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Make sure to check out the official British Gymnastics Facebook page. There’s some excellent photos from the European Championships

Tweet As we all know due to the volcanic ash disruption, some teams have not been able to make the European Championships in Birmingham. An updated list of competitors has been released. They are as follows:
MAG Seniors (updated Thursday 12.00)
Armenia – Austria – Azerbaijan – Belarus – Belgium – Bulgaria – Croatia – Cyprus – Czech Republic – Denmark – Espana – Finland – France – Great Britain – Georgia – Germany – Greece – Hungary – Ireland – Iceland – Israel – Italy – Latvia – Lithuania – …

Tweet The BBC have posted a video on the website with Paul Garber (Vice President of European gymnastics and President of British gymnastics) speaking about how some teams have managed to over come the disruption the volcanic ash has caused.
Competitors have shown great “spirit and camaraderie” by endeavouring to get to Birmingham ahead of the European Gymnastic Championships despite the volcanic ash cloud that has grounded planes around the continent.

Tweet BBC have posted information on their website of the sport they will be covering on television over the weekend. The coverage details are subject to change but below is the proposed coverage. Unfortunately it is only available via the red button, which is pretty crap for those of us in the UK and Ireland who don’t have it. Hopefully we can catch it online.
Men’s European Championships
Saturday 24 April
1350-1730, BBC Red Button/online

Sunday 25 April
1335-1730, BBC Red Button/online

Women’s European Championships
Saturday 1 May
1500-1730, BBC Red Button/online

Sunday 2 May
1500 – 1730, BBC Red …

Tweet With all of the travel chaos that’s going on at the moment, I’ve been keeping an eye online to see how it all pans out for the upcoming European Championships. The All Around is posting some great updates on their Facebook fan page.
British Gymnastics are also doing great at keeping their site updated this weekend with reports of who has arrived etc.

Tweet New Blog (at least to me!) GymFinity
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BBC Sports Ollie Williams was at Lilleshall last night with a film crew, taking footage of the British National Squad who are in preparation for the European Championships later this month
I must congratulate Blythe on her excellent coverage of the French International last weekend. There’s lots to read about the whole weekend on the Gymnastics Examiner

Tweet BG have posted an update on their website announcing the Nominative Women’s Teams to represent Great Britain at the 2010 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships

Senior Gymnasts
Beth Tweddle (Liverpool)
Rebecca Downie (Nottingham)
Nicole Hibbert (Heathrow)
Niamh Rippin (Nottingham)
Danusia Francis (Heathrow)

Junior Gymnasts
Laura Mitchell (Heathrow)
Lizzie Beddoe (Cardiff Central)
Rebecca Tunney (Liverpool)
Ruby Harrold (The Academy)
Venus Romaeo (Cardiff Central)