"Prices are too high"- Simone Biles' former coach Cecile Landi enlists reasons for poor turnout in women's finals at U.S. Gymnastics Championships

Simone Biles' former coach, Cecile Landi, expressed her thoughts on the poor turnout in the 2025 women's senior national gymnastics final. The highly accomplished shared that multiple aspects, like high prices, lack of publicity, and other factors, might have effectively contributed to a partially filled stadium during such a major national event featuring some of the best gymnasts in the country.

The 2025 Xfinity U.S. Gymnastics Championships featured Hezly Rivera, Joscelyn Roberson, Dulcy Caylor, Skye Blakely, and Leanne Wong, among other top gymnasts of the country. Hezly Rivera emerged as the national champion, dominating in the all-around, uneven bars, balance beam, and floor routine. After the conclusion of the event, the US women's senior National Team was announced, and the gymnasts who made it to the list included Skye Blakely, Dulcy Caylor, Jayla Hang, Gabrielle Hardie, Claire Pease, Hezly Rivera, Joscelyn Roberson, Simone Rose, Ashlee Sullivan, Tiana Sumanasekera, and Leanne Wong.

Despite the event raising great anticipation on social media, the stadium witnessed a poor turnout, and fans took to social media to express their thoughts on the lack of support at such a major event. Scott Bregman, who had attended every US National Gymnastics Championship since 2003, expressed his thoughts and wrote:

"I’ve been to every US Championships since 2003. Hard to think of one with a worse attended senior women’s final."

Scott Bregman

@sbregman87

I’ve been to every US Championships since 2003. Hard to think of one with a worse attended senior women’s final…

Simone Biles' former coach, Cecile Landi, shared her thoughts about the poor turnout and expressed that multiple factors, like exorbitant ticket prices, not enough publicity, and lack of active involvement of clubs, might have resulted in the outcome.

Moreover, Cecile Landi expressed that having both men and women compete on the same day could help the event become more entertaining.

"Prices are too high, not enough publicity, clubs near aren’t involved enough…. I think if the men and women would compete at the same time it would make it more entertaining as well!" she wrote.

Cecile Landi

@CLcecile

@sbregman87 😔 prices are too high, not enough publicity, clubs near aren’t involved enough…. I think if the men and women would compete at the same time it would make it more entertaining as well!

Cecile Landi opens up on taking a new role as an NCAA gymnastics coach

Cecile Landi at the 2024 Sumer Olympics - Day 10 - Source: Getty

Cecile Landi made a major career decision to leave the World Champions Centre in Spring, Texas, and join the Georgia GymDogs as the co-head coach. She spoke about making a transition from coaching pro athletes to NCAA gymnasts this year in an official interview with the university.

Landi expressed that the transition was smooth for her, and the only thing that has changed for her is the number of meetings that she has to attend.

"It's been good. I mean, the coaching is the coaching at the end, gymnastics is gymnastics. So, yeah, it's all the meetings that have been a change for me," she said.

Lanid hoped to take the Georgia Gymnastics program to greater heights as the NCAA season is set to kick off in a few months.