Tweet It seems like the Swiss Gymnastics Federation is doing some “spring cleaning” (in winter!). Communication from the Federation today explains that the contracts of gymnasts Yasmin Zimmermann and Jennifer Senn have not been renewed. Zimmermann was part of the 2011 World Championships team which placed 18th out of 24 in the team competition. She was set to compete at the recent DTB Cup in Stuttgart but was forced to withdraw due to a foot injury. Senn was a member of the 2010 World Championships Team.

Yesterday the FSG announced the …

Tweet The Swiss Gymnastics Federation has announced yet again more retirements from it’s National Teams. 26 year old Roman Gisi and Niki Böschenstein. According to the FSG their contracts were not renewed, this decision was made mututally.
Read more from the FSG.
Image via MSN.com.
 
 
 

Tweet The Japanese Gymnastics Association has updated their website with a very small bit of news from the 2011 Tokyo Cup. Training was held yesterday and the report says that Australia’s Georgia Rose Brown suffered a finger fracture whilst on beam. The google translation says that she was ok to train safely yesterday but since this is an All Around competition, how will she fair on the other apparatus?

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Tweet Happy Thanksgiving to all of Full Twist’s American readers. Have a great day!

Tweet Just a month ago, 2008 Olympic Champion Nastia Liukinannounced her return to gymnastics, in the hopes of competing at the London 2012 Olympics. Announcing her comeback at the 2011 World Championships was seen as a poor choice by many avid gymnastics fans but Liukin revealed her intentions of starting 2-a-day training once the WCh’s were over, focusing on Uneven Bars and Balance Beam. For Liukin this means turning down lucrative deals and appearances and focusing on training.

Last week Liukin joined other top USA gymnasts such as Jordyn Wieber, Shawn Johnson …

Tweet I know very little about the USA’s NCAA Gymnastics Program but Gymmin’ Miel has posted a complete list of the gymnasts listed to compete this season:

University of Florida Gators:

Mackenzie Caquatto (Naperville, Illinois) – Sophomore
Ashanee Dickerson (Jacksonville, Florida) – Junior
Nicole Ellis (Naperville, Illinois) – Senior (Vault, Bars, Floor)
Amy Ferguson (Palm Harbor, Florida) – Senior (Floor)
Kytra Hunter (Frederick, Maryland) – Freshman
Alaina Johnson (Tyler, Texas) – Sophomore
Marissa King (Cambridge, England) – Junior
Dali Lemezen (St Petersburg, Florida) – Junior (Vault, Beam)
Elizabeth Mahlich (Mason, Michigan) – Senior (Bars, Beam)
Lauren Rose (Orlando, Florida) – Sophomore …

Tweet Visa has signed 2010 World Floor Champion Lauren Mitchell as one of its sports ambassadors for its London 2012 Olympics campaign, “Go World”, to be unveiled on November 24th. Mitchell joins American swimmer Michael Phelps and New Zealand shot putter Valerie Adams as an ambassador. VISA are an official sponsor for the London 2012 Games. Check out the beautiful shots below as posted on Lauren’s official Facebook:

An anonymous commenter on The Australian Gymnastics Blog posted this link to a news piece about the shoot. This can only be viewed …

Tweet The Huffington Post reports that disgraced ex-Olympic Coach Don Peters who was accused of the sexual abuse of two athletes in  the 1980′s has been banned for life by USA Gymnastics and has also had his place in the Hall of Fame revoked. Peters was declared “permanently ineligible” after a disciplinary hearing by USA Gymnastics last week.
Read more from the Huffington Post.

Tweet Last weekend Team GB gymnasts Jenni Pinches and Hannah Whelan made a trip across the water to visit Rathgael Gymnastics Club. Read more in the Rathgael Press Release below:
     WORLD CLASS GYMNASTS INSPIRE LOCAL TALENT
 Two leading gymnasts from the British Gymnastics squad have visited Northern Irelandto encourage support in the run in to London 2012.
 
Hannah Whelan and Jennifer Pinches, who recently returned from the gymnastics World Championship inTokyo, spent the weekend as guests ofBangorbased Rathgael Gymnastics and Tumbling Club and witnessed at first hand all that happens at the current …

Tweet World bronze vault medalist Phan Thi Ha Thanh took the SEA Games in Jakarta by storm. The 20 year old Vietnamese woman took gold in the All Around competition ahead of her team mate Do Thi Ngan Thuong and Singapore’s Lim Heem Wei secured the bronze medal.  This is another boost for Phan Thi Ha Thanh who booked her place in the London 2012 Olympic Games when she placed third on vault in Tokyo.

Phan Thi Ha Thanh (Vietnam)  53.217
Do Thi Ngan Thuong (Vietnam) 49.700
Lim Heem Wei  (Singapore) 49.484

In the MAG AA competition, …

Tweet Two weeks ago Full Twist brought you the very exciting news of Irish Gymnastics new rebranding as Gymnastics Ireland. Fllowing on from the very successful brand launch, Gymnastics Ireland has had more to celebrate. The Irish male gymnasts are going from strength to strength as this press release explains:

Irish Male gymnasts go from strength to strength
 
Anthony O’Donnell makes history as he claims Ireland’s First Northern European medal
 
Uppsala, Sweden, 13th November:  The Irish team travelled back to Ireland today after the 2011 Northern European Championships in Uppsala, Sweden with Anthony …

Tweet Good going FIG!
The Trampoline and Tumbling World Championships have launched its iPhone app.
The brand new app includes exciting features like detailed profiles on the GB Team and international gymnasts, maps of locations, videos, the event schedule and exclusive vouchers for restaurants close to the NIA.
The app is now ready to download from the app store, (SEARCH) ‘T&T World Champs 2011

Tweet The competition in Stuttgart concluded today with the Men’s AA competition and the Women’s Team final. Results and videos are below. Gymnastics Examiner was live blogging.

Austria:

Lisa Ecker FX / VT / UB / BB
Katherine Fa FX / VT / UB / BB
Elisa Hammerle FX / VT / UB / BB
Jasmin Mader FX / VT / UB / BB

Australia:

Nikki Cheung FX / VT / UB / BB
Emily Little FX / VT / UB / BB
Lauren Mitchell FX / VT / UB / BB
Larrissa Miller FX / VT / UB / …

Tweet As well as withdrawing from this weekends DTB Pokal Stuttgart World Cup, the 2010 World Champion has been forced to withdraw from a competition in Mexico scheduled for early December. Mustafina was originally due to make her comeback in Mexico, to which many were surprised but were even more surprised when her comeback was announced for this weekend.

The Facebook page for the mexican event Abierto Mexicano de Gimnasia has posted the official line up, Mustafina does not feature but Afanaseyva will take her place. It states that Mustafina has …

Tweet I’ve updated the Gymnastics Blog list which is located on the right hand side of this site below the Subscribe, Twitter and Facebook plugins. I’ve updated with the following blogs which are new to me:
Gymnastics Controversies 
 
The E Panel
Keeping Balance
Bekah’s “Get a Grip” Gymblog
Stick It To The Mat
The Gymnastics Notebook
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