Live Blog: 2023 Xfinity U.S. Gymnastics Championships | Senior Women

Sun. Aug. 27 @ 5:14 p.m.

Top scores from Rotation 3:

• VT: Shilese Jones = 14.400
• UB: Skye Blakely = 14.400
• BB: Simone Biles = 14.850
• FX: Amelia Disidore = 13.450

Sun. Aug. 27 @ 5:08 p.m.

Kaliya Lincoln UB: Stalder 1/1, very short. Chow to stalder Tkatchev and she’s off. Remounts, hits the next skill, Pak salto was a struggle, completely bent knees. Van Leeuwen with leg separation. Double back was beautiful. 9.9, including a -0.1 ND.

Sun. Aug. 27 @ 5:05 p.m.

Jordan Chiles off on beam. Didn’t see on what skill, but did see she fought for it and couldn’t hang on. 12.100.

Sun. Aug. 27 @ 5:01 p.m.

Simone Biles BB: Switch leap to switch half to back pike is a hit today! She missed that connection on Day 1. Triple wolf turn, excellent. Front aerial to split jump to straddle jump. BHS LOSO LOSO, solid. Side aerial. Full-twisting double back, hop back. 14.850.

Sun. Aug. 27 @ 4:50 p.m.

Joscelyn Roberson BB: Clean standing full. Switch leap to switch half to back tuck, excellent. Side aerial to LOSO LOSO, little hesitation on the landing but clean. Full turn. Bobble on her Onodi. Double pike, small step. 13.200.

Jade Carey FX: Full-twisting double-double, great. Tucked double-double, little bit of a rebound. Clean front layout through to double pike. Double back, another bit of a rebound. 13.100, -0.1 ND.

Sun. Aug. 27 @ 4:46 p.m.

Shilese Jones VT: Another lovely and powerful double-twisting Yurchenko. 14.400.

Sun. Aug. 27 @ 4:44 p.m.

Skye Blakely UB: Stalder half to piked Jaeger. Stalder to piked Tkatchev to Pak salto, floaty. Toe 1/1 on top of the bar to Van Leeuwen. Double front half, just a small hop. 14.400.

Sun. Aug. 27 @ 4:42 p.m.

Leanne Wong VT 1: Good DTY. 14.050.

VT 2: Half-on, full off. Also good.

Kayla DiCello UB: Toe 1/1 to Chow to clear hip. Piked Tkatchev. Piked Jaeger. Pak Salto. Van Leeuwen. Full-twisting double back. 13.800.

Sun. Aug. 27 @ 4:38 p.m.

Top scores from Rotation 2:

• VT: Skye Blakely = 14.250
• UB: Zoe Miller = 14.400
• BB: Suni Lee = 14.200
• FX: Shilese Jones = 14.100

Sun. Aug. 27 @ 4:35 p.m.

Suni Lee BB: She fell on her flight series Day 1, so looking for a redeeming routine today. Straddle mount. Triple wolf turn, good. Front aerial to split jump to BHS, little bobble but she saves it. Switch leap to switch half to ring jump, good, maybe a bit conservative. Side aerial LOSO LOSO is good today, besides the slightest bobble. Switch ring to split leap, don’t know if she’ll get that connection. Stuck tucked gainer full. 14.200.

Sun. Aug. 27 @ 4:31 p.m.

Shilese Jones FX: Wolf turn. Tucked double-double, clean but hop forward. Triple (?) L-turn, lovely. This routine is stunning. Front full through to double back. Full-twisting double back. Feel like the international judges are going to love that. 14.100.

Simone Biles UB: Clear hip half to Maloney. 1/1 to piked Tkatchev to Pak salto. Van Leeuwen. Toe 1/1 to full-twisting double back. Fab. 14.050.

Sun. Aug. 27 @ 4:26 p.m.

Joscelyn Roberson UB: Clear hip half to Ezhova. Clear hip 1/1, a bit over. Maloney to Pak salto. Toe shoot. Clear hip. Toe-on. Double layout. If you’re wondering, she is, indeed, missing the same bar release requirement, but her coach Laurent said they’re focused on her hitting right now and will work on adding the gienger or another skill after this. 11.800.

Jade Carey BB: Carey falls on beam for the second day. 12.050.

Sun. Aug. 27 @ 4:16 p.m.

Leanne Wong FX: Basically stuck tucked double-double. Stuck double layout. Girl is COMING for that all-around podium. Wonginators, this is your time. Double L-turn to full turn. Half to front full, hop forward, but she stays in bounds. Stuck double pike. ICON. 14.000.

Sun. Aug. 27 @ 4:14 p.m.

Jordan Chiles UB: Toe 1/1. Off on her piked Tkatchev, just missed the catch. Redoes it and connects to the Pak salto. Maloney to inbar gienger. Piked Jaeger. Bail. Toe shoot. Stuck full-twisting double back. 12.950.

Kaliya Lincoln VT: Strong double-twisting Yurchenko. 13.900.

Kayla DiCello VT: Another clean double-twisting Yurchenko. Legs might’ve been a bit soft. 14.100.

Zoe Miller UB: Inbar 1/1 to Maloney. Straddled Tkatchev. Stalder to piked Tkatchev to Pak salto. Van Leeuwen. Nearly stuck double layout. 14.300.

Skye Blakely VT 1: Probably the best of double-twisting Yurchenkos this rotation. Minimal pike, straight legs. 14.250.

VT 2: Half-on, full off. Very clean. 14.150 average.

Sun. Aug. 27 @ 4:01 p.m.

Top scores from Rotation 1:

• VT: Simone Biles = 14.850
• UB: Alicia Zhou = 13.600
• BB: Shilese Jones = 14.300
• FX: Kaliya Lincoln = 14.050

Sun. Aug. 27 @ 4:00 p.m.

BEAUTIFUL flared out full-twisting double layout and ensuing double layout. So clean.

Sun. Aug. 27 @ 3:57 p.m.

Joscelyn Roberson VT 1: Better Cheng than Day 1 – excellent! Basically stuck. Still needs a little more height/distance, but it’s slowly improving. 14.450

VT 2: Double-twisting Yurchenko – clean and should earn her the title since Biles didn’t do a second. 14.175 average.

Skye Blakely FX: Tucked double-double, too big of a rebound and touches the floor. Huge double layout, OOB. Double wolf turn. Punch front through to double back, OOB. 12.200, -0.3 ND.

Leanne Wong BB: Beautiful BHS LOSO. Lovely single L-turn. Lovely 2.5 dismount. Coming for her third-straight world team berth. 13.700.

Jade Carey UB: Toe-on straddled Tkatchev. Ezhova. Maloney to Bhardwaj. Van Leeuwen looked a bit sloppy. Full-twisting double back, small hop. Overall, a clean set, and great for Jade to get that out of the way. 13.250.

Sun. Aug. 27 @ 3:50 p.m.

Kayla DiCello FX: Good opening double-double, small hop back. Triple wolf turn. 1.5 to front full, small hop forward. Basically stuck double pike. Probably the best routine of DiCello’s elite comeback so far.

Sun. Aug. 27 @ 3:41 p.m.

Kaliya Lincoln FX: The talk is Lincoln is a dark horse for the world team, partially because of this routine. HUGE tucked double-double that she flairs out somehow. Full-twisting double layout, slightlyyy short so has to stutter forward, but she’s possible the least piked of anyone in the field on that skill. Punch front full through to double back – outstanding. 14.050, -0.1 ND.

They have Zoe Miller credit for a DTY originally, but it’s since been corrected and the score is a 13.600.

Sun. Aug. 27 @ 3:41 p.m.

Kaliya Lincoln FX: The talk is Lincoln is a dark horse for the world team, partially because of this routine. HUGE tucked double-double that she flairs out somehow. Full-twisting double layout, slightlyyy short so has to stutter forward, but she’s possible the least piked of anyone in the field on that skill. Punch front full through to double back – outstanding. 14.050, -0.1 ND.

They have Zoe Miller credit for a DTY originally, but it’s since been corrected and the score is a 13.600.

Sun. Aug. 27 @ 3:38 p.m.

Shilese Jones BB: Switch leap to switch half – excellent. Let’s see if she makes this connection today… nope, just the standing Arabian. Takes the split jump out. BHS BHS two-footed layout is excellent. Side aerial, lovely. Switch leap to Sissone. Excellent double pike, just a small step. 14.300.

Jordan Chiles VT: Lovely double-twisting Yurchenko. Great power. 14.250.

Sun. Aug. 27 @ 3:35 p.m.

Simone Biles VT: Starts with the Cheng, just a step. Less overpowered than its looked this week, which is a good thing… and that’s it. No Yurchenko double pike today. We’ll find out after why she opted not to, but what’s a U.S. vault title in the grand scheme of things? She got her reps in for the two earlier this week ahead of selection camp and worlds. 14.850 – 9.250 execution score.

Sun. Aug. 27 @ 3:32 p.m.

Tiana Sumanasekera VT: Very nice double-twisting Yurchenko, one large step back. 14.100.

Sun. Aug. 27 @ 3:30 p.m.

Intros over! One touch happening now for Rotation 1. Here’s the routines to look out for this rotation:

• Vault: Biles, Chiles, Roberson
• UB: Disidore, Booth, Carey
• BB: Jones, Matthews, Wong
• FX: Lincoln, Blakely

Biles and the WCC crew will rotate in Olympic order (vault, bars, beam, floor).

Reminder that the top two all-arounders earn automatic invites to world team selection camp. Right now, that’s Biles and Jones.

Sun. Aug. 27 @ 3:18 p.m.

Athlete intros about to get started, but first, they’re honoring the Beijing 2008 men’s and women’s teams on the 15th anniversary of that Games.

Sun. Aug. 27 @ 3:06 p.m.

Sun. Aug. 27 @ 2:56 p.m.

Welcome back inside the SAP Center for Day 2 of the senior women’s competition! Competition will get started at 3:30 PT and you can watch on NBC or Peacock (International? Watch on YouTube!). Follow live scores here.

Catch up on what happened Day 1 by scrolling back through the live blog and/or reading our recap!

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 7:42 p.m.

After Day 1, Simone Biles leads the all-around with a 59.300 – 2.55 points ahead of Shilese Jones, who earned a 56.750 in her first competition since 2022 worlds. Rounding out the top 3 is Skye Blakely (55.700).

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 7:27 p.m.

Top scores from Rotation 4:

• VT: Skye Blakely = 14.350
• UB: Simone Biles = 14.350
• BB: Amelia Disidore = 13.300
• FX: Shilese Jones = 14.050

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 7:24 p.m.

Suni Lee BB: Suni might as well be a beam specialist right now, so this routine is very important for her world team prospects, or just trying to get to selection camp. Triple wolf turn is perfect. Front aerial to split jump to BHS. Switch leap to switch half to ring jump, as it should be done. Side aerial to LOSO LOSO and she’s off. Switch ring, small stumble. Stuck tucked gainer full. 13.250.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 7:22 p.m.

Nothing quite like having two Olympic all-around champions going at the same times – Suni on beam and Simone on bars.

Simone Biles UB: Clear hip 1/2 to Maloney. 1/1 to piked Tkatchev to Pak salto. Van Leeuwen. Toe 1/1 to full-twisting double back, nearly stuck. That darn toe 1/1 was giving her trouble in training, so good to see her get through it. 14.350.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 7:19 p.m.

Jordan Chiles UB: Hits and she looks… kind of surprised? As she hugs Laurent lol. 14.200. Great score for Jordan!

Shilese Jones FX: Triple wolf turn, beautiful. Tucked double-double, small hop. Double L-turn to double turn. Punch front full through to huge double back. This routine is stunninggggg. International judges are going to love this. Full-in dismount. 14.050.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 7:16 p.m.

Zoe Miller UB: Struggles with her opening inbar sequence. Goes for it twice, misses it twice, and finally comes off. Doesn’t try again when she re-mounts. Chow. Toe 1/2 to straddled Tkatchev. Stalder to Piked Tkatchev to Pak salto. Van Leeuwen. Nearly stuck double layout. 11.000

Skye Blakely VT: STUCK double-twisting Yurchenko. ICE COLD. 14.350. Did a second vault as well AKA Cheng timer.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 7:08 p.m.

Myli Lew UB: Stalder 1/1 to Maloney to Pak salto to stalder. Chow to Gienger. Beautiful piked Jaeger. Stunning double layout – legs are GLUED. 13.900.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 7:02 p.m.

Joscelyn Roberson UB: Clear hip half to Ezhova. Clear hip 1/1. Maloney to Pak salto. Toe shoot. Clear hip. Nearly sticks the double layout but takes a small hop forward. 11.800.

Jade Carey BB: Carey fell on beam. Didn’t see what skill. 12.150.

Tiana Sumanasekera went before Roberson and came off on her stalder 1/1. 11.550.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 6:59 p.m.

Leanne Wong FX: Little stumble on her opening wolf turn. BIG tucked double-double, hop back. Double layout landing is weird, bit deep in the knees, big step back and OOB. Half to front full, small hop forward. 13.350.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 6:54 p.m.

Top scores from Rotation 3:

• VT: Simone Biles = 15.700
• UB: Alicia Zhou = 13.800
• BB: Leanne Wong = 13.750
• FX: Kaliya Lincoln = 14.350

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 6:52 p.m.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 6:51 p.m.

Kayla DiCello FX: After some music issues, we can get going. Good double-double, small hop forward. Triple wolf turn is good. 1.5 to front full, very nice. Great leaps. Double pike, hop back. Good routine from DiCello!

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 6:47 p.m.

Skye Blakely FX: First floor routine since 2022 worlds qualifications. Double-double, single step. Double layout, hop back but stays in bounds. Double wolf turn. Switch ring is good. Second leap is a bit low. Punch front through to double back, a bit under-rotated, stumbles forward but stays on her feet. Looked much better than podium training.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 6:40 p.m.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 6:38 p.m.

Dulcy Caylor VT: Clean DTY, step back. 13.900

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 6:35 p.m.

Second half touch for Rotation 3 happening now.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 6:30 p.m.

Leanne Wong BB: Side aerial to switch leap to wolf jump 1/1. Great flight series. L turn to full turn. Switch ring. Side somi. Front aerial to split jump to straddle jump. 2.5 twist, large hop forward. 13.750.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 6:27 p.m.

Joscelyn Roberson VT 1: We’re seeing a trend of lower energy and under-rotated Chengs from Roberson in podium training, just for her to use the adrenaline or whatever other magic and lay down excellent ones in competition. Still might been the slightest bit under-rotated, but very powerful nonetheless. 14.650.

VT 2: Double-twisting Yurchenko, small hop back.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 6:25 p.m.

Biles follows with a beautiful Cheng. Makes it look easy. Great distance, big hop back. And Laurent acted like it wasn’t even on their minds a couple days ago. Lol.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 6:22 p.m.

HUGE Yurchenko double pike from Simone Biles! Just a smallll step. And the crowd is still cheering as she walks down the podium for her second vault. And yes, Laurent was on the podium for that. 15.700 after the -0.5 ND for Laurent being there. 9.800 execution.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 6:21 p.m.

Beautiful double-twisting Yurchenko from Jordan Chiles on vault. 14.300.

Meanwhile, over on beam, Shilese Jones starts strong before missing the jump connection on her standing Arabian. Touches the beam on her two-footed layout series. Great double pike dismount. 13.450.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 6:19 p.m.

At the halfway mark, Shilese Jones and Simone Biles are tied for first with matching 29.250s.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 6:13 p.m.

Top scores from Rotation 2:

• VT: Jade Carey = 13.950
• UB: Shilese Jones = 14.900
• BB: Skye Blakely = 14.050
• FX: Simone Biles = 14.800

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 6:10 p.m.

Dulcy Caylor FX: Full-in, basically stuck. Double pike, hop back and OOB. Double Y-turn. 1.5 to front full to arabesque, OOB. Double wolf turn. Double back, small hop. 12.900.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 6:05 p.m.

Tiana Sumanasekera FX: BIG double layout, hop back. Double wolf turn. Beautiful stuck double back. Clean third pass. Double pike, step back. 13.150.

Jade Carey VT 1: Cheng is super low. Don’t know if she put hands down because of the monitor. 13.950.

Jade Carey VT 2: Double-twisting Yurchenko much better.

Leanne Wong UB: Floated through that set. Stuck double layout. She’s really improved her execution on the event, especially since college. 14.000.

Joscelyn Roberson FX: HUGE laid-out double-double. Small hop. Flairs out the full-twisting double layout. Stunning triple wolf turn. She’s just so precise and powerful. Getting the crowd into it. OOB on front full through to double back. Front lay through to double pike, clean. 13.300. -0.2 in ND from OOB.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 5:56 p.m.

Simone Biles FX: Full-twisting double layout, clean, small hop. Front full through to full-twisting double back. Double wolf turn. Out of bounds on the Biles 1. She also axed the stag out of it, from what we’ve seen this week. Double layout, small hop. 14.800.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 5:53 p.m.

Kaliya Lincoln BB: Double wolf turn. BHS to two-footed layout is perfect. Front aerial, knees looked soft, to split jump to straddle jump. Switch leap and breaks the connection on the switch half. Side aerial. Huge double pike, so much power. 13.250.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 5:51 p.m.

Jordan Chiles FX: This is Jordan’s floor debut for the year. She didn’t do floor at the Classic. 1.5 through to full-twisting double back, clean. Big double layout, hop back. Double back. Double pike, small hop forward. 13.100.

Shilese Jones UB: BIG set from Shi. Looked like she connected everything she wanted to connect and stuck the double front to a massive applause. 14.900.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 5:48 p.m.

Suni Lee with a clean full-twisting Yurchenko. Hop back. Reminder that she’s not anywhere near full difficulty right now because of her ongoing kidney-related health issue. 13.350.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 5:47 p.m.

Looked Like Zoe Miller put hands down when she stumbled forward on her double back at the end of her floor routine. 11.800.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 5:46 p.m.

Skye Blakely goes 14.050 on beam. Had a bit of a stumble on her wolf turn and then there were little minor errors peppered throughout. 7.950 E-score. But when she did hit, it was basically perfect.

Nola Matthews was swinging a good set, but missed the catch on her Van Leeuwen. 12.400.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 5:37 p.m.

Top scores from Rotation 1:

• VT: Shilese Jones = 14.350
• UB: Skye Blakely = 14.400
• BB: Simone Biles = 14.450
• FX: Jade Carey & Amelia Disidore = 13.350

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 5:35 p.m.

Madray Johnson UB: Stalder 1/1, bit short, to Maloney to Pak salto. Van Leeuwen. Toe 1/2 to Straddled Jaeger. Big double back, step back. 12.900.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 5:33 p.m.

Tiana Sumanasekera BB: Candle mount. BHS BHS to two-footed layout, super confident. Front aerial to split jump to swing down. Switch leap to switch half, looked good. Ring jump on the other hand looked a bit rough. Side aerial jump series. Full turn. Double pike dismount, just a single step. 13.850.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 5:30 p.m.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 5:28 p.m.

Simone Biles BB: Switch leap, and she stumbles on the landing, breaks the connection. Regroups and hits the switch leap to switch half to back pike. Triple wolf turn is rough on the third rotation specifically, gets it around though. Front aerial to split jump to straddle jump. BHS LOSO LOSO is clean. Side aerial. Settling in now. Great full-twisting double back dismount. 14.450.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 5:25 p.m.

Jordan Chiles BB: Perfect BHS LOSO LOSO Front aerial to straddle jump to BHS. Full turn. Side somi, solid. Switch leap, think she missed the switch half connection. Just axes it and goes straight to the next. Switch straddle 1/4. Double back, hop back. 13.000.

Shilese Jones’ double-twisting Yurchenko never gets old. So well done. So fast. So powerful. One of the best in the world. 14.350.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 5:18 p.m.

Zoe Miller BB: Full turn. BHS LOSO LOSO. Front aerial to split jump to back tuck, excellent. Switch leap to switch half, very low. Side aerial. Hop 1/1. Double pike dismount, slightly low chest, step forward. Overall very clean from Zoe. 13.050.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 5:14 p.m.

Kayla DiCello UB: Going for the toe 1/1. Only gets halfway, rhythm is off and she comes off. Restarts and does it correctly. Close catch on her piked Jaeger. Better on her piked Tkatchev. Floaty Pak salto. Great lift on her Van Leeuwen. Full-twisting double back. 12.300.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 5:10 p.m.

Michelle Pineda VT: Clean Y1.5. Little step forward, seemed to get a bit ahead of herself but still a clean vault. 13.550.

Charlotte Booth FX: FHS double full, uncontrolled steps forward. 2.5 twist and she takes a huge uncontrolled step forward but keeps her self from falling. Charlotte’s music is so powerful. Double back, clean to close. 12.500.

Skye Blakely UB: Stalder 1/2 to piked Jaeger. Stalder to piked Tkatchev to Pak salto. Toe 1/1 to Van Leeuwen. Double front half, just a small hop back. 14.400.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 5:06 p.m.

Leanne Wong VT: Beautiful double-twisting Yurchenko. 14.250. Did a clean second vault as well.

Joscelyn Roberson BB: Beautiful standing full. Side aerial LOSO LOSO. Onodi, bit of a balance check. STUCK double pike. Good set besides that check. 13.200. Got a 7.200 execution score.

Jade Carey FX: BIG laid-out double-double, stuck. Tucked double-double, nearly stuck. Front layout through to double pike, very clean. Jade bringing her A-game. Double back is short, low chest, step forward – only major mistake of the routine. What a treat to start with the reigning Olympic floor champion! 13.350.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 5:00 p.m.

First rotation touch warmup happening now!

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 4:57 p.m.

Intros starting here in a moment. Let’s go ahead and look at Rotation 1 routines to watch:

• VT: Leanne Wong, Shilese Jones
• UB: Skye Blakely, Kayla DiCello, Kaliya Lincoln, Madray Johnson
• BB: Joscelyn Roberson, Zoe Miller, Jordan Chiles, Simone Biles, Tiana Sumanasekera
• FX: Jade Carey, Amelia Disidore

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 4:49 p.m.

Intros starting here in a moment. Let’s go ahead and look at Rotation 1 routines to watch:

• VT: Leanne Wong, Shilese Jones
• UB: Skye Blakely, Kayla DiCello, Kaliya Lincoln, Madray Johnson
• BB: Joscelyn Roberson, Zoe Miller, Jordan Chiles, Simone Biles, Tiana Sumanasekera
• FX: Jade Carey, Amelia Disidore

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 4:34 p.m.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 4:34 p.m.

Some updates from warmups:

Simone Biles warmed up a Cheng – first time we’ve seen that since Tokyo. Laurent Landi told us it would be the second vault a couple days ago, but he acted like it wasn’t ready yet. But Simone is Simone, so that’s about all you need to know on that.

Meanwhile, Elle Mueller scratched after needing medical help on floor.

Fri. Aug. 25 @ 4:30 p.m.

Welcome to Senior Women Day 1 at the 2023 Xfinity U.S. Gymnastics Championships! We’ll get started soon. Watch live on NBC’s Peacock or YouTube (international). Live scores here.