Tweet If you don’t have the Red Button or aren’t able to watch on the BBC website – try here. It’s in Russian but working for me!

Tweet UK viewers can watch live coverage from the World Gymnastics Championships 2010 via the Red Button or here on the BBC Sport Website. If you know of any other links for any other countries, please post in the comments below.

Tweet At the weekend, Gymnastics Coaching  posted about the flying camera that will be used at Worlds. Today FIG has posted an article on their website today about the “spidercam”, a remote controlled silent camera system, suspended by 4 Kevlar ropes which will be used for the first time in Rotterdam for Worlds with the hope of bringing “thrilling images from exciting new angles to the television audience”. Pretty cool eh?

The camera has been used at other sporting events such as the World Cup 2010 and was given the green …

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Ollie Williams has written a fantastic article on British gymnast Imogen Cairns, Full Twist highly recommends that you read it. Cairns who won double gold at the Commonwealth Games 2 weeks ago, was originally not on the Great Britain team for the World Championships, however Team GB had a surprise in store for us last week when Imogen’s name appeared on the starting list. British Gymnastics released a statement with the announcement, they felt that Imogen’s performance at the Commonwealth Games merited her a place on the World Championships team.
It’s …

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This morning we posted an interview with Irish gymnast Luke Carson who competed at Worlds yesterday and also at the Commonwealth Games. Since then Irish Gymnastics have linked to the interview on their website and head of the Irish head of  delegation Tom Dillon has said in his latest update from Rotterdam that the Irish Team made personal bests at Worlds which is fantastic. Luke Carson made a personal best during the competition with a score of 80.882 and Anthony O’Donnell made a personal best of 75.098.

Excellent day for …

Tweet British Gymnastics has posted some videos with Beth Tweddle, Louis Smith and Great Britain Team Physio Alistair Little. Here they talk to the English Institute of Sport about the preparation leading up to the World Championships.Watch below or on YouTube.

Beth Tweddle

Louis Smith

Alistair Little

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Tweet The FIG has begun uploading videos from todays qualifiers. Watch Kohei Uchimura below or watch all videos from FIG here.

Tweet The Men’s teams from Ireland and Great Britain will compete today in Subdivision 3 at 1.30pm. The British Team of Sam Hunter, Louis Smith, Daniel Purvis and Kristian Thomas and the Irish Team of Luke Carson, Kieran Behan and Anthony O’Donnell will compete against teams from Canada, Greece, Qatar and gymnasts from Thailand.

According to Tom Dillon (Head of the Irish Delegation), the team performed well in podium training.

They had a few areas that will be ironed out by competition. Team now focused on last few days training in preparation …

Tweet We reported earlier about Benoit Caranobe’s injury during the subdivision 1 qualifers. Pictures are starting to surface online of the event. The poor guy, let’s hope he’s ok.

Tweet I’m not seeing as much coverage online this morning for the MAG Qualifiers as there was for the WAG Qualifiers, as Ollie Williams said on Twitter, it’s Monday morning and there’s never as much interest in MAG as there is for WAG. Subdivision 1 – 5 has currently just finished and they are moving onto Subdivision 2 (Colombia, Japan, Spain, Romania, Finland, Denmark)

Reports from Gymnastics Coaching, Ollie Williams and The All Around are saying that two gymnasts have been stretchered off already – yes, in the first subdivision. Egypt’s …

Tweet Alicia Sacramone has told Inside Gymnastics that she will resume floor training next year.
Alicia Sacramone told us today she plans to resume training for floor next year… she’s already working on a routine that’ll tell the story of her journey in gymnastics, complete with dramatic music… a floor routine with some true inspiration behind it.

Judging by these videos, it appears to me that she is in flying form. I wonder could Shawn or Nastia make a return as great as hers is looking.

Beam (not the best quality)

Tweet Universal Sports will provide a live webcast of the action, as well as same-day, tape-delayed coverage on its cable network. NBC Sports will also broadcast coverage of the World Championships on Oct. 23 (4-6 p.m. ET) and on Oct. 24 (2-4 p.m. ET).

Via Universal Sports

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We posted the other day about the launch of Alicia Sacramone’s new Official Website. Today she has begun blogging during the Worlds. Hopefully she’ll post some more updates.

Hi Everyone!
It is currently 5:41 pm here in Rotterdam and we’ve had a pretty eventful day…
We woke up at 5 am to get ready for prelims and meet the rest of the team for breakfast at 6. Bused over to the arena where we warmed up and started competing. The team did great! We had a few little mistakes …

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The competition continues today with the Women’s Qualifiers in the Ahoy Stadium, Rotterdam. You can view the teams of subdivisions 7 – 12 and their pieces  on the Longines website under Working Order.
Sunday 17th October
Women’s Qualifying Competition
9.00 – 10.45   Subdivision 7: Hungary, USA, South Africa, (North Korea should have been here)
11.00 – 12.45 Subdivision 8: Canada, Columbia, Czech Republic, Austria
13.00 – 15.15 Subdivision 9: Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Ecuador
15.30 – 17.15 Subdivision 10: Switzerland, South Korea, Turkey, mixed group 4
18.00 – 19.45 Subdivision 11: Mexico, Germany, Norway, Venezuela
20.00 – 21.45 Subdivision 12: Uzbekistan, Netherlands, mixed …