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Geoffrey Taucer is looking for suggestions, what would you like to him him write about in his blog? Technical of course!
Nadia Comaneci calls for more opportunities for women in their sport
CBC has compiled a list of what they consider to be the top 10 most influential (and bizarre) drugs scandals in sport
Watch some Women’s Podium Training videos via Gymnastics Australia
Shawn Johnson tweeted that she is getting a new website

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Imogen Cairns is listed in the start list for Team GB tomorrow. It seems Danusia is out and Cairns is in! Cairns has just returned from the Commonwealth Games where she competed for England. Cairns has been named as team reserve but appears to have stepped up for tomorrow’s qualifiers.

Thanks Christine for letting us know on Twitter, you’re a star!!

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Full Twist received an amazing response from readers and subscribers for our Commonwealth Games BBC TV Coverage post, so we thought that we would do it all over again with the World Gymnastics Championships. There’s already some red button information here but see below for the schedule:

Wednesday 20th October
15.50 – 18.10 Women’s Team Final (via Red Button)

Thursday 21st October
15.15 – 19.10 Men’s Team Final (via Red Button)

Friday 22nd October

13.00 – 15.00 Highlights from the Team Events (BBC 2)
14.50 – 17.50 Men’s All Around Apparatus (Via Red Button)
19.00 – 21.00 …

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The Gymnastics Examiner just posted an official update from USA Team doctor Larry Nassar with confirmation that Chelsea Davis dislocated her knee cap earlier today whilst performing a handspring front double full.
5:02 p.m.: Dislocated kneecap for Davis. Here’s the official word from USA Gymnastics:
“Chelsea Davis of Austin, Texas, injured her left knee during a training session at the 2010 World Championships in Rotterdam, Netherlands.  Davis, who trains at Texas Dreams Gymnastics, was examined at the training hall at the Ahoy Arena.
According to the team doctor, Dr. Larry Nassar, …

Tweet Gymnastike has just tweeted that USA’s Chelsea Davis has become injured while training today. I hope she’s ok. Full Twist will update when more information is released.

*Slight Update*
The Gymnastics Examiner who has been live blogging all day has some words too:
3:14 p.m.: The U.S. women did one full floor routine each. Chelsea Davis was injured performing her opening pass, a front layout to immediate double front full. She stopped immediately and lay down on the mat. It appears that the injury was to her already taped left knee, given how …

Tweet The gymnasts have all been working hard this week to iron out any mistakes they might still have. Qualifying starts tomorrow so with that, below is the programme schedule as on the Worlds Website. There’s so much gymnastics going on, I was worried I would get withdrawal symptoms after the Commonwealth Games!

Saturday 16th October
Women’s Qualifying Competition
9.00 – 10.45   Subdivision 1: Italy, China, Argentina, mixed group 1
11.00 – 12.45 Subdivision 2: Japan, New Zealand, Slovenia, Ukraine
13.00 – 15.15 Subdivision 3: Poland, Romania, Brazil, Israel
15.30 – 17.15 Subdivision 4: …

Tweet According to More Than The Games Beth Tweddle is cautious of her competition ahead of the World Gymnastics Championships. Beth has admitted that she may struggle to defend her World Floor title that she won last year in London. I wasn’t aware that Beth has suffered a calf strain in August and was forced to take a month off training which has set her back meaning that she was unable to make huge improvements to her floor routine.
In addition to dealing with the pressure of being defending champion, Tweddle …

Tweet FIG has been posting profiles of each of the Worlds Team on the Sportcentric website. Yesterday they posted the British Men’s team profile. To find out more about Sam Hunter, Louis Smith, Daniel Purvis and Kristian Thomas. I’m really impressed with the amount of information available through FIG and the World Championships 2010 Website. There’s also a profile of the Womens team, speaking to Beth Tweddle, Becky Downie, Danusia Francis, Nicole Hibbert, Hannah Whelan and Jennifer Pinches.

View some others: Canadian Mens Team, Japanese Mens Team, Australian Womens Team, …

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As it gets closer to the competition, more and more bloggers and journalists are arriving to Rotterdam to the Ahoy Stadium (and also Full Twist becomes more and more jealous of them!). Today there has been endless amounts of photographs and reports, below are what I consider to be the most interesting of the day and frankly, it’s nice to link to other blogs when you’ve got info from their pages
Gymnastics Coaching
Yuri van Gelder denies cocaine usage
New Janssen Fritsen springboard
Kohei Uchimura injured

The Couch Gymnast
Chinese Training
Romanian Training
The Couch …

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The new Official Alicia Sacramone website was launched yesterday. Click here to check it out for yourself.

There’s a blog which will hopefully be updated regularly with some good news from Alicia. There’s also a nice looking events page. What I don’t get is the music player with “Alicia’s Top Ten Songs of the Week”.
Alicia is currently over in Rotterdam with the USA Team for Worlds. Her mother Gail recently told USA Today how her and husband Fred were shocked last year when Alicia said that she would …

Tweet The FIG have rejected North Korea’s appeal:

The arguments and explanations provided do not justify a reconsideration of the provisional decision made by the President of the FIG Disciplinary Commission.
Consequently, the suspension, which was announced on 6 October 2010, will not be lifted. The Gymnastics Association of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (PRK) is not allowed to compete at national and international levels.
According to the procedure, the FIG Disciplinary Commission will meet in the near future and will invite the parties to a hearing, before finalizing and delivering its …

Tweet The Irish MAG delegation of Luke Carson, Kieran Behan and  Anthony O’Donnell departed for Rotterdam this week with coaches Simon Gale and Demetrios Bradshaw. Tom Dillon will lead the delegation with Colm Murray as Ireland’s judging representative.  Luke has only just returned from competing in the Commonwealth Games where he performed fantastically, placing 15th in the All Around final.

For those wondering (and without going into it too much), Luke can compete for both the Republic of Ireland (Worlds) and Northern Ireland (Commonwealths). This is under the terms of The …

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Today the Royal Mint (UK) launched a set of commemorative coins as lasting mementos of the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. The coin, which features a rhythmic gymnast captured in mid turn holding onto her ribbon, is one of 29 designs that represent the 29 Olympic and Paralympic sports to be contested during the Games.
Jonathan Olliffe won the chance to design the coin for Royal Mint. He told British Gymnastics that he chose to design the Gymnastics coin as he felt it presented him a …

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According to The Associated Press Yuri van Gelder withdrew from Worlds due to cocaine use – as first guessed by Rick.

The Dutch gymnastics union says it has dropped former world champion Yuri van Gelder from its team for the Gymnastics World Championships because he admitted using cocaine again.
Jos Geukers of the Royal Netherlands Gymnastics Union said Wednesday that Van Gelder had “fallen back into” cocaine use.
Van Gelder had been expected to make his comeback to major competition at the Worlds after serving a one-year ban for cocaine use. …

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The All Around has just posted on their Facebook that the North Korea Gymnastics Federation have launched an appeal for the to FIG against the decision to ban the Federation from competition for 30 days.

**Update from FIG**
On October 1, 2010, the FIG has initiated a disciplinary procedure against the Gymnastics Association of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (PRK) and their gymnast Ms. Hong Su Jong for alleged age infractions and false registrations.
The President of the FIG Disciplinary Commission in charge of this case has taken immediate action …