Tweet There’s a great discussion going on over at Gymnastics Coaching at the moment. At the weekend Rick posted about Gymnastics Bloggers at Worlds.
In Rotterdam at the World Gymnastics Championships, it was a delight to hang out with Brigid McCarthy (The Couch Gymnast and Couch Gymnast magazine), Anne Phillips (Gymnastike) and Blythe Lawrence (Gymnastics Examiner).
There were many other bloggers, journalists and photographers there too, but I spent most of my time with these three gymnastics fanatics. It’s insane how hard they work.
I wish I’d been there but to be honest, I wouldn’t have a clue about how to …

Tweet As previously mentioned, Shannon Miller is endorsing the new Gymnastics Social Network Gymnast Spotlight.  I’m interested to see how this takes off.

The about page on the website describes it as:

Welcome to GymnastSpotlight.com where YOU can Spotlight your Dreams!
As parents of an Optional Gymnast we have found that there are so many different aspects involved in gymnastics.  In fact, it can be overwhelming at times.  How nice it would have been to have an outlet to discuss things like nutrition, facilities, coaching, skills, college recruiting, and all areas that are …

Tweet Shannon Miller was recently interviewed by Gym Power about her thoughts on the World Championships in Rotterdam. I did see during the World Championships that Miller was busy endorsing new social network GymnastSpotlight.com. I had been meaning to take a look at it but the Worlds were just far too exciting, coincidentally the website is working for me at the moment.

On World Champion Aliya Mustafina:
What in an incredible talent. Mustafina reminds me a lot of myself (although i believe she is much more talented). She doesn’t take …

Tweet Last week during the World Gymnastics Championships, British Gymnastics submitted a bid to host the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
BG submitted the paperwork to bid for the event just one year after the Worlds were held at the O2 arena in London which will also be the gymnastics venue for the London 2012 Olympics. Under proposals, the event would be staged at the 12,500 capacity £125 million Scottish National Arena in Glasgow. it’s due to open in 2013 and stage the Commonwealth Games gymnastic events in 2014. Organisers expect that …

Tweet A great new article from BBC Sport’s Ollie Williams. At the weekend he posted this picture of the Chinese Women’s Coach “being grilled” by the media as to why the Chinese Women wouldn’t be bringing home any gold medals from Worlds, the first time this has happened since 2002. It’s easy to say, duh, Huang and Kexin fell from the bars in the Individual Apparatus Finals and almost handed Beth Tweddle the World title.

Ollie discusses how gymnastics in China is perceived, age falsification, China’s response on being beaten …

Tweet As Rick posted yesterday, the British Press are CRAZY for the members of the Great British Worlds Team at the moment. Every time I sign into my Google reader there’s numerous posts about the gymnasts who represented Great Britain at the World Championships, mostly about medal winners Louis Smith, Beth Tweddle and Dan Purvis.

If you’ve missed some of the stories and interviews since the gymnasts won their medals, here’s some below.
Dan Purvis:
Delighted Dan Purvis stunned by World Gymnastics medal
Louis Smith:
Silver Smith targets gold at London 2012
Louis Smith plans …

Tweet There’s a debate over at the IG Forum – what moves could possibly have been submitted to FIG / WTC, to be included in the new Code of Points. Below are some videos of what people think could be included. Read more from this post if you are not sure how or why new skills are submitted.

Aliya Mustafina – 1.5 Double back dismount off UB

Huang Qiushang – Eagle grip endo with full pirouette in one arm

Elisabetta Preziosa – Turn with the foot held back at head level on BB

also …

Tweet British Gymnastics has released the names of the gymnasts competing in the Glasgow Grand Prix next month. They are as follows:

Lauren Mitchell (AUS)
Eleftherios Kosmidis (GRE)
Ekaterina Kurbatova (RUS)
Wang Guanyin (CHN)
Louis Smith (GBR)
Daniel Purvis (GBR)
Imogen Cairns (GBR)
Alexander Shatilov (ISR)
Donna Donny Truyens (BEL)
Saso Bertoncelj (SLO)
Andrey Isaev (UKR)
Jeffrey Wammes (NED)
Samuel Piasecky (SVK)
Theo Seager (GBR)
Ruslan Panteleymonov (GBR)
Hannah Whelan (GBR)
Becky Downie (GBR)
Jennifer Pinches (GBR)
Enrique Tomas Gonzales Sepulveda (CHI)
Tomislav Markovic (CRO)
Wajdi Bouallegue (TUN)
Hongtao ZHANG (CHN)
Robert Seligman (CRO
Alberto Busnari (ITA)
Junlin Liao (CHN)
Samir Ait Said (FRA)
Danny Piheiro-Rodrigues (FRA)
Matteo Angoletti (ITA)
Aleksander Balandin (RUS)
Konstantin Pluzhnikov (RUS)
Irodotos Georgallas …

Tweet After the conclusion of the World Championships on Sunday, we posted about the fact that both Aliya Mustafina and Tatiana Nabieva’s Vaults in the Vault Event Finals were devalued and also both girls incurred a 0.1 penalty. Gymnastics Coaching kindly linked to our post and this began a discussion in the comments on his website.
The numerous comments concluded that the vaults were downgraded as they were in a piked position as opposed to gaining full marks for proper layout position:
Jason:
In terms of the devalue of the 2 russians …

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Japan’s Rie Tanaka and Germany’s Philipp Boy were both presented with the Longines Prize for Elegance last weekend at the World Championships. Watch Tanaka’s routines below, she’s beautiful to look at. Who would you have chosen to receive the prize? Porgras? Mustafina?
Beam

Floor

Bars

Vault

Read more FIG Rotterdam 2010 site and Longines

Tweet Beth Tweddle would. Beth talks to More Than The Games about Great Britains most successful World Gymnastics Championships to date and what winning an Olympic medal would mean.

Team mate Louis Smith won a bronze medal at the Beijing Games in 2008, helping to boost the reputation of gymnastics in Great Britain, thus meaning that Gymnastics saw its budget for London 2012 boosted by more than £1m after the Games – adding currency to the debate that for UK Sport, the government agency responsible for distributing National Lottery funding, …

Tweet Last week while the World Gymnastics Championships were on, the European Acrobatics Championships were also on in Poland. Gymnasts Leigh Lehane and Roisin O’Shea represented Ireland and won the bronze medal in the Women’s Pair 11 – 16 Event. What a great achievement for Irish Gymnastics! The girls finished 3rd behind Russia and Great Britain who achieved Gold and Silver medals respectively. It’s great to hear about Irish Gymnastics doing well, if you’d like to learn more about Irish Gymnastics, you should read the Interview with Irish Gymnastics Coach …

Tweet Gimnastas.net asks on Twitter:

“this” being the revised May edition of the WAG Helpdesk (a PDF document to help clarify & give examples of different rules in the FIG WAG Code of Points). The Helpdesk on page 36 of 61 states:

Gimnastas says that the Code of Points also states that in order to get the value for a twisting element you have to complete the rotations and that there are piked saltos with over 180º turn listed in the COP. Gimnastas feels that they shouldn’t have published that on …

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The competition came to a close today with the Womens Beam and Floor Event finals taking place as well as the Mens Vault, High Bar and Parallel Bars event finals.The results are below, click through to see the full results summary:

Ana Porgras – Women’s Beam World Champion
Lauren Mitchell – Women’s Floor World Champion
Zhe Feng – Men’s Parallel Bars World Champion
Thomas Bouhail – Men’s Vault World Champion
Chenglong Zhang – Men’s High Bar World Champion

The Women’s floor final was tough. Olympic Floor Champion Sandra Izabasa stepped out of bounds twice, she …

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Sunday 24th October

14.00 – 17.00 Men’s Vault, High Bar & Rings Final and the Women’s Beam & Floor Final (BBC 2)
The BBC coverage will feature additional commentary from Dan Purvis, Louis Smith, Beth Tweddle and Daniel Keatings. Note that it isn’t in fact live, which is a terrible pity.
BBC Sport Website
If you’re not sure if your country will be showing coverage – check here for a list from FIG of countries showing coverage
China: CCTV
Japan: Fuji TV
South Korea: SBS;
Australia:  Fox Sports
Brazil: Globosat
USA: NBC & Universal Sports
Canada: CBC
Europe: Great …