Gymnastics World Championships

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He, um, typically it's on his Yanik-Kura vault, which is the, um, half-on and three and a half alt off, and he, if he sticks it, his mouth drops open in this, like, almost cartoonish, like, way, and it's happened at 2023 Worlds and 2025 Euros.

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Yeah.

We have to talk about your brother too, though.

Yeah, my brother is one of, exactly to the point you just made, he was one of those people who snuck in at 2023 Worlds.

Um, he had a, what is now, uh, he actually had two 4.8s.

The tumbling has evolved so much over the past two decades where now men are doing, some are doing two triple backs in their routines, like Cameron Nelson from the USA.

Last year at the Worlds, Jake Jarman was the world champion, and no one twists like him.

He is so, so talented in terms of that.

But I would say the person who is the favorite this year heading in is Carlos Yulo.

Yeah, I'd say that was my first like major, first major comp for Australia.

I did get selected for the 2019 Worlds team, but then unfortunately pulled out due to an injury right before we left.

So yeah, then obviously there was COVID and everything.

So I think 2022 con games was like my first major event.

I think it's worth noting though that in 2019 Worlds camp, like you, like your shins were in so much pain.

Yeah.

You know, when you say you pulled out because of injury, it's like you were walking on glass.

But it's, yeah, 2022 was such a breakout year for yourself.

I'm so excited about this.

Has withdrawn from Worlds this year or World Selection because the German team hasn't officially been selected yet, but she's out.

News came on the German Federation website today.

So terrible

The D panel of judges are the givers of credit.

The E's are the taketh awayers.

So at the Sambate World Cup, the floor D panel is the same, was the same D panel that is going to be at Worlds.

So the floor D's should be, and Donatello was there supervising, That should be what we're going to see at Worlds, which is very interesting to see who's getting higher and lower Ds at that competition than, say, maybe domestically.

It's not disrespect to other male gymnasts, but whether that's been like your success from, you know, 2020 onwards, or even earlier than that, that has put your name in like the international spotlight, giving more of a name to Australian gymnasts, Australian male gymnasts.

I think that's a really great thing where whether it is conscious or subconscious like you are creating that which is which is such a great great thing to sort of see um if we kind of look into the future and you've mentioned about how a goal is to have a full team in 2028 Um, what do you think that would take to, to sort of happen? Does that like for some of our listeners that maybe don't understand the Olympic process, um, what needs to happen? Is it this year's worlds that contributes to something? Was it next year's worlds? Like how does the process for that?

Yeah, so Olympic qualification for team is next year's Worlds.

It's top 12.

And then 13th to 15th, we'll get three named spots.

And, you know, we're all looking forward to seeing how, how Australia does.

Um, and it is very much the same team as the Commonwealth games in terms of like the same five boys in the reserve.

So I think that's really, really handy after you guys had this really great Comm Games to go into Worlds and be able to sort of do something.