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Louis Smith will be the latest British gymnast to feature on BBC’s series “Olympic Dreams”. Tune into BBC this Saturday at 1pm when Louis Smith will be featured.

Tweet The Scottish Championships 2011 took place in Perth the weekend before  last, the same weekend as the English National Championships. I-Gym has all of the main results from the competition or check out Scottish Gymnastics for more information.
Seniors:
1st Daniel Purvis 86.350
2nd Daniel Keatings 84.750
3rd Ross Souter 54.450
 

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This was Daniel Keatings first competition since returning to training since his reconstruction surgery on his cruciate ligament. Dan did well to place second and cites in his latest blog post that the competition didn’t go as well as …

Tweet Ollie Williams takes us inside Huntingdon Gymnastics Club, home to Daniel Keatings, Sam Oldham and Louis Smith. Ollie was recently filming for a programe set to air on BBC One this Saturday. It’s a nice behind the scenes view of Keatings and Smith training. Thanks Ollie!! Those of us who miss it or can’t watch it on the iPlayer really appreciate this! View below or on YouTube.
 

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Since the announcement that Jordan Wieber will compete at the American Cup this weekend in place of Nicole Hibbert we’ve all been wondering, for what reason? I saw a bit of a buzz about twitter and various forums that she was injured.
 
British Gymnastics issued a press release this morning, confirming Nicole’s injury:
 
British Senior Women’s Artistic gymnast Nicole Hibbert has sustained a serious knee injury that will rule her out of competitive action for a prolonged period of time.
Nicole, who formed part of the British …

Tweet Well, The Telegraph’s guide to Artistic and Rhythmic gymnastics and to trampolining.
London 2012 Olympics:Artistic Gymnastics Guide
A nice synopsis of the history of artistic gymnastics, the apparatus and the rules – explaining that the days of the perfect 10 are behind us. Further down the article it offers some “gymnastics jargon” such as “release”, “salto” and “arabesque”. It offers some more background information on previous Olympians and random facts.

Beth Tweddle, Daniel Keatings, Louis Smith and Daniel Purvis are listed as the “ones to watch”(no Dan Keatings?) and also  cites the …

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Today Beth Tweddle will be featured on BBC 1′s pre Olympic documentary “British Olympic Dreams”. The documentary teams follow Team GB hopefuls in the run up to 2012, focusing on their preparations to date.
I’m sure it’ll be a good show, make sure to tune in. BBC One, 1pm.

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British Gymnastics have just announced that from February 7th they will be launching ‘Excel Coaching Tip of the week’ on BGTV. It sounds like it will be similar to the Gymnastics Minute with tips being given from top GB coaches. A great initiative from BG!
A new Excel Coaching Tip of the week will be released every Monday throughout 2011, with each video being presented by a top GB coach, covering all gymnastics disciplines.
The tips will include examples of conditioning, body preparation, and progressions the coaches use with their …

Tweet And another gymnast is out for the first half of the 2011 season following an Achilles Injury. British Gymnastics reports that Becky Downie suffered the injury in training.

Becky says:
“I am of course very disappointed to have suffered from this injury, but remain very positive about the future and am looking ahead to working hard with the British Gymnastics Medical Team to ensure that I do everything I can to be in a position to return strongly, and continue my journey towards London 2012.”
Can anyone count …

Tweet Flair Gymnastics in the UK are offering a free class trial
Little Miss Gymnast has a list of potential junior GB Squad List members
John Geddert has a new blog post on  Injuries
Rick from Gymnastics Coaching has started a new blog Recreational Gymnastics

Tweet .. Great Britain’s Becky Downie, she turns 19 today!

Tweet This week some British gymnasts were at Lilleshall.  Louis Smith tweeted a picture of a photo shoot in progress, he also tweeted a few days earlier that he was at a GB training camp. British Gymnastics official photographer Alan Edwards of F2 Images tweeted a link to some photos he took of Imogen Cairns and her coach Liz Kincaid at Lilleshall. Click through to view them, Imogen is just beautiful.

Is that a new team GB leotard I see? What do you make of it?

Tweet It seems like reporters were doing the rounds with Louis Smith while he was doing a photo shoot for the BMW London 2012 Performance Team earlier this month.
Louis Smith is featured on More Than The Games. He has said that he is looking no further than the World Championships in Tokyo this year, as such not counting his chickens before they hatch.
“There is always going to be big expectation and pressure of performing in London but ultimately as soon as my hands touch the pommel horse, I won’t be …

Tweet About Gymnastics posted a very large list of gymnasts on Twitter recently. Great Britain’s Jennifer Pinches, Danusia Francis, Becky Downie and Laura Mitchell are all on Twitter as are Louis Smith and Reiss Beckford. There’s nothing hugely interesting or gymnastics related on the girls accounts. Danusia seems to be under going physio at the moment . Louis has just begun using his Twitter account again, posting photos from the BMW London 2012 Performance team shoot.

Louis Smith has a fantastic looking website, like Daniel Keatings, Smith has sponsors – Adidas and …

Tweet Yesterday Great Britain’s Louis Smith joined some other stars of the GBR sporting world to promote BMW as the official automotive partner of the London 2012 Games. The initiative is designed to support the Team GB Olympic and Paralympic athletes as they prepare for the Games.
Initially 12 athletes have been chosen to join the BMW London 2012 Performance Team but the number will rise to 25 over the next few months. Louis Smith is among the first 12 athletes who also include double Paralympic Swimming Champion Ellie Simmonds, World Diving Champion …

Tweet ..to Daniel Keatings!

Dan turns 21 today. He’s really looking forward to returning to competition. The next big event we will see him at will be the European Championships in Berlin in April. Best of luck to Dan!