Tweet Today saw the Men’s competition take place, the All Around and Apparatus Final Qualification and the Team Final. Most of those competing were:

Severin Kranzlmüller – Austria
Bram Louwije, Maxime Gentges , Daan Kenis – Belgium
Lukas Ridder, Marcus Frandses, Mathias Johansen – Denmark
Olli Kanerva, Aaro Lamberg, Heikki Saarenketo – Finland
Matthieu Clarivet, Benjamin Dekeyne, Stephen Micholet - France
Tim Leibiger , Lukas Schlotterer, Daniel Weinert – Germany
Frank Baines, Courtney Tulloch, Anthony Wise – Great Britain
Klaus Tantalidou, George Tserkesov, Dimitris Kiosses – Greece

Garðar Egill Guðmundsson, Hróbjartur Pálmar Hilmarsson, Sigurður Andrés Sigurðarson – Iceland
Adam Dalton – Ireland
Casimir Schmidt, Karl Kosztka, Bryan van Tienderen – Netherlands
Andrei Groza, Daniel Radeanu, …

Tweet We are all aware that next year is a huge year for gymnastics with the London 2012 Olympic Games beginning in exactly a years time. Today the FIG released the proposed calender of events for FIG World Cup & Series the 2012 – 2013 gymnastics season.
We can look forward to the following events:
As well as the London 2012 Olympics (July 28th – August 7th), WAG Euopean Championships in Brussels May 8th – 13th and the MAG European Championships in Montpellier May 21st – 27th.
LAUSANNE (SUI), FIG Office, July 26, …

Tweet A few weeks ago a video and article emerged of the Russian girls taking a break from Round Lake and training in Mallorca in Spain. They were all there, Nabieva, Komova, Mustafina, Dementyeva, Belokobylskaya, Semenova, Afanasyeva.
Another article titled “The rebirth of Russian gymnastics” has appeared this week of the Russians training in Spain. The spanish article translates as the following in Google;
During recent decades the Russian gymnastics was a big mystery. It was known that a hundred kilometers from Moscow, near the lake, stood a gray and mammoth sports complex where they lived …

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Well, this was another big week for the gymnastics world. The biggest event that occurred was the 2011 CoverGirl Classic in Chicago where we saw the return of Beijing 2008 veterans Shawn Johnson …

Tweet Many people have been asking on Twitter, Facebook and discussion forums what the criteria is for petitioning at Classics to be allowed compete at the VISA Championships in four weeks time. You can find this information in the 2010 – 2011 USAG Women’s Program Rules & Policies;
IX. PROCEDURES FOR PETITIONING Petitioning procedures are for use when the athlete is unable to compete due to illness, injury or extenuating circumstances; they are not intended to replace the qualification system.
A. USA Championships
1. No petitions will be …

Tweet Some wonderful YouTube users have already uploaded videos from last nights CoverGirl Classic. A lot of videos have been uploaded but aren’t available outside the USA unfortunately.

Imasadgiraffe has uploaded videos of the Juniors. Click here to see all. HDgymnastics  , xGymCouture and yolis94 have also uploaded videos. fUSAcopyrights also have videos.
Shawn Johnson
Bars

Beam
http://youtu.be/D7DXs4Irmvs
Chellsie Memmel
 Floor

Bars

Beam
http://youtu.be/xSJvSKztB58
Vault

Alicia Sacramone
 Beam
http://youtu.be/hN4gZfMi5Y0
Floor
http://youtu.be/G8pSmpoMTEY
Vault
http://youtu.be/HpDEuPvhMsY
Jordyn Wieber - Beam Bars
Mackenzie Wofford – Floor
Sabrina Vega –  Beam, Bars
Sophia Lee – Beam Floor
Bridgette Caquatto – Floor Vault Bars Beam
Casey Jo Magee – Floor Vault Bars Beam
Jessica Howe – Bars Beam
McKayla Maroney – Beam Floor
Anna Li – …

Tweet So the evening / early morning started off with a major glitch. It turns out that the Universal Sport live feed wasn’t actually available for anyone outside the USA. Many fans were left disappointed. Luckily I posted some information on our Full Twist Facebook which helped out a lot of gym fans outside America by allowing them to watch the live feed. The information and link is on the Facebook page if you would like it for future reference. Thank you to all for your comments and tweets of …

Tweet I woke up this morning to find my Google Reader, Facebook and Twitter feeds full of news, information and videos from yesterdays training for tonight’s CoverGirl Classic. Unfortunately I’ve had to wait a couple of hours to see it all until my training was over today.

The first thing I jumped to was a video of Shawn Johnson, like others I’ve been watching to see something new from Shawn for months. I’ve always loved her and am so delighted with her decision to make a comeback. Here is Shawn working …

Tweet As previously posted, the European Youth Olympic Festival will take place this month in Trazbon, Turkey. Artistic Gymnastics scheduled for July 24th – July 29th. At 2009 EYOF in Tampere, the Russians dominated the competition with the fantastic Viktoria Komova. A year later Viktoria became the first Youth Olympic Games champion in Singapore.
The main contenders this year for the title were expected to be Romania’s Larissa Iordache and Russia’s Anastasia Grishina and Anastasia Sidorova, unfortunately the two Russian’s have not yet recovered from previous injuries and so neither will not compete. Russia …

Tweet To celebrate the one year countdown to the London 2012 Olympics, the Royal Mail has issued a set of ten First Class stamps. The stamps titled “get ready for 2012″   will champion an Olympic or Paralympic sport and  are issued in three sets of ten stamps in 2009, 2010 and 2011, counting down to the Olympic Games. The stamps feature classic Olympic sports such as athletics and gymnastics as well as the newer additions to the Games such as handball, beach volleyball and wheelchair rugby. This is the …

Tweet My newly ordered copy of Vladimir Zaglada’s book “One Coach’s Journey from East to West:  How the Fall of the Iron Curtain Changed the World of Gymnastics” arrived this morning from Amazon. I can’t wait to read it. Product description from Amazon:
ONE COACH’S JOURNEY FROM EAST TO WEST: HOW THE FALL OF THE IRON CURTAIN CHANGED THE WORLD OF GYMNASTICS
Until the fall of the Soviet Union the West and the Communists were engaged not only in a heated arms race but a race for Olympic gold, and Moscow …

Tweet The Hong Kong Sports Institute are looking for a Head Coach;
 
THE JOB

The HKSIL works in close collaboration with the Gymnastics Association of Hong Kong, China (“GAHK”) in achieving the jointly defined goals of elite training. Therefore, while reporting to the Chief Executive, the incumbent is also responsible to the GAHK to ensure the following duties are satisfactorily conducted:
To oversee the planning, design, implementation, evaluation, of the Gymnastics programme in line with the agreed training and competition aims of the GAHK and HKSIL; 
To lead the Gymnastics Department, managing coaching and …