{"id":1140199,"date":"2026-08-09T19:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T19:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1140199\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T19:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T19:19:16","slug":"where-to-watch-the-usa-womens-gymnastics-championships-for-free-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1140199\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to watch the USA women\u2019s gymnastics championships for free today"},"content":{"rendered":"

The final day of the U.S. women\u2019s gymnastics championships will air Sunday at 6 p.m. ET<\/a>. The broadcast will showcase the senior women, which consists of 20 gymnasts from the United States. <\/p>\n

The USA women\u2019s gymnastics championships will air on NBC, and streams on <\/b>DIRECTV (free trial)<\/b><\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what you need to know:<\/b><\/p>\n

What:<\/b> Xfinity U.S. women\u2019s gymnastics championships<\/p>\n

When: <\/b>Sunday, Aug. 9, 2026<\/p>\n

Time:<\/b> 6 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

Where:<\/b> Mortgage Matchup Center, Phoenix, Arizona<\/p>\n

TV:<\/b> NBC<\/p>\n

Live stream:<\/b> DIRECTV (free trial)<\/a>, Peacock<\/a><\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s a recent gymnastics story from the Associated Press:<\/b><\/p>\n

PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Jade Carey doesn\u2019t need to be at the U.S. gymnastics championships. At least, not like this.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s part of what makes it all so sweet.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old knows she could have walked away following her final season at Oregon State in the spring of 2025, with a resume stuffed with Olympic and world championship medals and her place in the history of the storied U.S. women\u2019s program secure.<\/p>\n

She tried, kind of. The athlete who had been going nonstop for the better part of 20 years gave her body a bit of a break after her NCAA career ended. It lasted a handful of weeks.<\/p>\n

Then one day, she popped into the gym and, in the words of her father and longtime coach Brian, \u201cstarted playing again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Emphasis on \u201cplaying.\u201d<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s anything the two-time Olympic gold medalist has learned, it\u2019s that taking this too seriously can quickly rob you of the joy that brought you to it in the first place.<\/p>\n

Asked if she feels the weight of living up to the standard she\u2019s set for herself as the Phoenix native prepares to salute the judges at the national championships for a seventh time when the women\u2019s competition begins at Mortgage Matchup Center, Carey shrugs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just feel like right now I have one more opportunity to just have fun with it,\u201d she said. \u201cNo expectations, no pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maturing means understanding who she was in 2021 is not who she is in 2026. There have been times she\u2019ll randomly come across a video of her gold medal-winning floor exercise routine at the Tokyo Olympics five years ago and think \u201cthat was pretty hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whether she can get back to that level as she makes a bid for a third trip to the Olympics is anyone\u2019s guess, Carey\u2019s included. Her body has held up remarkably well through the years, thanks in large part to the pragmatic approach she and Brian Carey have taken toward her training.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if that\u2019s coming back,\u201d she said. \u201cBut you never know. And I feel like training, getting back into it this year, was really hard. But I\u2019ve kind of hit my stride, and it\u2019s getting a little easier and feeling a little more familiar.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sticking with the plan<\/p>\n

Carey finished second in the all-around to 17-year-old Reese Esponda at the U.S. Classic a few weeks ago in her first elite competition since leaving the 2024 Paris Games with a pair of Olympic medals. She did it with routines that are designed to serve as a foundation as she methodically builds toward the summer of 2028.<\/p>\n

The plan is to add difficulty as she goes along, but only when she\u2019s ready. In her mid-20s, Carey is not the same gymnast who took a circuitous path to the Tokyo Olympics that ended with the floor routine of a lifetime and the most precious of medals around her neck.<\/p>\n

The amount of time she spends in the gym on a given day depends on how she\u2019s feeling. She and her father have an understanding that as long as she hits her numbers \u2014 meaning, how many times she works on an assignment \u2014 it doesn\u2019t matter how long she\u2019s there.<\/p>\n

Some days she can knock it out in three hours. Some days, it\u2019s more like eight. On the days she\u2019s not feeling it at all, they\u2019ll work on a plan that spreads the workload out over a longer period of time, though that remains a rarity.<\/p>\n

\u201cNormally, it\u2019s like she\u2019s so fine-tuned with her skill, she just gets up and knocks it out,\u201d Brian Carey said.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s kind of what she does. What\u2019s perhaps the most remarkable thing about Carey\u2019s career is the way she simply keeps going. While some of her Olympic teammates have opted to take time off and recover after a triumphant performance \u2014 Tokyo Olympic champion Suni Lee announced last month she is preparing for a return after a two-year hiatus \u2014 Carey largely has not.<\/p>\n

The internal desire to excel still burns bright<\/p>\n

Her father credits an internal \u201cfire\u201d that doesn\u2019t need much to be stoked. He ordered her to take a vacation after her senior year at Oregon State. It lasted a month. There was never any formal discussion about pushing toward the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. It just sort of happened.<\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t mean slipping back into her routine was easy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI could tell my body was like, \u2018What are you doing? You haven\u2019t gone upside down in a while, like we don\u2019t do this anymore,\u2019\u201d she said with a laugh. \u201cBut I\u2019m like, \u2018No, we\u2019re going to, trust me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

She\u2019s well aware some of the skills she once mastered may never come back, so she\u2019ll need to evolve. That could mean opting for slightly easier (at least by gymnastics standards) elements and combinations, hoping to make up for in execution what she might lack in difficulty.<\/p>\n

Brian Carey\u2019s job is to make sure she isn\u2019t in a rush to find out. Sometimes he still has to tell his daughter to \u201cpump the brakes a little bit.\u201d There are days when Carey feels she\u2019s ahead of schedule. That doesn\u2019t mean the schedule is going to be adjusted. The short-term goal is to build toward earning a spot on the world championship team in October.<\/p>\n

Yes, she understands the prospect of competing in a home Olympics is out there in the ether. And sure, it played a factor in her decision to give it a shot. The reality is, she probably would be here anyway, no matter if the Olympics were in Los Angeles or London or somebody\u2019s backyard.<\/p>\n

The fire inside continues to burn brightly. She learned to respect it long ago. She has the rest of her life to not do gymnastics. Why douse the flames before she\u2019s ready?<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve done so much that I just, I don\u2019t know,\u201d she said. \u201cI just want to do this round again for fun and see how far I can push myself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The final day of the U.S. women\u2019s gymnastics championships will air Sunday at 6 p.m. ET. The broadcast…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1140200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5311],"tags":[20305,310059,310060,920,19438,7126,310061,93208,310062,202196,79,55876,304735,310063,49,978,659,310064],"class_list":["post-1140199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-2024-paris-olympic-games","tag-2024-summer-olympic-games","tag-2024-summer-olympic-gamessummer-olympic-gamesolympic-gamesspo","tag-events","tag-olympic-games","tag-olympics","tag-olympics-2024","tag-paris-olympics","tag-paris-summer-olympics","tag-spo","tag-sports","tag-summer-games","tag-summer-olympic-games","tag-summer-olympics-2024","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-xxxiii-olympiad"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117067172437772009","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1140200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}