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Tweet Beth Tweddle would. Beth talks to More Than The Games about Great Britains most successful World Gymnastics Championships to date and what winning an Olympic medal would mean.
Team mate Louis Smith won a bronze medal at the Beijing Games in 2008, helping to boost the reputation of gymnastics in Great Britain, thus meaning that Gymnastics saw its budget for London 2012 boosted by more than £1m after the Games – adding currency to the debate that for UK Sport, the government agency responsible for distributing National Lottery funding, …
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Tweet I came across an article in The Independent on Sunday by Alan Hubbard. Beth Tweddle discusses Spelbound, her company “Total Gymnastics” and the 2012 Olympics.
Tweddle, the best gymnast Britain has ever produced, who came away with two individual golds and a team silver, puts it down to “a new belief, particularly among the younger gymnasts, hard work, the right coaching and Lottery funding”.
The 25-year-old “Tweds” has become the sport’s talisman having made her international debut in 2001 and winning Commonwealth, European and two …

