Tweet Congrats to Beth. I’m still amazed at the difficulty of her bar routine. Many thanks to Missrm23 for your videos on YouTube.

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Congratulations Team GB for a fantastic European Gymnastics Championships! The women’s team won the silver medal at the European Championships today. I’ve read a lot of reports and reviews from the competition but my favorite has got to be from BBC Sports Ollie Williams who I often link to. I’ve been following Ollie’s tweets during the week and it seems that he has really fallen in love with gymnastics. His report oozes of pride and sheer delightment.

For those in the UK and Ireland who don’t have access to …

Tweet BBC’s Ollie Williams has updated his blog with a new post about Beth Tweddle.  Read it here.

The European Gymnastics Championships are only halfway through and, already, Britain’s men have torn up records books on their way to team silver and an individual gold for Daniel Keatings. The woman everyone now expects to keep this British run of form going is ol’ reliable herself, Beth Tweddle.
Tweddle, double European gold medallist in Milan last year (in her two specialist events, the floor and asymmetric bars), went on to win the floor …

Tweet Following on from Albert’s excellent post yesterday covering the WAG Junior Podium Training, he has posted another very detailed post from the WAG Senior Podium Training. Thanks again Albert, I’m really enjoying how concise your reports are.
It seems the Ukraine and Spain are suffering injury blows, what  a pity.

Spain suffered the injury of beam/floor specialist, Thais Escolar, just before leaving Madrid to Birmingham.

Another team that suffered the lost of one of their best gymnasts was Belgium, Aagje Vanwalleghem had to withdraw from the Championships after suffering a new knee injury.

Tweet The All Around Gymnastics News posted a brilliant detailed review of the WAG Junior Podium training from the European Championships in Birmingham today. Many thanks to Albert for your excellent  and extensive post, I really enjoyed reading it in so much detail!

Tweet UEG have posted a nice report with results of the MAG European Championship results in Birmingham.
View the report here
The European Champions 2010: Matthias Fahrig GER, floor, Daniel Keatings GBR, pommel horse, Matteo Morandi ITA, rings, Tomi Tuuha FIN, vault (big surprise), Yann Cucherat, parallel bars, and Vlasios Maras GRE, high bar.

Tweet Following on from BBC radio DJ Chris Evans’ attempt at doing gymnastics, we have Russ Morris of BRMB 96.4 FM trying his hand at gymnastics while he meets team GB’s Kristian Thomas and discusses the European Championships.

Tweet As we all know due to the volcanic ash disruption, some teams have not been able to make the European Championships in Birmingham. An updated list of competitors has been released. They are as follows:
MAG Seniors (updated Thursday 12.00)
Armenia – Austria – Azerbaijan – Belarus – Belgium – Bulgaria – Croatia – Cyprus – Czech Republic – Denmark – Espana – Finland – France – Great Britain – Georgia – Germany – Greece – Hungary – Ireland – Iceland – Israel – Italy – Latvia – Lithuania – …

Tweet British Gymnastics are doing a really excellent job at keeping their website up to date with the latest news from the competition. Here is the latest post from them, the British Junior Boys are doing well. I really suggest keeping an eye on the website to get the latest news from the British Team.

Tweet Irish MAG delegation beat the ash
BBC’s Ollie Williams on British male gymnasts have plenty to prove
European Gymnastics Championships with a preview of the Mens Competition
A travel update from the European Gymnastics Championships:
Thirty teams are now in Birmingham or set to arrive in the next 24 hours and preparing  to compete at the European Gymnastics Championships. So far the following teams are on site or confirmed to be travelling to Birmingham:
Great Britain, Ireland, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Netherlands, Germany, Azerbaijan, Denmark, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Monaco, Luxembourg, …

Tweet Longines have launched a website which will provide the results of the European Gymnastics Championships. You can view the website here . Mens Junior results will be available here. Mens YOG Qualifications will be available here and Mens Seniors here. That’s all that is up so far, there currently aren’t any links for the upcoming women’s results.

The following Rhythmic results will also be available:

Individual Juniors
Individual Juniors YOG
Individual Seniors
Group Seniors
Group Juniors YOG

Via British Gymnastics

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I came across a Twitter Page for the Artistic European Gymnastics Championships this evening. It’s currently posting the same updates as the official website but maybe during the competition tweets might pick up.

Tweet The BBC have posted a video on the website with Paul Garber (Vice President of European gymnastics and President of British gymnastics) speaking about how some teams have managed to over come the disruption the volcanic ash has caused.
Competitors have shown great “spirit and camaraderie” by endeavouring to get to Birmingham ahead of the European Gymnastic Championships despite the volcanic ash cloud that has grounded planes around the continent.

Tweet BBC have posted information on their website of the sport they will be covering on television over the weekend. The coverage details are subject to change but below is the proposed coverage. Unfortunately it is only available via the red button, which is pretty crap for those of us in the UK and Ireland who don’t have it. Hopefully we can catch it online.
Men’s European Championships
Saturday 24 April
1350-1730, BBC Red Button/online

Sunday 25 April
1335-1730, BBC Red Button/online

Women’s European Championships
Saturday 1 May
1500-1730, BBC Red Button/online

Sunday 2 May
1500 – 1730, BBC Red …

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The UEG have announced nominative entries for the 29th European Championships in mens artistic gymnastics. The competition is to be held from April 21st to 25th in Birmingham, UK.

A total of 151 senior and 149 junior gymnasts will compete in the different competitions of these championships. In the senior category, 28 teams are entered plus some individual gymnasts. The ECh in Birmingham will offer the possibility to discover the generation of the 2012 OG and, with regard to the juniors, the generation of the YOG 2010 and 2014 and …