Suni Lee CONFIRMS Comeback! US Classic Podium Training Reactions + Ohashi Upgrades

Suni Lee officially confirmed she’s making another Olympic comeback, and we watched every routine from Senior Women’s podium training at the 2026 U.S. Classic. To listen to the extra 45 minutes login or join Club Gym Nerd for the extended Behind The Scenes episode every Friday: https://gymcastic.com/club/ 📺 HOW TO FOLLOW THE 2026 U.S. CLASSIC 📅 Friday, July 17 • Senior Women’s Podium Training 🕑 2:00 PM ET on FlipNow 📅 Saturday, July 18 • Junior Women — 2:00 PM ET USAG Youtube • Senior Women — 7:00 PM ET on Peacock/NBC 🎙️ LIVE AFTER CLASSIC - Live post-meet podcast ~ 6:30 PST/9:30 ET Become a member: https://gymcastic.com/club/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 00:00 Welcome, Hot Mics & US Classic Podium Training 00:52 Suni Lee Officially Announces Her Comeback 03:08 Should Single Event Specialists Have a Pathway to Championships? 06:28 Katelyn Ohashi’s Upgraded Floor Routine 10:00 Katelyn Ohashi’s Beam Changes & Strategy 14:00 Lost Luggage, AARP & Elite Warm-Up Rituals 15:10 Skye Blakely’s Beam Upgrade 17:22 Leanne Wong’s New Beam Composition 21:15 Beam Connection Bonus Explained 21:56 More Leanne Wong Routine Nerding 23:01 Fantasy Game, Elite Score Explorer & Roster Lab Updates 24:55 Store Sale, Referral Program & Bluesky Groups BONUS FOR CLUB MEMBERS BEGINS To listen to the full episode login or join Club Gym Nerd for the extended Behind The Scenes episode every Friday: https://gymcastic.com/club/ 25:00 Beam Bonus Bungle Story 26:28 Final Thoughts on Leanne’s Beam 28:59 Jade Carey Wins Podium Training 30:02 Jade’s Upgrades & Event-by-Event Review 31:55 Izzy Stasi’s Oklahoma Era & New Choreography 34:10 Zoe Molomo, Simone Rose & Dulcy Caylor Notes 36:45 Comedy Awards, Hot Mic Moments & Withdrawals 37:08 Club Gym Nerd Q&A Begins 38:00 Single-Event Qualification to Nationals Debate 43:02 Should Nationals Matter More Than Worlds Selection? 50:58 Who Was Terrible at Compulsories? 53:31 The Most Memorable Compulsory Disasters 56:40 Are Olympic Comebacks About Passion or Business? 01:01:39 Spencer’s Dream Suni Lee Bars Routine 01:05:08 The Perfect Acting Role for Laurie Hernandez 01:05:58 Is Elite Gymnastics Inherently Bad for Kids? 01:08:43 Can You Reach Elite Without Early Specialization? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎮 PLAY THE 2026 U.S. CLASSIC FANTASY GAME 🏆 Build your team: https://gymcastic.com/2026-u-s-classi... 📊 Use the Elite Score Explorer to scout your lineup: https://gymcastic.com/elite-scores/ ⏰ Lineups lock Saturday at 6:45 PM Eastern! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❤️ SUPPORT OUR WORK 💜 Club Gym Nerd https://gymcastic.com/club/ 🛍️ Shop GymCastic https://store.gymcastic.com/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧰 GYMCASTIC TOOLS 🇺🇸 LA 2028 Roster Lab https://gymcastic.com/2028-roster-lab/ 📊 Elite Score Explorer https://gymcastic.com/elite-scores/ 📅 International Gymnastics Calendar https://gymcastic.com/gymnastics-cale... 🎮 Games https://gymcastic.com/games/ 📧 Newsletters https://gymcastic.com/gymcastic-newsl... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 MORE GYMNASTICS RESOURCES 📖 The Balance Beam Situation https://balancebeamsituation.com/ 📜 Gymnastics History & Code of Points Archive https://www.gymnastics-history.com/ ✊ Resistance Resources https://gymcastic.com/resistance-reso... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 RELATED EPISODES 💙 Becky Downie: Paris Trauma, Fibroids & Changing British Gymnastics https://gymcastic.com/becky-downie-pa... 🎙️ Behind the Scenes: Ohashi Is Back https://gymcastic.com/behind-the-scen... 🌍 Behind the Scenes: World Cup of Ohashi https://gymcastic.com/behind-the-scen... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👍 If you love gymnastics, subscribe, like, and turn on notifications so you never miss an episode from the Number One Gymnastics Podcast in the Galaxy. Cover art and photographs © GymCastic / Steve Cooper. All rights reserved.