Joscelyn Roberson started off the 2025 Xfinity US Championships good. In rotation two, Roberson hit bars, her weakest event, with a stuck full-twisting double layout, earning a 13.650 to tie for the lead on that event. Apart from a few minor mistakes, she was steady on beam, earning a 13.800, and finished the night on floor, where she scored a 14.150. She led the event after adding a full-twisting double layout as her third pass, boosting her D-score to an impressive 6. But there was a precaution.

During warmups, Roberson and coach Chris Brooks decided she would only perform the double-twisting Yurchenko (scoring 13.800), dropping the challenging Cheng vault to focus on a clean floor routine and to “save [her] ankles.” Emphasis on saving her ankles because Day 2 revealed a bigger pictu

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