Tweet The tickets for the London 2012 Test Event will go on sale on Thursday November 17th but British Gymnastics are offering fans the chance to purchase their tickets 48 hour ahead of the official release date.
From November 15th, fans can purchase early bird tickets from 9am until 9am on November 17th. The tickets are sold on a first come, first serve basis so you better get your VISA cards out.
The exclusive Ticketmaster Link to follow is here and the code needed to enter is “GYMPREPARES”.

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Tweet The Northern Europeans competition concluded yesterday with the Event Finals. The Welsh and the Swedish dominated the competition, both finished on the podium in the team competition.

WOMEN’S TEAM
VT
UB
BB
FX
TOTAL

1.
Sweden

39.95
38.35
36.10
38.10
152.50

2.
Wales

38.30
35.20
37.10
37.40
148.00

3.
Iceland

39.20
31.30
33.10
36.45
140.05

4.
Norway

38.00
32.15
34.20
34.95
139.30

5.
Finland

38.75
32.85
32.05
35.60
139.25

6.
Scotland

38.40
29.80
32.20
34.15
134.55

7.
Denmark

37.75
29.15
30.40
34.40
131.70

8.
Northern Ireland

36.30
26.60
34.30
33.80
131.00

9.
Ireland

36.85
24.30
29.30
31.95
122.40

 
Both countries continued their domination in the Women’s AA competition where they placed first to fourth.

WOMEN’S ALL-AROUND
VT
UB
BB
FX
TOTAL

1.
Ida Gustafsson

13.00
13.25
12.10
13.10
51.45

2.
Kim Singmuang

13.40
11.70
11.30
13.10
49.50

3.
Elizabeth Beddoe

12.80
12.00
11.10
12.30
48.20

4.
Jessica Hogg

13.10
10.10
12.00
12.95
48.15

5.
Rosanna Ojala

13.00
11.60
11.20
12.20
48.00

6.
Tina Larsen

12.65
10.15
11.95
12.10
46.85

7.
Karoline Sondov

12.80
10.60
11.15
11.50
46.05

8.
Holly Ramage

13.00
9.15
11.15
12.55
45.85

9.
Thelma Rut Hermannsdottir

13.05
9.70
10.85
12.05
45.65

10.
Cara Kennedy

12.60
10.25
11.30
11.30
45.45

11.
Silje Dahlby

12.30
10.45
11.10
11.35
45.20

12.
Sarah Beck

12.50
10.05
10.75
11.50
44.80

13.
Reeta Pietilä

12.90
9.75
10.00
12.10
44.75

14.
Mia Furu

12.50
9.10
10.75
11.85
44.20

15.
Maija Leinonen

12.85
9.70
10.45
10.80
43.80

16.
Nicole Mawhinney

12.40
8.30
11.20
11.00
42.90

17.
Michelle Lauritsen

12.60
10.30
8.40
11.50
42.80

18.
Agnes Suto

12.75
9.10
11.35
9.45
42.65

19.
Emma Lunn

12.55
7.85
10.35
10.85
41.60

20.
Charlotte McKenna

11.40
5.90
12.35
11.25
40.90

21.
Sarah Buckley

12.10
8.75
9.60
10.35
40.80

22.
Sarah Strawbridge

11.00
8.25
10.10
11.05
40.40

23.
Jonna Adlerteg

13.40
13.40
12.70

39.50

24.
Georgina Hockenhull

12.40

12.25
12.15
36.80

25.
Hildur Olafsdottir

13.00
10.65

12.20
35.85

26.
Ida Rothe

13.15
11.15

11.00
35.30

27.
Hollie Moore

12.20
10.95

12.05
35.20

28.
Nora Munkvold

12.55
11.10
10.85

34.50

29.
Erika Pakkala

12.75

10.40
11.30
34.45

30.
Dominiqua Belányi

10.95
10.90
12.20
34.05

31.
Kirsty Campbell

12.80

9.75
10.30
32.85

32.
Yasmin El-Dabagh

12.40

10.00
10.10
32.50

33.
Mathilde Kirk

12.65
9.75
9.65

32.05

34.
Amy Regan

11.35
7.60
9.00

27.95

35.
Ciara Melia

7.40
9.35
10.45
27.20

36.
Keira Brennan

12.25
12.85

25.10

37.
Lovisa Estberg

11.15
11.90
23.05

38.
Freya Hunfjord Josephsdottir

13.15

9.80

22.95

39.
Beth Gillmor

12.20

10.65
22.85

40.
Sara El-Dabagh

8.60

11.05
19.65

41.
Frihild Nordger

10.60

8.55
19.15

42.
Sorcha White …

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 She’s finally landed it! Well done Yui Fujii, very impressive!

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 Scores from today’s DTB Pokal Competition in Stuttgart. Click on the links to watch the videos on YouTube. As always, more videos will be added once they become available. With some roster changes throughout the week, Bui competed for Seitz and Lauren Mitchell ended up competing after all.

Women’s All Around
1. Huang -  BB / FX / UB / VT
2. Bui -  BB / FX / UB / VT
3. Inshina  -  BB / FX / UB / VT
4. Mitchell -  BB / FX / UB / VT
5. Steingruber -  BB …

Tweet Australia scored well in the Team Qualification competition to qualify in first place.

View full results here.
Unfortunately the comeback that so many gymnastics fans  had been waiting for from Aliya Mustafina has been postponed. The Russian star experienced knee pain before the competition so was forced to withdraw. In my opinion, that’s a good thing, not that she experienced pain but that she withdrew. Yes, we must get back on the horse (no pun intended, honestly!) when we’ve over come injury but with the London 2012 Olympics so in sight, …

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:
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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 …