Tweet Just before Christmas it was announced that french star and  2010 World Vault Champion Thomas Bouhail suffered an injury whilst training for the London 2012 Test Event. Bouhail is said to have suffered a bad fracture to his tibia – fibula in training, the injury required surgery and will require a lot of physiotherapy and rehabilitation.

It has emerged this week however, via his official website, that he will not take part in the London 2012 Olympics with his team. Both the MAG and WAG French teams qualified for London …

Tweet Another illustration by the Japanese, this time of Viktoria Komova’s 2011 Worlds Bar routine

Tweet The Artistic Gymnastics London 2012 Test Event concluded tonight with the Men’s High Bar, Parallel Bar and Vault final as well as the Women’s Floor and Balance Beam final. There was some really tough competition, especially in the Men’s Vault and Women’s Floor final. Today however was not World Beam Champion Sui Lu’s day, falls off and on beam helped her score a low. Videos are currently being uploaded to the Full Twist YouTube Channel.
Women’s Floor
1. Vanessa Ferrari 14.400
2. Victoria Moors 14.200
3. Daiane dos Santos 14.066
3. Marine Brevet 14.066
5. …

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Tweet It’s been a non – stop roller coaster of media attention for Kieran Behan since securing his spot at the Olympic Games on Wednesday. Tonight he will be live on Ireland’s The Late Late Show.

The show, currently presented by Ryan Tubridy, is the world’s longest running television chat show and draws in millions of viewers each week. The show is broadcast live for over two hours in front of a studio audience at 21.35 on Friday nights between September and May. It is highly regarded as an Irish television …

Tweet Following Kieran Behan’s Olympic qualification, Europe’s largest bookmaker Paddy Power has released odds on the young gymnast. Website Betting Pro reports:

Kieran’s heart warming story has prompted Paddy Power to also bet 16/1 that he’ll bring out a best selling autobiography in the next four years. The odds on him winning a medal either this year or further down the line in 2016 are 28/1 while it’s 200/1 he’s named Sports Personality of the Year by 2016.      

Sharon McHugh, spokesperson for Paddy Power told Bettingpro: 

“Kieran defied all the …

Tweet Great Britain stole the show this evening picking up four medals at the first day of the Apparatus Finals. View the results below:
Pommel Horse
1 SMITH Louis GBR 15.700
2 WHITLOCK Max GBR 15.100
3 LIKHOVITSKIY Andrey BLR 14.966
4 BUSNARI Alberto ITA 14.791
5 HIDVEGI Vid HUN 14.666
5 CORRAL BARRON Daniel MEX 14.666
7 TOMMASONE Cyril FRA 13.833
8 YAMAMOTO Shoichi JPN 13.300
Rings
1 NABARRETE ZANETTI Arthur BRA 15.533
2 MORANDI Matteo ITA 15.433
3 RAMOS Tommy PUR 15.100
4 PINHEIRO-RODRIGUES Danny FRA 5.033
5 ANGIOLETTI Matteo ITA 14.933
6 IGNATYEV Nikita RUS 14.866
7 PURVIS Daniel GBR 14.766
8 MUNOZ Sergio ESP …

Tweet Ireland’s newly named Olympian Kieran Behan ranked 4th in tonight’s London 2012 Test Event Floor Appartus final with a score of 14.900. He also received the second highest execution score of the evening, 9.000 just .033 behind Great Britain’ Max Whitlock. The floor final was won by both Daniel Purvis (15.466), Enrique Tomas Sepulveda Gonzelaz of Chile (15.466) and Kristian Thomas (15.333).

He looked pumped as he took to the podium tonight, bringing his “famous bag of chalk” with him. He jumps on the podium with excitement before his name …

Tweet …Here. Amazing stuff. Great move by the FIG.

Tweet The official list has now been released. View it below.

Tweet The final 4 teams were decided:

Italy
Canada
France
Brazil

All Around
1. Vanessa Ferrari, ITA, 56.532
2. Erika Fasana, ITA, 56.466
3. Carlotta Ferlito, ITA, 56.132
4. Marine Brevet, FRA, 56.066
5. Julie Croket, BEL, 55.733
6. Christine Lee, CAN, 55.565
7. Giulia Steingruber, SUI, 55.465
8. Daniele Hypolito, BRA, 55.365
9. Anne Kuhm, FRA, 55.257
10. Anastasia Grishina, RUS, 55.091
11. Maria Paula Vargas, ESP, 54.965
12. Francesca Deagostini, ITA, 54.958
13. Aagje Vanwalleghem, BEL, 54.865
14. Ana Sofia Gomez Porras, GUA, 54.766
15. Kristina Vaculik, CAN, 54.707
16. Ana Maria Izurieta, ESP, 54.666
17. Elsa Garcia, MEX, 54.631
18. Heo Seon Mi, KOR, 54.432
19. Rebecca Tunney, GBR, 54.399
20. Victoria Moors, …

Tweet I couldn’t resist the awful pun. Check out new videos of Louis Smith (sponsored by Lucozade) and Dan Keatings (sponsored by Opus Energy):