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Tweet Beth Tweddle’s new book has been released:
What’s it like to be one of Britain’s greatest gymnasts? In this fascinating autobiography, Beth Tweddle takes us through the biggest moments of her life, from winning gold at the World Championships, to being honoured with an MBE at just 25 years old. Follow her story as she prepares for her most important task yet – the Olympics!

Buy “Becoming an Olympic Gymnast” on Amazon.co.uk here. Note that the book is from the new Pearl Band, the highest band in the scheme which helps children …

Tweet Another illustration from the World Gymnastics Championships 2011 official Facebook, this time of World Pommel Horse Champion Krisztian Berki.

Tweet With the Test Event coming up in London next week, the British Press is full of stories about Britain’s top gymnasts.
Star gymnasts from Team GB, Canada and Australia train in Lowestoft.
GB men set for Olympic Gymnastics qualifier at London Test Event.
Keatings is hoping to rock the O2 once again.
Beth Tweddle: my coach is the reason I’m in the running for London 2012 .
London 2012: Lowestoft gym hosts Australian and Canadian hopefuls.
Happy reading!

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Tweet Atlanta 1996 USA Team gold medallist Dominique Moceanu is set to release a memoir “Off Balance” on June 5th:
An unflinchingly honest memoir from Olympic gold medalist Dominique Moceanu that reveals the often dark underbelly of Olympic gymnastics as only an insider can—and the secrets she learned about the past that nearly tore apart her family.At fourteen years old, Dominique Moceanu was the youngest member of the 1996 U.S. Women’s Olympic Gymnastic team, the first and only American women’s team to take gold at the Olympics. Her pixie-like appearance, passion …

Tweet A newly revised roster was released this week which shows a few changes to those originally listed. Click here to view the MAG and WAG lists.
Russia will be represented by Anastasia Grishina and Yulia Inshina will replace Anastasia Sidorova.
Jocelyn Hunt replaces Ruby Harrold for Great Britain and will compete with Rebecca Tunney.
The British Men and Dutch women finalised their teams. Great Britain will keep Sam Hunter as reserve with Daniel Purvis, Daniel Keatings, Louis Smith, Ruslan Panteleymonov, Kristian Thomas and Max Whitlock competing.

Joy Goedkoop is down to compete for the …

Tweet Gymnova are providing the equipment for the London 2012 Test Event this week. They’re in the process of getting everything ready, they posted an image of one of the training halls to Facebook. Looks good!

Tweet The LOGOC have announced that tickets are still available for the London 2012 Test Event next week. Tickets for Visa International Gymnastics are on sale now, priced from £10 for full price tickets and from £5 for young people and seniors. Tickets are available for men’s and women’s Artistic Gymnastics sessions, as well as for Trampoline.

Meanwhile British Gymnastics announced the MAG team who will contend for a place at the Olympics in August. The team is lead by experienced seniors Louis Smith, Daniel Keatings and Daniel Purvis as well as Kristian Thomas, …

Tweet This popped up on the Official Facebook Page that was used for the 2011 World Championships in Tokyo. Looks pretty cool.

Tweet The hotly anticipated London Prepares Series Gymnastics Test Event is only days away. From Tuesday 10th, Full Twist will be in the North Greenwich Arena in London hoping to bring you all of the live action from the event.  We have come up with this post to bring you as much information ahead of the competition. Here is what you can expect to see:

Participants & Medal Ceremony Information
Overall competition schedule
Work Plan & Break Down of Subdivisions
TV, Live & Online Coverage

Participants & Medal Ceremony Information
The participants list was issued in …

Tweet With celebrating the joys of Christmas time, we bring you bits of news that may have just escaped your gaze through turkey and presents!
Thomas Bouhail injured
The French star, Beijing 2008 Vault silver medalist and Worlds 2010 Vault Champion is reportedly likely to miss the London 2012 Olympics since suffering injury during training this week. The French newspaper Le Figaro reports that Bouhail sustained a fracture to his tibia -  fibula in training this week, he has reportedly also already received surgery. From cases I have seen of this injury, …

Tweet Merry Christmas to you all!
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Tweet Sandra Izbasa and Flavious Koczi have been named as the best Artistic Romanian gymnasts by the Romanian Gymnastics Federation. The Federation has put both Izbasa and Koczi at the top of the list for 2011.

Top 10 WAG gymnasts 2011:

Sandra Izbasa
Diana Chelaru
Amelia Racea
Catalina Ponor
Ana Porgras
Larissa Iordache
Raluca Haidu
Diana Bulimar
Daniela Andrei
Diana Trenca

Top 10 MAG gymnasts 2011:

Flavius Koczi
Marius Berbecar
Cristian Bataga
Marian Dragulescu
Vlad Cotuna
Ovidiu Buidoso
Andrei Ursache
Andrei Muntean
Daniel Radean
Andrei Groza

Do you agree with the Federations choice?  It hasn’t been Ana Porgras’ year, so she was never going to top the poll. Injuries aside, Izbasa, the 2008 Olympic …

Tweet 2012 is already shaping up to be a busy year for 2011 World All Around Champion Jordyn Wieber. Yesterday it was announced that she will compete with Worlds 2011 team mate Aly Raisman at the AT & T American Cup in March and now it is reported that she will compete at the Pacific Rim Championships, March 16th-18th. Wieber also announced in October that she has turned pro, thus giving up her NCAA eligibility and so has decided to become a professional athlete in the wake of her massive …

Tweet 2011 World all-around champion Jordyn Wieber of DeWitt, Mich./Gedderts’ Twistars USA, and 2011 World all-around finalists John Orzoco of the Bronx, N.Y./U.S. Olympic Training Center, and Aly Raisman of Needham, Mass./Brestyan’s American Gymnastics, have accepted invitations to compete in the 2012 AT&T American Cup, March 3, at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Via USAG

Can Wieber follow in the foot steps of the past two Olympic Champions Liukin and Patterson who won the title in the Olympic year??