Tweet This weekend saw the WAG British Championships taking place in Liverpool. All eyes were certainly on Liverpool’s own Hannah Whelan to see whether she could retain her All Round Champion title for a second year running.Hannah did just so, winning the Senior All Around title over GB team mates Danusia Francis and Jenni Pinches.The girls are all certainly looking fantastic ahead of the World Championships in October. There are a few juniors who also look fantastic, some possibly eligible for the 2012 team.
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Seniors EF Top Scores:
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Imogen Cairns …

Tweet Beth Tweddle Bars

Beth Tweddle Floor

Danusia Francis Floor

Danusia Francis Bars

Hannah Whelan Floor

Hannah Whelan Bars

Jennifer Pinches Bars

Jocelyn Hunt Bars
Jenni Pinches Vault 1
Jenni Pinches Vault 2
Imogen Cairns Vault 1
Imogen Cairns Vault 2
Thanks to the following YouTube users for their videos: AMA1235410 and GymnasticJam

Tweet Irish Gymnastics have made a big announcement today. They have finally completed their search for a Marketing and Events Manager.Kathryn Catney will take up the new position in August.
Kathryn is a fully qualified journalist graduating from Manchester based News Associates, one of the UKs busiest and most respected press agencies. While at News Associates she specialised in media law, public affairs, news writing & sub editing. Since graduating in 2008 Kathryn has written a vast array of articles on a variety of topics for local, national and international press …

Tweet Thanks to The All Around for linking to some brilliant documents on the Canadian Gymnastics website. The link provided is documents which contain the proposals for code changes from the symposium in Zürich last month.

The were a huge amount of suggestions and recommendations from the different gymnastics federations world wide (Argentina, Australia, Japan, Canada, Chile, China, France, Russia etc) one point that was mentioned a lot was  artistry – on both beam and floor. Here is a quick overview of the suggestions for each apparatus:
Floor
Artistry was mentioned a lot, in fact I …

Tweet I was very excited at the prospect of being able to watch this weekends British Womens Championships online on the British Gymnastics website and was delighted that they have improved so much in the last few months with their online media. This morning I clicked onto the website to have a looked around and came across this:

I’m really disappointed that those of who are outside the UK will not be able to view the competitions online.There will be so many disappointed people from outside the UK who would be …

Tweet Salto Gymnastics Club in Lisburn, Ireland’s only dedicated gymnastics academy has some very exciting news today. It was posted on their Facebook page as breaking news that on July 14th 2 Chinese Olympic Coaches from the Chinese Gymnastics Federation will visit Salto for 4 days. The officials will be checking out the facilities to see if they are suitable for the Chinese Artistic Gymnastics team to train in Salto for their pre Olympic training camp in July 2012.

Very exciting news Salto, lets hope they approve! It would be a …

Tweet Daniel Keatings is an “ambassador” for the supplement “Maximuscle” . You can view Daniel’s profile here along with links to his meal plan and his lean definition training plan.

You can check him and coach Paul Hall out on the advert for Maximuscle. Check out videos of Dan below and Coach Paul Hall.

There are also some other videos
What’s in Dan Keatings fridge
Dan Keatings on gymnastics
Take a tour of Dan’s crib
Quickfire questions
There is currently an advert on UK and Irish television that features Dan among the other athletes who act as …

Tweet Interview with Russian WAG head coach Alexander Alexandrov by Yelena Vaytsekhovskaya for Sport-Ekspress, luckily it’s in English. He discusses Komova, Mustafina, the other top teams in the World and London 2012.

Can you already tell who will be on the team in Tokyo – or should we wait until after the Russian Cup in August?
The official selection will take place there, but unfortunately, I can say that we don’t really have anyone to choose from. Apart from those at Round Lake, we might be able to …

Tweet The drawing lots have been released for the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo. 555 competitors will participate (wow!), 297 Men and 258 women.  The World Championships are the first qualifying event for London 2012. All competitors know that teams must finish in the top 8 to automatically qualify for the Olympics. Those who medal individually on pieces will also go through to the Olympics. Those who do not qualify in Tokyo will have their final chance at the Olympic Test events in London in January 2012. In all 98 …

Tweet Rips or blisters are a big part of a gymnasts life. When our gymnasts get their first blisters, we really make a big deal of it, as do the older girls. Oddly, it makes the girls feel like an “official” or “proper” gymnast. They’ve seen the older and more experienced girls get them, they admire them and feel just like them now that they have developed rips of their own. Some of the little girls can be terrified at the side of seeing their first blister, it’s a little stingy but …

Tweet The British Women’s Championships 2011 will take this weekend (July 9th & 10th) at Liverpool’s Echo Arena – in the home of Liverpool’s own Beth Tweddle and Hannah Whelan. The WAG British Championships is  possibly the most prestigious event in the British Gymnastics calendar.  The question is – can Hannah Whelan retain her 2010 senior title?

Schedule
Day 1 – Saturday
1st Session (Juniors):
Doors open                               10.30
Competition start                   11.30
2nd Session (seniors):
Doors open                     …

Tweet The FIG have issued a warning to Rhythmic Gymnasts regarding a website which is selling non FIG approved products.

FIG Communication: Lausanne (SUI) / FIG Office, July 1, 2011:
We regret to inform that the firm ARTICOLI DANZA, via Marconi 28/D, 25128 Brescia / Italy; Phone/Fax: 39.030.3385420; info@articolidanza.it is selling apparatus for Rhythmic Gymnastics which are not certified by FIG.
Articoli Danza have refused to make the necessary corrections in their website and to refrain from selling their articles which are not “FIG APPROVED” but which they offer as such.
It …