A day-by-day take a look at the world gymnastics championships in Antwerp, Belgium (broadcast schedule here) …

Sat., Sept. 30: New-Look U.S. Men Debut
The American males are up on the primary day of qualifying, and they’re with out injured two-time nationwide all-around champion Brody Malone. The high three from August’s nationals had been 19-year-old Asher Hong, 20-year-old Khoi Young and 19-year-old Fred Richard. Yul Moldauer is the lone man on the roster of 5 with Olympic expertise (or a world medal). Qualifying into Tuesday’s eight-team closing — and the Paris Olympics — ought to be no drawback.

Sun., Oct. 1: U.S. Women vs. Themselves
Yet once more, an anticipated competitors in girls’s qualifying ought to be the one throughout the U.S. crew. A nation can qualify not more than two girls into every particular person closing. Simone Biles, who is predicted to debut her Yurchenko double pike vault internationally and get it named after her, ought to take one of many two U.S. all-around spots and will make all 4 equipment finals.

Shilese Jones, final yr’s world silver medalist, is the favourite for the opposite all-around spot, however she might be challenged by a 3rd American to do the all-around in qualifying — Skye Blakely or Leanne Wong.

Mon, Oct. 2: Rebeca Andrade Begins Title Defense
The gymnast to look at on the final day of qualifying is Brazilian Rebeca Andrade, who final yr turned the primary South American man or lady to win a world all-around title. See how her all-around rating stacks as much as Biles’ from Sunday, although these scores are worn out for Friday’s closing.

Tue., Oct. 3: Can U.S. Men Return To Podium? (1:30 p.m. ET, Peacock)
The American males final gained an Olympic or world crew medal in 2014, making this their longest podium drought since 1984 to 2001. While Japan and China are anticipated to go one-two, the bronze seems up for grabs.

Russian gymnasts gained the Tokyo Olympic title, however they’ve been banned from worldwide competitors since shortly after the invasion of Ukraine. Great Britain was third final yr, however seems weak after being outscored by Italy and Turkey at April’s European Championships.

Wed., Oct. 4: U.S. Women Eye Record (1:30 p.m. ET, Peacock)
The American girls ought to be closely favored within the crew closing. The U.S. can grow to be the primary nation to win seven consecutive world crew titles for both gender, breaking its present tie with the Chinese males (2003 by means of 2014). The U.S. girls gained final yr’s title by a snug 3.201 factors (to place that into perspective, a gymnast loses one level for a fall), and that was with out Biles.

Brazil, which didn’t qualify a crew for the Tokyo Olympics, has a shot to win its first crew medal.

Thu., Oct. 5: Japan’s New King (1:30 p.m. ET, Peacock)
Japan’s Daiki Hashimoto, the reigning Olympic and world all-around champion, competes within the absence of Chinese rival Zhang Boheng, who’s on the Asian Games as an alternative.

Two years in the past, Hashimoto turned the primary teenage man to win the Olympic all-around. Last yr, he turned the youngest man to pair a world all-around title with the Olympic gold. This yr, he can grow to be the primary man to repeat as world all-around champion since countryman Kohei Uchimura gained six in a row from 2009 by means of 2015.

Fri., Oct. 6: Simone Biles’ All-Around (1:30 p.m. ET, Peacock)
In August, Biles competed for the primary time in two years and posted the world’s high three all-around scores on this Olympic cycle, according to the Gymternet. That units her as much as go for a sixth world all-around title to match Uchimura’s document. At 26, she will be able to grow to be the oldest lady to win an Olympic or world all-around title since Soviet Larisa Latynina in 1962.

Sat., Oct. 7: Biles Takes Flight (8 a.m. ET, Peacock)
The first of two days of equipment finals consists of girls’s vault and uneven bars. Biles is favored to win her third world title within the former and match China’s Cheng Fei for essentially the most girls’s vault world titles. Jones is the lone returning medalist on uneven bars and may grow to be the primary American to win that title since Madison Kocian was a part of a four-way tie for gold in 2015.

The males’s spotlight might be a pommel horse duel between two-time Olympic gold medalist Max Whitlock of Great Britain and reigning world champion Rhys McClenaghan of Ireland.

Sun., Oct. 8: No. 30 For Biles? (8 a.m. ET, Peacock)
Biles will begin the meet with a document 25 profession world medals. If all goes to plan, she’ll be at 28 going into the final day of the meet (probably 29 if she wins a bars medal). Biles might be in each the stability beam and ground train finals, giving her a shot to succeed in 30 profession medals. Note second place on the profession checklist is Belarusian Vitaly Scherbo, who gained 23.

The U.S. might be represented in every of the eight-man finals: vault (Hong could also be the most effective hope), parallel bars (Moldauer) and excessive bar (Richard).