Elite season is back with the Cottbus World Cup and Winter Cup, where Frederick Richard debuted his genius marketing campaign uniform revolution, impossible scores, and the Oklahoma mini-documentary!
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AWARDS
- The Most Winter Cup Award
- Zoey Molomo's unintentional dismount
- Runner up: Claire Pease getting a full point of OOB deductions on floor
- The Best Way to Get People Talking About Men's Gymnastics Award
- Frederick Richards' revolutionary basketball pajamas at Winter Cup
- Best Reason to Cancel NCAA Gymnastics as a Sport
- One judge gave Kayli Boozer a 9.550 WITH A FALL.
- Injury updates
- Anya Pilgrim (Florida), Sloane Blakely (Florida), Charlotte Booth and Jennifer Gadirova (GB), Brianna Taurek (Cal)
Winter Cup
- Ashlee Sullivan is your 2025 Winter Cup Champion! Jayla Hang came in second despite a fall on beam, and Simone Rose came in third
- Wait a second... did the U.S. get the memo about beam choreography?
- Why NASA needs to hire Kelise Woolford because have you seen her Jaeger?
- Why everyone and their mother is suddenly doing a second vault
- Event Champions
- Zoey Molomo is looking ready for college
- Alicia Zhou won bars with her amazing E-score
- Tatum Drusch and Claire Pease shared the beam title
- How we know Nola Matthews actually read the new Code
- The skill that Vivi Crain did that made us all swoon
GYMTERNET NEWS
- Serenity gardens, chandeliers and “We can say that’s better but better is still a deduction, right? And better is less than you are capable of.” - what learned from the SEC Networks's "Inside Oklahoma Gymnastics" mini-documentary.
- We have another all-Black podium! This time at Elite Canada
- Eythora will be competing at Gymnix
Cottbus World Cup
- Why we have problems with the award ceremonies
- The vaulting is for grown-ass women club: all vault medalists were 30+
- The German audience applauded the men who could actually hold a scale
- Noah Kuavita understands the assignment and threw all the big-D skills
- Thoughts on the new 0.2 women's post-flight bonus
- Why Artur Davtyan's vaulting could lead to a potential Doordash sponsorship
NCAA
- What are the ranking shakeups after week 8?
- LSU, UCLA, Cal, Georgia, and Florida
- Florida had an injury apocalypse at Oklahoma and had to count a fall on beam
- Cal scored a season-high 197.775 against Pittsburgh
- We have problems with BTN's coverage of gymnastics
- Pride meet alert: Cal hosted a pride meet with very prominent pride flags
- Ondine finally made her beam lineup debut!
- We hand Clemson the "Gaslighting the Judges" award
- Mika Webster-Longin and her Yurchenko 1.5 wins the "Figuring it Out" award
UP NEXT
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- College & Cocktails: The Live NCAA Gymnastics Post-Meet Show
- after Arkansas v Alabama on Friday, Feb 24th at 6:30pm Pacific
- Spencer is doing a watch-along watch along live blog at 3:00pm Pacific before College & Cocktails
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