Tweet The final list of competitors for the Glasgow World Cup was released today. I’m disappointed to say that Lauren Mitchell and Ariella Kaeslin have followed Qiushuang and withdrawn from the competition this weekend. I haven’t heard that Mitchell or Kaeslin are injured, I suspect Kaeslin is exhausted after the Euros though. Jiang Yuyuan has also withdrawn, perhaps too close to the Chinese Nationals competition in a few weeks. Very disappointing.

What a pity, I was looking forward to seeing all 3 gymnasts so much. View the new revised line up …

Tweet Well, it seems this morning was a morning of interviews for Beth Tweddle. Not only did she have radio interviews, she also stopped by Sky News early this morning to discuss London 2012. Watch the interview here.

Here is what Beth has to say about retaining her European title with her new bar routine:
“British sport at the minute is on the up, everybody’s ready for the 2012 Games. Everyone’s ready to make that final step up. To reach the Olympics is everyone’s dream but to have it with that home crowd …

Tweet Phillip Boy pulled himself back on the last rotation to grab the gold medal.  Some excellent performances, delighted to have found the free streaming link from Eurosport.
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Tweet Watch a LIVE FEED from Eurosport here!!  I’m going to get very little work done all day

Tweet Following the news earlier in the week that Qiushuang Huang suffered a metacarpal fracture and will be unable to compete at the Glasgow World Cup next weekend, Great Britains Jennifer Pinches has been called up to compete. After competing in the European WAG Qualifications on Wednesday, Pinches tweeted that she will compete at the event in Glasgow. Check out the full line up here.
 

Photo via The Couch Gymnast

Tweet The Men and Women compete in the All Around competitions today.  It should be a fantastic competition, for the Women especially. I fully expect Mustafina to take the title but Dementyeva to also perform excellently. Seitz should also perform well on home turf. I see the 2 Russians on the podium but the other spot could be anyone’s should they keep it together. Numerous bloggers picked Musatfina as their All Around champion and Phillip Boy for the Men. Check out the discussion here.
The Men’s All Around competition will begin …

Tweet Today saw the Men’s Qualification event take place. Great Britain’s Theo Seager and Ireland’s Luke Carson has to withdraw from competition due to injury, a pity. Theo’s work from podium training sounded fantastic.Seager is said to have been  taken to hospital having hyperextended both knees in vault training earlier on Thursday. The British team are waiting for news of his condition.
The DTB Live Ticker is fantastic for live coverage, as are Gymnastics Examiner, International Gymnast and The All Around. This Europeans is one of the best and …

Tweet The schedule for todays MAG Qualification at Europeans is as follows:

10:00 am – 1st subdivision
02:00 pm – 2nd subdivision
05:30 pm – 3rd subdivision

The first subdivision will see Great Britain’s Dan Purvis and Sam Hunter compete. Also competing will be Hungarian Vid Hidvegi, Dimitri Savitski (BEL), Espen Jansen (NOR) and Bart Deurloo (NED). The Irish men will also compete – Anthony O’Donnell and Christopher O’Connor, unfortunately Luke Carson who would be Ireland’s most well known gymnast had had to withdraw from competition due to an injury sustained in his foot …

Tweet The Euro’s kicked off this morning with the Women’s Qualification event. It seemed like a really interesting day.
Gymnastics Examiner and International Gymnast were posting excellent up to the minute updates on Facebook and Twitter. Highlighting some important tit-bits as well as live blogging the gymnasts routines. Universal Sports and Alan Edwards, the British Gymnastics official photographer have uploaded photos from today’s competition.
Some highlights:

Mustafina absolutely dominated her subdivision:

… The arena falls silent. You could hear a pin drop in here. All eyes are on Mustafina, all breath bated. Arabian double …

Tweet I have really been looking forward to seeing Qiushuang in Glasgow next week at the Glasgow World Cup. However, Chinese Gymnastics reports that Qiushuang has unfortunately suffered a hand fracture and will be unable to compete in Glasgow. Bummer… I wonder who might take her place?

Photo by Jamie McDonald/Getty Images AsiaPac
**Update 7/4/11**
Jennifer Pinches announced on Twitter that she has been slotted into the line up for Glasgow.
 
 

Tweet The schedule for todays WAG Qualification at Europeans is as follows:

10.30am: 1st Subdivision
1.30pm: 2nd Subdivision
3.45pm: 3rd Subdivision
6.00pm: 4th Subdivision

Results will be published on the UEG website after every subdivision.

Follow live quick hits (in english) on the official website
Gymnastics Examiner has quick hits also as does The All Around. Check through our Europeans 2011 TV & Online coverage post for more online links to live coverage.
Subdivision 1 starts with the following gymnasts:

Yulia Belokobylskaya (RUS) VT
Ana Porgras (ROU) UB
Jennifer Pinches (GBR) BB
Adela Sajn (SLO) FX
Anna Dementyeva (RUS) VT
Linda Staempfli (SUI) UB
Danusia …

Tweet Gymnastics Examiner and International Gymnast have so far been doing a fantastic job of live blogging from the podium training at Europeans this week. Yesterday began with the Women’s Podium Training. Beth Tweddle and Hannah Whelan were in the later slot to Jennifer Pinches and Danusia Francis and trained yesterday evening.
The reports from the live blogs showed that Beth seemed to be having some trouble yesterday, a little on bars and more on floor.

From Gymnastics Examiner yesterday:
7:32 p.m.: Tweddle, floor: 1.5 to Arabian double front, rather heavy landing …

Tweet The British media has been a flurry for the past week or so with news of their gymnasts ahead of the European Championships.
Louis Smith and coach Paul Hall are raising the bar
I absolutely love this piece from The Telegraph, it’s very honest from both Paul Halls side and Louis Smiths side.
When I was young I was probably the worst kind of kid to coach: the problem child from hell. I had ADHD, a short attention span and I was just crazy.
I hate it now when I meet someone like …

Tweet The online and TV coverage posts that Full Twist posted for last years World Championships proved to be very popular so we thought it’d be a great idea to do it again for the 2011 European Championships.

Online Coverage:

Follow the Official Website for information.
GymNiceTic has also arrived in Berlin. Blog
International Gymnast Magazine are live blogging. Blog – Twitter – Facebook
The All Around will be providing coverage too. Blog – Twitter – Facebook
Blythe Lawrence of Gymnastics Examiner is at Europeans covering the event on her blog. Blog - Twitter -Facebook
BBC Sport Online http://bbc.in/al7R1X

Watch for free here
 
 
Television Coverage

BBC …

Tweet Last week we reported that Daniel Keatings was not chosen as a gymnast to represent Great Britain at the up-coming European Championships next week in Berlin. Daniel has written an opinion piece for The Telegraph where he discusses his recovery and how his aim when overcoming injury was to compete at the European Championships.
 

 
..although things are definitely falling back into place after such a long absence, I am still a little bit rusty and the decision has been taken for me not to compete at next week’s European Championships …