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 An American news channel followed Aly Raisman for a day

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 The Northern Europeans are set to kick off in Uppsala, Sweden this weekend. The event will see both MAG and WAG gymnasts competing from Ireland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Faroe Islands, Denmark, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. The competition will be held from Friday 11th – Sunday 13th November at Fyrishov, Idrottsgatan 2, Uppsala.

Schedule:
Friday 11 november

11.00-19.30 – Open training in competition hall on request
20.30-21.00 – Technical meetings WAG and MAG
21.00-21.30 – Judges meeting and judges draw

Saturday 12 november

9.30 – WAG and MAG judges meeting
9.00-9.30 – General warm up subdivision 1
9.30-10.50 – …

Tweet Panasonic is the “official television supplier” of the London 2012 Games. Here they have used a gymnast in their television advert in the UK and Ireland for the “Smart Viera” television.

Do you know who this gymnast is? Leave a comment below if you know.

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 The competition concluded today with the second day of event finals. Once again the Chinese dominated:
MAG Vault:
1. Igor Radivilov, UKR, 16.075/15.875/15.913
2. Matthias Fahrig, GER, 15.875/15.775/15.713
3. Marek Lyszczarz, POL, 15.85/15.15/15.5
4. Nathan Gafuik, CAN, 15.75/14.85/15.3
5. Jad Mazahreh, JOR, 15.375/14.875/15.163
6. Helge Liebrich, GER, 14.975/15.325/15.15
7. Petrus Laulumaa, FIN, 15.025/15.025/15.025
8. Jindrich Pansky, CZE, 14.975/14.525/14.75

Beam: 
1. Tan Sixin, CHN, 14.95
2. Wu Liufang, CHN, 14.6
3. Valeriia Maksyuta, ISR, 13.225
4. Fiona Novak, SLO, 12.975
5. Marta Pihan-Kulesza, POL, 12.8
6. Maria Homolova, SVK, 12.8
7. Sasa Golob, SLO, 12.775
8. Brittany Rogers, CAN, 12.0

Parallel bars:
1. Wang Guanyin, CHN, 15.525
2. Mitja Petkovsek, SLO, …

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 …