylia Nemour & Japan’s Medal Threat
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Does anyone else feel like the scoring is kind of all over the place this week? I’m having trouble understanding some of these E scores. People with falls having similar scores to hit routines. The KQQ and ZQY scores today in beam were strange to me. Kaylias beam E score was weird to me.
I think I’m having trouble applying the artistry deductions
Chinas beam will smack you in the Face needs to be a t shirt. lol
Today’s BBC update talks about a women’s pommel horse final..