Tweet The FIG have sent out a newsletter from WTC President Nellie Kim which includes a report from the 2011 Tokyo World Championships and confirmation of a new move submitted.
Diana Bulimar’s Johnson Leap with additional 1/1 Turn has been confirmed as a new element.

The document is an excellent read, full of numbers and statistics. Personally I find the section relating to the gymnasts ages very interesting:

Tweet Singapore Gymnastics has confirmed that Lim Heem Wei has earned a spot at the London 2012 Test Event. It appears that the FIG has informed the gymnastics federations of those who will be eligible to compete in London in January. She placed 103rd in the All Around competition in Tokyo.
Twenty-two year old LIM Heem Wei has done it!  Her recent performance at the World Championships in Tokyo has awarded her with a place at the Test Event in London, January 2011.  This is the second qualification to the London Olympics …

Tweet Communication from the FI G today tells us that the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (PRK) has been suspended as a result of a disciplinary breach. No more detail is given but will Korea ever learn? After suffering suspension last year due to age falsification, they should really know better to keep their heads low.
In other news, today’s FIG communication confirms the following:

Jessica Dowling of The Netherlands will now compete for Canada
Andrey Lihovitskiy (Russia) will compete for Belarus
Robert Kriangkum (Thailand) will compete for Canada
Eight teams will compete at the …

Tweet Australia’s Emily Little, Netherlands Marlies Rijken and Russia’s Yulia Belokobylskaya have all been added to the roster to compete in the All Around competition at this weekends DTB Pokal Stuttgart World Cup.  See the full and current line up here.
In other news, Elisabeth Seitz has been forced to withdraw due to a foot injury, she will be replaced by Kim Bui.

Tweet It has been confirmed by the DTB Pokal Stuttgart World Cup Competition Director, Valery Belinki that the 2010 All Around World Champion Aliya Mustafina will compete at this weekends event. The Russian star will make her comeback just seven months after surgery to repair an ACL tear which she sustained at the 2011 European Championships.

Mustafina saw her Doctor on Tuesday in Germany and was granted permission to compete:
“The doctor has given the green light for a start. It is under the newly imposed Team competition balance beam and uneven …

Tweet The FIG have updated the current MAG World rankings, here are the top 10 All Around Category A MAG Gymnasts:

Rk
NOC
Gymnast
USA
GBR
GER
JPN
Best 1
Best 2
Best 3
TOTAL

1
UKR
KUKSENKOV M.
45
35
0
0
45
35
0
80

2
USA 
HORTON J.
50
20
0
0
50
20
0
70

2
GER
BOY P.
25
45
0
0
45
25
0
70

4
GBR
PURVIS D.
15
50
0
0
50
15
0
65

5
FRA
TOMMASONE C.
30
25
0
0
30
25
0
55

6
USA
DALTON J.
40
0
0
0
40
0
0
40

6
ESP
MARTINEZ R.
0
40
0
0
40
0
0
40

8
JPN
UEMATSU K.
35
0
0
0
35
0
0
35

8
GBR
HUNTER S.
20
15
0
0
20
15
0
35

10
ISR
SHATILOV A.
0
30
0
0
30
0
0
30

 
 
260
260
0
0

Tweet Yet another Swiss gymnast has announced their retirement from the sport of gymnastics. Daniel Groves, a national team member since 2005, is forced to retire due to a knee injury  he sustained at the World Championships.
So far this year Switzerland has announced the retirement of both Ariella Kaeslin and Linda Stampfli.

Tweet Geoff Rellis is another Irish gymnast who has made the move to the UK for better training facilities, others include top male gymnasts Luke Carson, Chris O’Connor and Kieran Behan. In August 2010, three time All Ireland Champion Rellis was training at Tolworth Gymnastics Club in the lead up to the 2010 World Championships in Rotterdam when a huge halt was put on his rising career.   While training on vault, something went drastically wrong with his technique during his handspring double front, when he hear a crack on landing and was suffering shooting pains down …

Tweet It’s all about Gymnastics Ireland this week. On the back of the new identity launch, Kieran Behan is set to compete in the Osijek Grand Prix today.  Kieran will be aiming for Ireland’s second ever FIG medal when he takes to the arena. You might remember that in September, the 22 year old secured Ireland’s first ever FIG medal at the Salamunov Memorial Cup in Slovenia.

Best of luck to Kieran, everyone is rooting for you!
Find out more about Kieran’s bid for a medal here.
Find out more about the Osijek …

Tweet Louis Smith is in Ireland today doing some media and press for the new Gymnastics Ireland brand launch. At 6.30pm tonight he will be on the air on Today FM with Anton Savage on “The Last Word” discussing London 2012, Gymnastics Ireland, Men’s Gymnastics and living in constant pain.
You should be able to listen live online here.

Tweet Only three weeks ago Jordyn Wieber became the new All Around World Champion and last week it was announced that she is to turn pro, giving up her NCAA eligibility. On the back of this, Rita Wieber, Jordyn’s mother is set to pen a book titled “Gym Mom — Surviving your daughter’s gymnastics career” for which she has secured a publisher and distributor.

Mrs Wieber says that the book won’t as such be a “how to” guide for Gym Moms but observations and insights from her  experience as a gymnastics …

Tweet Our new World Champion has decided to give up her NCAA Eligibility and turn pro since winning her World Title. The 16 year old has made the big decision and enter the world of endorsements, promos and advertisement. Gymnastics Examiner has the full story.

Tweet Great Britain’s Daniel Keatings wrote a column for The Telegraph following his uncharacteristically bad form at the World Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo. From reading the column, it  is clear to see that Dan is clearly gutted at the result, as Great Britain’s main objective for the 2011 WCh’s was to qualify for the London 2012 Games.

I am trying to erase the memory of the World Championships from my mind. Nothing went to plan for me and our performance as a team was probably as bad as it gets.

The Worlds …

Tweet The FIG have released the first list of Artistic Gymnastics Teams and Individuals who have qualified to the London Olympics. The teams who qualified in the top eight at the 2011 World Championships in Tokyo have already guaranteed their place to the Games. Most individuals who are not members of teams that won a World Championships medal this year also qualify to London.
Nations still have an opportunity to qualify for the Olympics Games at the test event held in London in January 2012. All information for the event including tickets and …

Tweet I was looking at the scores from the AA final and saw that Sandra Mary Collantes of Peru had only competed on one apparatus so figured that something must have gone wrong. Gymnastics Examiner linked to this article and then a video of her being stretchered off appeared on YouTube. Let’s hope it’s nothing too serious.