Let’s dissect every moment from Day One of the 2026 U.S. Women’s World Team Trials in Crossville, Tennessee! This is our live post-meet Q&A show, where we answer your questions. We’ll start about an hour after the meet ends (6pm Pacific/8pm local). Here’s how to ask questions live. Can’t make it live? Add Club bonus episodes to your favorite podcast player (instructions here). Tip: After logging in, refresh this page and the extended player will appear below. Not a member? Join here.
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HOW TO FOLLOW THE 2026 U.S. WORLD TEAM TRIALS EVENT
The 2026 U.S. Women’s World Team Selection Event is September 30–October 1 at FlipFest in Crossville, Tennessee. Both days stream live on FlipNow.TV.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 — DAY ONE (ALL-AROUND)
- 4:30 p.m. Central / 2:30 p.m. Pacific — live on FlipNow.TV
- PODCAST — Day One Report, live after the meet (this page)
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1 — DAY TWO
- 10:00 a.m. Central / 8:00 a.m. Pacific — live on FlipNow.TV
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2 — WORLD TEAM REPORT
- USA Gymnastics nominates the 2026 World Championships team on or before October 2.
- PODCAST — Behind The Scenes: World Team Report, our live Q&A breaking down the U.S. team for Rotterdam
WHAT’S AT STAKE
- Two automatic spots on the U.S. team for Rotterdam. They go to the top two on a composite score: 60% from the Day One all-around score here and 40% from the two-day all-around total at the U.S. Championships in Phoenix.
- Three more team spots and two replacement athletes (one traveling, one non-traveling), chosen at the selection committee’s discretion based on results, D- and E-scores, consistency, team composition and health.
- The athletes (tap a name to see her scores in the Elite Score Explorer): Skye Blakely, Charleigh Bullock, Jade Carey, Dulcy Caylor, Tatum Drusch, Reese Esponda, Zoey Molomo, Caroline Moreau, Claire Pease, Lila Richardson, Hezly Rivera and Simone Rose.
Sources: USA Gymnastics event page and 2026 WAG World Championships selection procedures.
CLUB EXCLUSIVE · ROSTER LABYOU PICK THE WORLDS TEAMTwo spots are automatic. The other three are up to the selection committee — so who would you send to Rotterdam? Build your five-woman team in Roster Lab, turn on the Worlds camp filter to narrow the pool to the athletes invited to Crossville, and see which lineup puts up the highest team score. Then see how your picks stack up when the team is named.BUILD YOUR WORLDS TEAM →
LIVE RESULTS
Official live-results link: TBA
ROAD TO ROTTERDAM: 2026 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS SCHEDULE
The 2026 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships are October 17–25 at Rotterdam Ahoy in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. GymCastic will be inside the arena from podium training through the final day. Every session converted to your time zone is on Worlds HQ.
Rotterdam time first, then Pacific time. Rotterdam is nine hours ahead of Pacific through October 24 and eight hours ahead on October 25, when Europe leaves summer time.
- Wednesday, October 14: Men’s podium training, 10:00 and 16:00
- Thursday, October 15: Men’s podium training 10:00; women’s podium training 16:00 (7:00 a.m. PT)
- Friday, October 16: Women’s podium training, 9:30 and 16:00 (12:30 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. PT)
- Saturday, October 17: Men’s qualification, sessions 1 and 2
- Sunday, October 18: Men’s qualification session 3; women’s qualification session 4
- Monday, October 19: Women’s qualification, sessions 5 and 6
- Tuesday, October 20: Men’s team final, 19:00 (10:00 a.m. PT)
- Wednesday, October 21: Women’s team final, 19:00 (10:00 a.m. PT)
- Thursday, October 22: Men’s all-around final, 19:30 (10:30 a.m. PT)
- Friday, October 23: Women’s all-around final, 19:30 (10:30 a.m. PT)
- Saturday, October 24: Apparatus finals day one, 14:00 (5:00 a.m. PT) — men’s floor, pommel horse and rings; women’s vault and uneven bars
- Sunday, October 25: Apparatus finals day two, 14:00 (6:00 a.m. PT) — men’s vault, parallel bars and high bar; women’s balance beam and floor
UP NEXT
- Friday, October 2: Behind The Scenes: World Team Report — our live Q&A on the U.S. team for Rotterdam
- Worlds preview shows on the main GymCastic podcast, October 5 and October 12
- Daily Worlds coverage for Club Gym Nerd members from Rotterdam, starting with women’s podium training — or get it all with the Worlds Coverage Bundle
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GYMCASTIC TOOLS, GAMES AND RESOURCES
- ROSTER LAB: PICK YOUR WORLDS TEAM (Club exclusive)
- Build your U.S. team for Rotterdam from the World Team Selection Camp athletes, auto-fill the highest-scoring lineup and compare teams. Then keep going with your LA 2028 Olympic team.
- *NEW* ROTTERDAM WORLDS ROSTER TRACKER
- Find out who’s competing in the 2026 World Championships — search WAG and MAG by name or country, find out how they qualified and link to their score rankings. Updated daily.
- GymCastic tools:
- Elite Score Explorer — U.S. Championships scores are in, plus new charting options and the vault bonus toggle.
- International Gymnastics Calendar
- GymCastic Games
- GymCastic Newsletters
- The Balance Beam Situation: Spencer Barnes’ GIF Code of Points
- Gymnastics History: Gymnastics history and Code of Points archive from Uncle Tim
- Resistance Resources
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Do you anticipate being able to interview Jade regarding why there weren’t upgrades for floor? Do you see any world where Jade can do anything tomorrow to lock in a position? Thank you Spencer-totally agree that if you’re going to do a pay per view you need to make sure it works ahead of time, and ideally have names and scores overlayed or an announcer even. (Youtube for free would make so much sense in the first place).
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Other than Suni (and Simone, who you’ve made clear won’t return), who do you wish had been back in time to try for World’s this year? Do we think Shilese is going to try for 2028?