Tweet The LOGOC have announced that tickets are still available for the London 2012 Test Event next week. Tickets for Visa International Gymnastics are on sale now, priced from £10 for full price tickets and from £5 for young people and seniors. Tickets are available for men’s and women’s Artistic Gymnastics sessions, as well as for Trampoline.

Meanwhile British Gymnastics announced the MAG team who will contend for a place at the Olympics in August. The team is lead by experienced seniors Louis Smith, Daniel Keatings and Daniel Purvis as well as Kristian Thomas, …

Tweet Great Britain’s Daniel Keatings wrote a column for The Telegraph following his uncharacteristically bad form at the World Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo. From reading the column, it  is clear to see that Dan is clearly gutted at the result, as Great Britain’s main objective for the 2011 WCh’s was to qualify for the London 2012 Games.

I am trying to erase the memory of the World Championships from my mind. Nothing went to plan for me and our performance as a team was probably as bad as it gets.

The Worlds …

Tweet Yes the Women’s AA Final might mostly be about should Viktoria Komova have won over Jordyn Wieber but for other nations, it’s how well their gymnasts did, even if they didn’t win a medal.

Great Britain’s Hannah Whelan impressed today, she placed 9th in the Women’s All Around Final, showing consistent form all around.  She began on beam with a nice clean routine which started her off in 8th place out of 24 gymnasts. Moving to floor Hannah put in a beautiful and confident routine, looking like she was really …

Tweet The British MAG team competed this morning in the first subdivision scoring 348.742. It was a tough competition with some uncharacteristic slip ups from this strong team who should make the top 8 and automatically qualify through to the 2012 Olympics.  One definite positive to come from the competition was that Louis Smith will make the Pommel final, scoring 15.600 for is routine. Currently World Champion Krisztian Berki is in first place with 15.866. Dan Purvis currently lies in 6th place in the All Around rankings.

At 1:30pm British time …

Tweet Despite having some pretty rough training session before their qualification competition and not having the best competition possible, the British team of Beth Tweddle, Danusia Francis, Hannah Whelan, Imogen Cairns, Jennifer Pinches and Becky Downie earned their country a spot at the London 2012 Olympics. The girls qualified in 8th place, luckily making the cut.

Teams who have secured a place to London 2012

United States
Russia
China
Romania
Japan
Australia
Germany
Great Britain

The remaining teams who qualified 9th – 16th will compete at the London 202 Test event in January, find out who those teams are here. …

Tweet Sounds like the British boys are getting on great and impressing in Podium Training. Check out videos of Podium Training so far below courtesy of Gymnastike.
Pommel
Dan Purvis

 
Dan Keatings

 
Louis Smith

 
Sam Oldham

 
Floor
Dan Purvis

 
Sam Oldham

Watch more video of World Gymnastics Championships Tokyo 2011 on gymnastike.org

Tweet Tonight Sky Sports will air a special report on Great Britain’s Olympic hopeful Louis Smith. Sky Sports spent a week following Smith around, including spending time with him at a training camp in Lilleshall as well as chatting to other top GB gymnasts including Beth Tweddle.
Sky Sports also get an exclusive look at the routine Smith hopes will win him gold in London next year.  The report will air at 7.30pm GMT tonight. Fingers crossed that someone will be kind enough to put it up on YouTube!

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Tweet Kristian Thomas won the title as British High Bar Master last week at the British Championships. Check out his routine below:

Is this kid good enough to challenge Kohei Uchimura?
Today Kristian was named in the team to represent Great Britain at Worlds in Tokyo.

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 The British Men will take on the Spanish Men in Basildon, UK this weekend in a warm up friendly competition ahead of the World Championships. A strong 10 man British squad will compete featuring Daniel Purvis, Max Whitlock and Reiss Beckford.

 More information via British Gymnastics
Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images AsiaPac

Tweet Two friendly warm up competitions will be held on September 22nd in France. The French women will take on their German counterparts while the French Men will take on their British rivals.
WAG
France 

Rose-Eliandre Bellemare
Mira Boumejmajen
Navy Patent
Youna Dufournet
Clara Della Vedova
Aurélie Malausséna
Sophia Serseri

Germany 

Kim Bui
Anja Rheinbay
Lisa Katharina
Hill Katja Roll 
Nadine Jarosch
Elisabeth Seitz
Pia Tolle

MAG
France

Samir Ait Said
Pierre-Yves Beny
Thomas Bouhail
Cucherat Yann
Gaël Da Silva
Hamilton Sabot
Tommason Cyril
Arnaud Willig
Axel Augis

Great Britain

Daniel Keatings
Sat Holdman
Ruslan Penteleymonov
Daniel Purvis
Kristian Thomas
Max Whitlock

Tweet British Gymnastics has posted a report on the ROM V GBR V POR Friendly which took place this weekend at Lilleshall. Unfortunately the full results aren’t posted, BG has been very busy with the MAG British Championships this weekend so hopefully they will post them soon. The Romanian Gymnastics Federation might also post them.

Great Britain won the team competition with 229.45 whilst Romania scored 227.90. In the All Around competition, Hannah Whelan  was first (57.95) followed by Amelia Racea (57.30) and Ana Porgras (57.05). Today, Sunday was the apparatus finals …

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 …Selection for the World Championships teams will be confirmed week beginning September 26th, the Sports Journalist Association announced in it’s post detailing the upcoming media open day at Lilleshall.

Ahead of the 2011 world championships in Tokyo (October 7-16), media are invited to attend a training session for both the men’s and women’s artistic gymnastics squads on Wednesday September 14 at Lilleshall National Sports Centre, Shropshire, TF10 9NB.
This Media Day will be the only chance to photograph, interview and film the gymnasts and performance director. Those attending will include:
British Gymnastics …

Tweet The third in a series of posts looking into Great Britain’s potential Worlds 2011 and London 2012 team. This weeks edition features the newbie Rebecca Tunney who will be eligible to compete in the London 2012 Olympics.

History
Rebecca was born on 26th October 1996. At aged five she gave up ballet to focus on gymnastics, a difficult choice for someone of such a young age but she enjoyed gymnastics more. She is currently coached by Claire Duffy at Liverpool Gymnastics Club, training 25 hours a week. Rebecca didn’t start out …