Tweet With the Test Event coming up in London next week, the British Press is full of stories about Britain’s top gymnasts.
Star gymnasts from Team GB, Canada and Australia train in Lowestoft.
GB men set for Olympic Gymnastics qualifier at London Test Event.
Keatings is hoping to rock the O2 once again.
Beth Tweddle: my coach is the reason I’m in the running for London 2012 .
London 2012: Lowestoft gym hosts Australian and Canadian hopefuls.
Happy reading!

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Tweet The wait was nowhere near as excruciating as the USA’s Worlds Team announcement, although it was a couple of days late but we knew that it would be Friday lunchtime as the BG media team had let us know on Twitter.
The WAG team was announced as:

Beth Tweddle
Danusia Francis
Hannah Whelan
Imogen Cairns
Jennifer Pinches
Laura Edwards
Becky Downie

So, let’s take a look at one of the Worlds best gymnastics nations like we did with the USA’s Worlds Team. British Gymnastics currently has a Performance Squad of 16 senior gymnasts. The above mentioned all feature in the …

Tweet Full Twist’s “Meet The Gymnast” series has been on a bit of a break since our extended vacation in August / September due to Hurricane Irene.  So far our series have met British Champion Hannah Whelan, the comeback kid Imogen Cairns and new senior Rebecca Tunney.
The fourth in a series of posts looking into Great Britain’s potential Worlds 2011 and London 2012 team. This weeks edition features the newly returned from injury Niamh Rippin. 
Niamh Rippin, born 30th March 1994 from Southwell in Notts. Niamh, a member of the British …

Tweet Wow!

Via Going for Gold.

Tweet This weekly round up aims to give a synopsis of the week in news. If you haven’t already subscribed to Full Twist by adding the URL to your Google Reader or by entering your email address in the subscribe button on the website, then you may be missing out on some of the exciting gymnastics news.  You can also follow Full Twist on  Twitter and Facebook to keep up with the news.
It was another busy week with many competitions taking place ahead of the World Championships. Nations continued with the trend of warm up friendly competitions to use as trials to …

Tweet Louis Smith has joined the logistics company UPS as its fourth ambassador for the London 2012 Olympic Games as the company passed another logistics milestone by handling its 250,000th item for next years big event. Louis joins Ben Ainslie, Denise Lewis and Steve Rider as ambassadors for UPS, a Tier One London 2012 sponsor.

The London 2012 Games will be the largest single peacetime logistical undertaking in the world and the quarter million items that have arrived so far include:
• Delivery and assembly of the BMX starting gate, delivered into the BMX …

Tweet Great Britain’s Beth Tweddle, Hannah Whelan, Becky Downie, Becky Wing, Laura Jones, Imogen Cairns and Marissa King will feature in a film which willl be aired on BBC 2 this Saturday at 1.30pm. The film “The Gymnast” shows the girls on their journey to the 2008 Beijing Games.
Between January and July 2008, a film crew from Prospect Pictures (working in conjunction with BBC Films), directed by BAFTA winner Anthony Wonke, were given privileged access to the British women’s artistic squad and its coaches and support staff as they prepared …

Tweet This weekly round up aims to give a synopsis of the week in news. If you haven’t already subscribed to Full Twist by adding the URL to your Google Reader or by entering your email address in the subscribe button on the website, then you may be missing out on some of the exciting gymnastics news.  You can also follow Full Twist on  Twitter and Facebook to keep up with the news.

The big event this week was the European Youth Olympic Festival in Trazbon, Turkey. It was at the previous EYOF in 2009 that the gymnastics world had it’s first proper …

Tweet Indian Gymnastics
Silver and Bronze Commonwealth Games medalist Asish Kumar and the MAG Indian team are currently training in England with Coach Vladimir Cherktov. After crisitcising Kumar for not winning more medals, the Gymnastics Federation of India is doing all it can to support the gymnasts. The MAG have been training at the  Basildon Sporting Village in Essex from July 8 and  will  continue to do so until August 30, this is with the hope of performing well at the World Championships in October.So it seems that Cherktov is still coaching the team …

Tweet The Telegraph newspaper published 20 questions with Beth Tweddle. It’s not too exciting, mostly non – gymnastics questions but everyone loves Beth Tweddle!

TS: What is your present state of mind?

BT: I’m very happy. I got some pleasing results at the European Championships so I’m in a good frame of mind.

TS: Is your London 2012 build-up on track?

BT: Definitely. Hopefully it can keep going on the up. I’ve got to keep working closely with my coach and the medical staff but I’m really looking forward to it.
TS: When did you …

Tweet Well, it seems this morning was a morning of interviews for Beth Tweddle. Not only did she have radio interviews, she also stopped by Sky News early this morning to discuss London 2012. Watch the interview here.

Here is what Beth has to say about retaining her European title with her new bar routine:
“British sport at the minute is on the up, everybody’s ready for the 2012 Games. Everyone’s ready to make that final step up. To reach the Olympics is everyone’s dream but to have it with that home crowd …

Tweet Gymnastics Examiner and International Gymnast have so far been doing a fantastic job of live blogging from the podium training at Europeans this week. Yesterday began with the Women’s Podium Training. Beth Tweddle and Hannah Whelan were in the later slot to Jennifer Pinches and Danusia Francis and trained yesterday evening.
The reports from the live blogs showed that Beth seemed to be having some trouble yesterday, a little on bars and more on floor.

From Gymnastics Examiner yesterday:
7:32 p.m.: Tweddle, floor: 1.5 to Arabian double front, rather heavy landing …

Tweet The British media has been a flurry for the past week or so with news of their gymnasts ahead of the European Championships.
Louis Smith and coach Paul Hall are raising the bar
I absolutely love this piece from The Telegraph, it’s very honest from both Paul Halls side and Louis Smiths side.
When I was young I was probably the worst kind of kid to coach: the problem child from hell. I had ADHD, a short attention span and I was just crazy.
I hate it now when I meet someone like …

Tweet The tickets for the WAG British Championships went on sale today at 9am. The competition will be held in Liverpool this year in the Echo Arena on July 9th and 10th, the venue can hold over 3,000 spectators so there’s sure to be a fantastic atmosphere when Beth Tweddle and Hannah Whelan take to the competition floor.

Tickets are priced at £15 adult & £10 children and are available on the Echo Arena website or by calling the box office on 0844 8000 400. Find more information on British Gymnastics.

Tweet Yahoo Sport have interviewed Britain’s most successful gymnast Beth Tweddle ahead of the European Championships in a weeks time.

Beth has a new bar routine it seems:
How are you preparing for the European Championships? Is all the hard work done or have you got a lot still to do before it starts next week?
Beth Tweddle: I’m almost ready – it’s slightly different this year [Beth is the defending European champion on uneven bars and the floor] because everything is building up to 2012. I have a new routine on the …