Tweet After Great Britain’s Men’s team secured their place at the London 2012 Olympics Daniel Keatings described the qualifying competition as a very emotional event. The crowd roared as Team GB secured their place, 7 marks higher than France in second place, and the gymnasts could finally breath a sigh of relief having spent long days in the gym in Lilleshall over the Christmas period.
It was amazing, especially the support from the home crowd. We had to pull together as a team after Tokyo and over the Christmas period, which …

Tweet The semi state electricity company Electric Ireland has been named as the Official Energy Partner to Ireland’s Olympic Teamm. Last Monday, January 9th marked 200 days to the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games. To celebrate Electric Ireland’s sponsorship of Ireland’s Olympics Team, Countdown Clocks were installed at the ESB Head office on Lower Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin and also at the Electric Ireland Offices in Swift Square, Santry Co. Dublin.

At the official announcement back in September, CEO Padraig McManus said:
“ESB have a long tradition supporting sport in this …

Tweet The American multi-national corporation Proctor and Gamble (P&G) are set to partner with 2010 World Vault Champion Alicia Sacramone to promote their beauty range.  Her involvement is in addition to P&G’s partnership with USA Gymnastics and its global marketing partnership with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in support of the Olympic Movement, which will reach through the next five Olympic Games from London 2012 through the 2020 Olympic Games.

Group President of  P&G Beauty,Gina Drosos explains the reason behind choosing Sacramone:
“Our goal is to inspire young women with the message that when …

Tweet I’m continuing to love this series of drawings from the World Championships Facebook page.

Tweet A fantastic promo video for the MAG European Championships due to be held in Montpellier, France this coming May.Watch it below or on YouTube:

If anyone can translate, please do so! Full Twist hopes to make the MAG European’s this year.

Tweet Less than 4 months after receiving surgery for torn foot ligament, USA’s Jonathan Horton, World High Bar Silver medallist will return to competition at the annual Winter Challenger Cup in Las Vegas next month. Scheduled for February 2nd to 4th, Horton intends to only compete on Rings and Pommel Horse. He will choose not to dismount on Rings to save his foot, which currently still has screws in place.  It may sound odd, but he has his reasons. Ireland’s Kieran Behan did the same at the 2010 World Championships, …

Tweet In October 2011, British Gymnastics dealt with the major blow to their Olympic Dream when the Men’s Artistic Team failed to qualify for the Games through the first qualification process. Luckily the team, who had a second chance, secured their place in style last week at the London 2012 Test Event, scoring 7 points higher than second place France. Today it was the turn of the British Rhythmic Team.
Unfortunately, the team failed to meet the bench mark, thus not securing a place at the Games in August for …

Tweet Back in September we introduced Louise Giblin to the readers of Full Twist. Louise is a British sculptor working in the UK. She has made sculptures of many people from different backgrounds including musicians, medics, businesspeople, sportspeople, fitness instructors, artists, designers, lawyers. Her sculptures are produced in clay, fired, then cast in bronze, translucent resin or cold cast metals.
In July last year, Louise launched her Olympian Series, which features five major British Olympic representatives being body cast for sculpted pieces relating to their physical power and personal triumph. Sally Gunnell, Paralympian quadruple …

Tweet On Thursday night Chile’s  Enrique Tomas Gonzalez Sepulveda  claimed the gold medal at the London 2012 Test Event Floor Final. Tying with Great Britain’s Daniel Purvis, Gonzalez picked up the gold medal with a top score of 15.466,  edging Ireland’s newest Olympian Kieran Behan out of the medals. Gonzalez showed that he is seriously in contention for an Olympic medal, he previously ranked 6th in the 2011 World Championships Floor final and placed 15th in the All Around at the 2010 Worlds.

Gonzalez has secured himself an Olympic spot, placing …

Tweet I saw esteemed FIG photographer Eileen Langlsey around the arena a lot last week. Langsley is fantastic photographer, she really captures great images during gymnastics events especially. Langsley was working at the Test Event last week in preparation for her 13th Olympic Games. Yesterday she took to her blog to post some images of the British Men’s gymnastics team during their qualification competition. She discusses how it was to work in the North Greenwich Arena itself:
Photographically this has been a challenging – and somewhat disappointing – event to cover. …

Tweet After a fantastic competition in London at the 2012 Olympic Test Event, it has now been decided who take up the remaining Olympic spots in both the Team competition and Individual spots. See below for details:

Complete List of MAG Teams competing at London 2012 Summer Olympic Games:

Japan
USA
China
Germany
Russia
Korea
Romania
Ukraine
Great Britain
France
Spain
Italy

Complete List of WAG Teams competing at London 2012 Summer Olympic Games:

USA
Russia
China
Romania
Japan
Australia
Germany
Great Britain
Italy
Canada
France
Brazil

Complete List of MAG & WAG Individuals qualified to London 2012 Summer Olympic Games:

To understand how the above have qualified or why two gymnasts might be listed as competing for …

Tweet I am shocked to hear this news this morning. Our beautiful 2010 World Beam Champion has announced her retirement from the sport of gymnastics, just aged 18 years old. Ana had a tough year this year, not making the beam finals at Worlds must have been the final moment for her before confirming her decision to retire as well as an unfortunate series of injuries.

Many fans will be shocked and saddened by this news.  You can read the Google Translated version of the Pro Sport article here. We will await official …

Tweet Just before Christmas it was announced that french star and  2010 World Vault Champion Thomas Bouhail suffered an injury whilst training for the London 2012 Test Event. Bouhail is said to have suffered a bad fracture to his tibia – fibula in training, the injury required surgery and will require a lot of physiotherapy and rehabilitation.

It has emerged this week however, via his official website, that he will not take part in the London 2012 Olympics with his team. Both the MAG and WAG French teams qualified for London …

Tweet Another illustration by the Japanese, this time of Viktoria Komova’s 2011 Worlds Bar routine

Tweet The Artistic Gymnastics London 2012 Test Event concluded tonight with the Men’s High Bar, Parallel Bar and Vault final as well as the Women’s Floor and Balance Beam final. There was some really tough competition, especially in the Men’s Vault and Women’s Floor final. Today however was not World Beam Champion Sui Lu’s day, falls off and on beam helped her score a low. Videos are currently being uploaded to the Full Twist YouTube Channel.
Women’s Floor
1. Vanessa Ferrari 14.400
2. Victoria Moors 14.200
3. Daiane dos Santos 14.066
3. Marine Brevet 14.066
5. …