Tweet Irish MAG gymnasts Rohan Sebastian, Kieran Behan and Luke Carson began Podium Training today. Rick from Gymnastics Coaching has been keeping a close eye on the boys for us where the guys plans were to go through their routines cleanly and quickly. He chatted to briefly to Luke and Kieran before the session. They were up on floor first, Behan receiving only minor deductions and one out of bounds, overall Rick called it a “very clean”. Blythe from the Gymnastics Examiner describes it as
7:48 p.m.: Ireland’s Kieran Behan does a nice …

Tweet A quick look at the arena from photos the FIG has posted on Facebook.

Via Gymnastics Examiner  -view from the media gallery
Via Inside Gymnastics

Tweet Today was officially the second day of podium training for the gymnasts in Tokyo. Training began early at 8am and lasted right through until 9.30pm. Podium training is like a rehearsal before the real thing, the gymnasts got used to the feeling of the equipment and their surroundings and debuted their new leotards.
The big news today was the announcement that USA’s Anna Li has been named as team alternate after suffering a abdominal muscle strain. Anna also posted about the injury on her blog.  Hopefully everyone else stays healthy, otherwise Shawn Johnson …

Tweet Rumours were rife today that Romania’s Catalina Ponor had become injured during training this morning after it was seen that she was receiving medical attention from team docotors.  Luckily the Romanian Gymnastics Federation has called the issue in training this morning a “false alarm”. Phew!

Tweet Anne from Gymnastike reports that Romania’s Catalina Ponor may be injured;
I walked into the Romanian’s training session to find the girls training beam as usual, but Catalina Ponor was off to the side getting her ankle/foot checked out by team trainers. She left the training session armed with an ice bag and a team trainer by her side and spoke with meet officials and what must be the on-site trainer. It does not appear to be serious as she was able to walk out of the arena without a limp. 
A few …

Tweet Martha Karolyi and the National Team staff have confirmed the alternate for the USA WAG Team in Tokyo. Anna Li has suffered an abdominal strain and so has been named as the alternate.

Since the Worlds team was named 2 weeks ago, it was always said that bringing Li to Tokyo was a risk, despite her massive scoring potential on bars.  Perhaps Li was brought knowing she had an injury and it was a possibility she might have to withdraw, in that case Gabby Douglas would definitely be needed to …

Tweet Today is officially the second day of training for the gymnasts in Tokyo. See below for the training schedule, click the image to enlarge. It’s an early start for some of the big teams MAG Great Britain, Spain, Canada, USA and Japan and also for the WAG Russia, Switzerland and Australia.
Make sure to keep an eye on The Couch Gymnast, Gymnastike, Gymnastics Coaching and Gymnastics Examiner for coverage. Details of how to follow them are available in Full Twists Complete Guide: World Gymnastics Championships 2011 Schedule & Coverage

Tweet Gymnastike is doing a fantastic job so far of recording and uploading videos from the training halls in Tokyo. 80′sgymfan from the IG Forum has made a page featuring all of the videos to surface so far in the one place. Thanks 80′sgymfan!

Tweet The German MAG Team has been finalised by Head Coach Andreas Hirsch. Philipp Boy, Marcel Nguyen, Fabian Hambüchen, Eugen Spiridonov, Sebastian Krimme and now Andreas Toba. They will join their WAG team mates of:

Kim Bui
Oksana Chusovitina
Nadine Jarosch
Elisabeth Seitz
Pia Tolle

Via dpa report

Tweet The delegation from Ireland has arrived in Tokyo and have begun to work hard. The girls Charlotte McKenna and Sophie McCoo  began training today with their coaches Alison McMullan and Sun Jei.  This will be Sophie’s first worlds whilst McKenna will return to Worlds after last competing in Tokyo in 2010.

Image via Abbey Gymnastics Centre on Facebook
The MAG team of three have also commenced training. Luke Carson hopes to improve on last years Worlds performance where he placed 95th in the AA qualifications competition in Rotterdam, he also ranked …

Tweet All of the ladies (and Rick) were out in force again today bringing us the latest news from Tokyo.

The USA girls skipped their first training session this morning - probably best as it looks like they had a very full on session yesterday, no harm in giving their bodies some rest, they’re in great form
All reports are saying that the Australian girls were looking very good in training. Brigid has a short report and some photos.

The FIG began to roll out some new articles on the Tokyo 2011 microsite.

* Australian Squad relies on Mitchell
* Canada …

Tweet The Netherlands Bart Deurloo has failed to recover from an ongoing hand injury and has been forced to withdraw from the World Championships. The 20 year old will be replaced with Carlo Van Minde. The Dutch MAG World Champions team now stands as:

Epke Zonderland
Jeffrey Wammes
Yuri vanGelder
Michel Bletterman
Arjen Butter
Anthony van Assche
Carlo van Minde

Information via GymPower

Tweet Anne Phillips from Gymnastike really has done an amazing job so far recording videos at the World Championships. As well as uploading over 40 videos, Anne also took time out to share her thoughts from todays training read that here.

For some reason Full Twist can’t embed the Gymnastike videos but we have linked to some of them for you to watch. Thank you Anne for your hard work.
Great Britain
Laura Edwards Floor
Beth Tweddle Floor
Danusia Francis Floor
Jenni Pinches Floor
Beth Tweddle Bars – as Anne says “WOW!!”
Hannah Whelan Bars
Laura Edwards Bars
Imogen Cairns …

Tweet All of the ladies were hard at work today in Tokyo, and by ladies I don’t just mean the gymnasts. Blythe Lawrence (Gymnastics Examiner), Brigid McCarthy (The Couch Gymnast) and Anne Phillips (Gymnastike) have been working very hard today at the women’s training practice. The ladies worked hard together, Blythe live blogging, Brigid taking her beautiful photographs and Anne filming what we all want to see the most!So, what news did the ladies have for us today?

Romania
Blythe didn’t happen to see too much of the Romanians. I’m keen to …

Tweet The All Around has gone to an awful lot of trouble and hard work to predict who may be the Worlds Women’s AA Champion, Team Champions and Event Final Champions.  The All Around has based this on scores collected throughout the year.
With all the scores we have studied three different situations:
Average: We averaged all the scores of the gymnasts, this way we can see their scoring potential and their consistency.
Highest: We took the highest score of each gymnast.
Lowest: We took the lowest score of each gymnast.
As any prediction method, this one has …