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

- 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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FANTASY GAME:

- GymCastic 2025 College Fantasy Game now open. Never too late to join!
- ALL TEAMS MUST REDRAFT THIS WEEK before Friday at 2:15pm Pacific

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MERCH

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NEWSLETTERS

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RESOURCES

Spencer's essential website The Balance Beam Situation
Gymnastics History and Code of Points Archive from Uncle Tim
Kensley’s all things men’s gymnastics: Neutral Deductions

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