Tweet By now the rest of the World are aware of Ireland’s current financial difficulties. Ireland officially applied for a bailout or “loan” from the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and European Union.  Within the last week, Ireland has made the headlines everywhere, insisting the country didn’t need a bailout from the IMF, to a badly organized press conference on Sunday evening announcing that the bailout is required and to the Green Party announcing that they will withdraw from the coalition Government and called for a General Election (GE) as did …

Tweet Full Twist was contacted by a Gym Mom from the UK this week. She was delighted to see that Full Twist had highlighted the new and upcoming talent on the UK gymnastics scene. Recently we posted about British U12 Champion Ellie Downie, yesterday about Rebecca Tunney and last year about Catherine Lyons. All gymnasts hope to represent Great Britain in the near future at Olympic level and are showing great talent.
It’s a pity that young gymnasts with this much talent don’t get the recognition they deserve, a good …

Tweet This week the FIG published the list of new elements performed at the World Championships in Rotterdam in October. The updated symbols sheets are also available. Download the files here
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Tweet The Elite Gym Massilia competition also took place last weekend. Tatiana Nabieva, Ksenia Afanaseyeva, and Ksenia Semyonova headlined the event and took the gold.

View some videos here and here.  Gymnastics Examiner has some videos from the Qualifiers here. Read more on the competition from Gymnastics Examiner here and from The Couch Gymnast

Tweet The Chinese continued their winning streak in the Artistic Gymnastics Individual Apparatus Finals today. China won gold and silver in both the Men’s and Women’s competition. The FIG have a report here. View the results here or below.

Tweet The Chinese women took the gold medal at this weekends Womens Team Final at the Asian Games.

There’s some videos up on Jiang Yuyan’s Facebook page. Check them out here – Floor and Vault,
Here’s a nice montage of the team on all 4 pieces. YouTube user rkwy1212 also has videos uploaded here. Between The Olympics has a report on the competition here you can also find The All Around’s report here.

The Chinese Men also won the gold medal yesterday. Read The All Arounds report here.

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What does it take to become the country’s greatest ever Gymnast? Sky Sports News Special Report has been behind the scenes with Beth Tweddle to see her at work.

Their cameras have been with the World Champion at her home, at training and have travelled with her as she tries to raise the profile of her sport. She may be World, European and Commonwealth champion but she is still chasing that Olympic medal. See how she is preparing for London 2012 and much more on Monday, 15 November on …

Tweet There’s a lot of action going on in the gymnastics world this weekend. I have a busy weekend myself so I hope to keep Full Twist as updated as much as I can.

The T & T World Championships are still continuing in Metz.

The Asian Games kick off today with  Artistic Gymnastics beginning tomorrow, Saturday – featuring the Chinese Women’s Worlds Team

The DTB Pokal (FIG World Cup A)  and Champions Trophy competitions take place in Stuttgart -featuring  Lauren Mitchell, Hannah Whelan & Imogen Cairns
The Elite Gym Massilia will take place …

Tweet The Canadian Sports Hall of Fame are had their annual induction ceremony yesterday evening at Calgary’s Hyatt Hotel, and three Olympians were honored including gymnast Kyle Shewfelt.

Shewfelt told the Vancouver Sun:

“Is this really happening right now? Am I sitting between Jacques and Patrick. Wow. What an honour this is for myself and my family. I can’t tell you how happy my mom and my dad are that all those bingos they worked actually paid off and the dream came true. It’s also a huge honour for gymnastics in Canada …

Tweet Shawn Johnson’s video game will be released in the USA on November 16th. She recently did an interview with USA Today Game Hunters about the game. We previously posted screen shots of the new game but a video is now available to watch .Read the full interview and view the video here.

What got you interested in a video game based on gymnastics?
(Developer Zoo Games) talked about this idea of a realistic gymnastics game. (Others) have done gymnastics games before, (but) they were kind of cartoonish and they didn’t focus …

Tweet Ellie Downie is Great British Team Member Becky Downie’s younger sister. At 11 years old she is the British U12 champion. Ellie’s coach Claire Starkey at Notts Gym Club thinks that Ellie is just as talented as her older sister and feels that if Ellie continues to work as well as she has that it’s a strong possibility that she could compete in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, maybe even with Becky if she continues to compete in her 20′s like Beth Tweddle. Ellie is currently …

Tweet As previously posted, Daniel Keatings was part of the commentary team for the BBC’s coverage of the World Gymnastics Championships in October. I really think he did a great job.  He seems like a really genuine guy and very nice. In his latest blog post on the Opus Energy Challenge website, Daniel discusses what he calls “The Most Successful Team GB Ever”.

Daniel really had a busy time in Rotterdam, as well as offering support to his Team mates he was part of the delegation who were presenting their bid …

Tweet Canadian Gymnast Madeline Gardiner has been named Cambridge Athlete of the Year. Madeline was chosen amongst a group of nominees that included  athletes in sports such as cross-country skiing, martial arts, cycling and water skiing.

The gymnast is on the Canadian National team and is being tipped as one of the gymnasts who may represent Canada in the 2012 Olympics. She recently competed in the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore. Madeline finished in 13th place all around and qualified vault, bars and beam event finals. Although not …

Tweet Further to our post yesterday regarding the warning issued by the UKAD regarding the substance Methylhexaneamine, the World Anti-Doping Agency has released an update list of prohibited substances. The WADA has included a new section called the Non Approved Substances, this addresses the abuse of pharmacological substances  which are under pre-clinical or clinical development or discontinued.

If you’re interested, you can read more here on the FIG website.

Tweet The FIG has issued a 2 year suspension to gymnast Hong Su Jong and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea National Federation (PRK) for a period of 2 years, from October 6, 2010 to October 5, 2012.
The FIG Presidential Commission confirms the proposal made by the Disciplinary Commission to suspend gymnast HONG Su Jong and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea National Federation for a period of 2 years, from October 6, 2010 to October 5, 2012, and to forbid from participating  in any capacity in any competition or …