Tweet After Great Britain’s Men’s team secured their place at the London 2012 Olympics Daniel Keatings described the qualifying competition as a very emotional event. The crowd roared as Team GB secured their place, 7 marks higher than France in second place, and the gymnasts could finally breath a sigh of relief having spent long days in the gym in Lilleshall over the Christmas period.
It was amazing, especially the support from the home crowd. We had to pull together as a team after Tokyo and over the Christmas period, which …

Tweet The excitement last night in the North Greenwich Arena was unreal, the British men’s team of Daniel Purvis, Dan Keatings, Louis Smith, Kristian Thomas, Ruslan Panteleymonov and Max Whitlock began on High Bar in top form setting the tone for the evening.  Dan Keatings was first up and there was no way a repeat of Tokyo, in fact after this performance Tokyo is long forgotten. The team nailed 5 strong high bar routines, not a foot out of place on the dismounts. They produced another 5 high quality routines …

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 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 …

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Team Final Results
The top 8 have qualified through to the London 2012 Olympics. Those listed 9 – 16 will compete in London in January at the 2012 Test Event.

Event Finalists:

Individual All Around Results:

Tweet After a rough qualification session first thing this morning, the British Men suffered a long and agonizing wait to hear their fate. Spectacularly uncharacteristic falls and slip ups from Kristian Thomas and Daniel Keatings brought the team score down. At the end of subdivision 5, they were ranking in 6th position with China, France, Canada, Australia and Korea still to compete. After subdivision 7, they slipped to 7th place.
As per the rules only the top 8 can qualify can automatically qualify to the London Olympics. Every team taking part here are …

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 Last month we posted that the 2011 MAG British Championships will take place this month. British Gymnastics have released the schedule for the event. The Championships will take place this weekend September 16th – 18th in Fenton Manor Sports Complex, Stoke on Trent.
British Gymnastics expect the senior AA competition to be tough and interesting with Daniel Keatings, Daniel Purvis, Sam Hunter, Sam Oldham, Kristian Thomas and Ruslan Panteleymonov all in contention for the title. Also expected to win titles and make big impressions are Max Whitlock, Louis Smith, Reiss Beckford, Courtney …

Tweet Louis Smith is blogging for Sky Sports news in the run up to the 2012 Olympics.
The Telegraph has an interview with Daniel Keatings
FanGymnastics has information on the Romanian Nationals competition

Tweet Daniel Keatings speaks to Inside The Games. He explains that his ACL injury may have in fact been a blessing in disguise and it may contribute to helping him win gold at the London 2012 Olympic Games. As a good AA gymnast, Keatings says he is planning to try to deter expected winner, Kohei Uchimura from retaining his title.
Nastia Liukin may be in training. It’s hard to know from what you read today against what you will read tomorrow. Blythe Lawrence had a go at deciphering her tweets.
Great Britains …

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It was confirmed this week that Russia’s new senior gymnast Viktoria Komova will compete in her first competition since becoming injured late last year. In May, Komova had surgery on …

Tweet Daniel Keatings is an “ambassador” for the supplement “Maximuscle” . You can view Daniel’s profile here along with links to his meal plan and his lean definition training plan.

You can check him and coach Paul Hall out on the advert for Maximuscle. Check out videos of Dan below and Coach Paul Hall.

There are also some other videos
What’s in Dan Keatings fridge
Dan Keatings on gymnastics
Take a tour of Dan’s crib
Quickfire questions
There is currently an advert on UK and Irish television that features Dan among the other athletes who act as …

Tweet Elaine Koon to quit?
Daniel Keatings will compete at the annual invitational competition between GB and Japan
The organisers of the World Championships in Tokyo have released yet another load of newsletters stating that Japan is safe to host the event in October
The German men’s team have withdrawn from July’s Japan Cup due to the unclear situation in Tokyo
Gymnastics Coaching site editor Rick Mc Charles will be making his way over to us here in Ireland for a coaching work shop in Renmore Gymnastics Club in June

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 …