Tweet According to International Gymnast, the Chinese Worlds teams has been confirmed by the Chinese Gymnastics Association. They are said to be as follows:
MAG 

Chen Yibing
Teng Haibin
Feng Zhe
Zhang Chenglong
Lu Bo
Guo Weiyang
Zou Kai  (alternate)

WAG

Jiang Yuyuan
He Kexin
Sui Lu
Tan Sixin
Wu Liufang
Yao Jinnan
Huang Qiushuang (alternate)

So how do these names compare to the nominative list that was announced earlier this week? Well, the WAG team has not changed. Deng Linlin is nowhere to be seen and Qiushuang  is still listed as the reserve. 2008 Olympic Gold medalist He Kexin is named again in this years Worlds Team. I …

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.
First off, Full Twist must apologise for the lack of fluid and regular updates over the last 2 weeks, as explained we are on vacation and should be home by …

Tweet Last weekend, there were various reports circulating about former Chinese  gymnast  Zhang Shangwu who is living on the streets  in China and begging for money. A few blogs and gymnastics news websites picked up on the story – Gymnastics Examiner, International Gymnast – which has helped to draw interest to Shangwu’s situation.
It seems now that things may be looking up for Shangwu thanks to the  media coverage that has been drawn to him since a passerby took a photograph of him during a street performance;
A non-profit organization, and the owner …

Tweet Below are a few videos from the recent Japan Cup of the Chinese girls looking great. It’s been a while since I’ve seen anything from the Chinese girls, they’re looking great.
Huang Qiushuang VT

Yao Jinnan UB

Yang Yilin VT

Yang Yilin UB

Huang Qiushuang FX

Is it just me or does Qiushuang look older and a bit taller?
You can view these and other videos from the Korean Cup on YouTube User zihan0107′s channel.
 

Tweet Earlier this month Full Twist announced the fantastic news that two Olympic Chinese Coaches were planning a visit to Salto National Gymnastics Centre in Northern Ireland with the view to using the venue as for their Pre-Olympic training camp next year.  Coaches Xiong Jingbin and Jin Weiguo arrived in Ireland yesterday to begin their visit to Salto and hosted a coaching masterclass for the gymnasts in the club.
 Xiong Jingbin and Jin Weiguo currently train the Chinese Olympic gymnastics team, but called into the Salto National Gymnastics Centre in Lisburn to …

Tweet Salto Gymnastics Club in Lisburn, Ireland’s only dedicated gymnastics academy has some very exciting news today. It was posted on their Facebook page as breaking news that on July 14th 2 Chinese Olympic Coaches from the Chinese Gymnastics Federation will visit Salto for 4 days. The officials will be checking out the facilities to see if they are suitable for the Chinese Artistic Gymnastics team to train in Salto for their pre Olympic training camp in July 2012.

Very exciting news Salto, lets hope they approve! It would be a …

Tweet This is a news report of the Chinese Men’s team preparing for the World Championships in October. If anyone can provide a translation, please feel free to leave below in the comments.

Tweet All Voices have short report on  Li Xiaoshuan’s Gymnastics School, Xiantao in the Hubei province. Gymnasts such as Li Xiaoshuang (gold Barcelona 1992 & Atlanta 1996), Zheng Li (Gold Sydney 2000) and Yang Wei (Team gold Sydney 2000) have attended the school.
 
Most students in this school are the kids at a very young age. According to the report, 80% of their parents are the one who work in business so they rarely have enough time to take care of their children. For that reason, they leave the kids in …

Tweet Youtube User Komova2012 uploaded this video on the winter training updates of  Cheng Fei, He Kexin, Yang Yilin, Chenglong Zhang, Chen Yibing and Zou Kai.

They have also been so great as to provide a brief translation in the video description:
Narrator: All training start with pitfall. Winter training means everyone upgrading their start value. If the training is good, then there might be massive improvement.
Zhang ChengLong: I upgrade too many areas. Feel like time is so short(time is fast in training) It is hard but I …

Tweet A great new article from BBC Sport’s Ollie Williams. At the weekend he posted this picture of the Chinese Women’s Coach “being grilled” by the media as to why the Chinese Women wouldn’t be bringing home any gold medals from Worlds, the first time this has happened since 2002. It’s easy to say, duh, Huang and Kexin fell from the bars in the Individual Apparatus Finals and almost handed Beth Tweddle the World title.

Ollie discusses how gymnastics in China is perceived, age falsification, China’s response on being beaten …

Tweet Watch below or on click on the video title to watch on YouTube.
Bars

Vault

Jiang Yuyuan – Floor

Sui Lu – Floor

Huang Qiushuang – Floor

Sui Lu – Beam

Linlin Deng – Beam

Tweet From the start Russia, USA and China were the favourites to medal, and that they did.

Gold: Russia 175.397

Silver: USA 175.196

Bronze: China 174.781

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to view it online or via the Red Button but those who could see the competition reported a lot of falls Mitchell, Cairns, Hibbert and Bonara to name (just) a few. Out of the 3 winning teams, they clocked up 6 falls between them, surprising after such clean routines in qualifiers.The British girls got off to a bad start and never seemed to …

Tweet I was doing some reading on nutrition this morning and came across this old link from the LA Times from 2008. You may have seen it before, I haven’t. In the below image the LA Times compares the height, weight, age of the 2008 Olympic USA and Chinese Women’s Teams. They wonder does the age requirement in Olympic Gymnastics give  the young and mostly smaller Chinese gymnasts an advantage.

We could discuss the possibility that these “sixteen” year old’s are lying about their age but let’s leave that out …

Tweet This article appeared today on the Daily Mail UK website. It mainly features pictures of children training in gyms in China and reports on how the children are “contorted into the most uncomfortable positions.” Apparently Chinese officials have insisted that tough new eligibility rules will end the type of ‘age cheat’ scandal which resulted in Dong Fangxiao and the Sydney 2000 Chinese Team being tripped of their bronze medals.

Whilst perhaps the Chinese way of coaching may be tougher, it certainly does get results. If you read the comments below the short …

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BBC Sport have posted this article regarding the Chinese age scandal from 2000 Olympic Games where China were stripped of their women’s team bronze  as Dong Fangxiao was found to be 14 years old – two years too young to compete in the Games.
The Chinese officials have promised to enforce rigorous checks and processes to verify their gymnasts ages. These processes such as  x-ray bone analyses have already come into action for the upcoming Youth Olympics in Singapore where the delegation have gone through stringent checks.
Two age scandals …