Daiki Hashimoto won his fourth straight world all-around title at the 2026 World Championships in Rotterdam, by almost two points, with Yang Haonan of China in silver and Joe Fraser taking bronze, only Great Britain's third men's all-around medal at Worlds. Top qualifier and Olympic champion Shinnosuke Oka fell twice and still finished eighth, Arsenii Dukhno's medal run ended on high bar, and Illia Kovtun fell twice. Plus breaking news: former Stanford gymnast Kaien J-Spencer is suing Stanford, alleging his former head coach Thom Glielmi degraded and humiliated him, and the women's code that got updated in the middle of Worlds. Our sleep-deprived reactions from inside Rotterdam Ahoy.
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Chapters
00:00 Welcome to the men's all-around final
01:14 Daiki Hashimoto wins a fourth straight world all-around title
02:09 Ex-Stanford gymnast sues over his former coach
04:25 The women's code gets updated during Worlds
06:14 Shinnosuke Oka's two falls
08:06 Illia Kovtun and four all-arounds in a row
09:02 Joe Fraser's Red Bull
09:42 Arsenii Dukhno's high bar fall
10:33 Noe Seifert's podium warm-up
11:23 Frederick Richard's not-so-secret girlfriend
12:13 Yang Haonan's silver
13:28 Joe Fraser's bronze and the baby celebration
17:30 Opportunity for comedy: frog on the windshield
18:27 Best moment: Camilo Vera goes for the Liukin twice
20:29 Join Club Gym Nerd and GymCastic Live
22:31 Club preview: the Uber driver's conspiracy theory
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