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Tweet More gymnastics Test Event Tickets have gone on sale today! Go get ‘em!!
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London 2012 Press Release

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 It has been an anxious wait for Salto National Gymnastics Centre in Lisburn, Northern Ireland but today they could finally announce that the centre will host the 2012 Training Camp for the Chinese Olympic Team.  After a visit by Chinese coaches Xiong Jingbin and Jin Weiguo  in mid July, Salto have managed to secure the MAG and WAG Chinese Olympic Teams for a 2012 holding camp in July prior to the London 2012 Games. The Chinese delegation of 30 people will base themselves in Lisburn for 10 days next summer.

A press …

Tweet The USA will not be placing bids to host the 2020 Olympics Games, it has emerged today.

There will be no bid from the United States for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics it has been officially confirmed after the seven cities which had expressed an interest in putting themselves forward were told over the weekend to forget it.
The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) contacted Chicago, Dallas, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York City and Tulsa to tell them that they had decided if they would miss this campaign following …

Tweet …until the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics. It’s strange to think that this time next year we will know who our new All Around and Event Olympic Champions are.

Who will be the next WAG All Around Olympic Champion
Who will be Queen of the Bars?
Who will own the Beam?
Can Alicia Sacramone add to her World title on Vault and become Olympic Champion?
Is Uchimura on course to be the next MAG All Around Champion or who can knock him off course?
Leave a comment with you predictions below.
Follow all of the 2012 …

Tweet Scotland announces it’s team for the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games, due to take place on the Isle of Man 7-12 September 2011. The below have Been selected to compete:

Carpenter, Jamie - Newcastle - 14yrs
Davie, Liam - Cambroe, ML5 - 18yrs
Ross, Douglas - Johnstone, PA5 - 17yrs
Archer, Shannon - Edinburgh, EH52 - 13yrs
Kennedy, Cara - Paisley, PA2 - 13yrs
Smith, Carly - Glasgow,GA15 - 14yrs

Russia’s Junior Anastasia Grishina has a new official website
Luke Folwell the most successful British gymnast in Commonwealth Games history is on the road to recovery after injuring his shoulder and is now focusing on London 2012. He hopes to …

Tweet It is now less than a year to go before London hosts the 2012 Olympic Games, awful scenes of rioting and looting just a few miles from the main Olympic sites have raised huge concerns about security and policing for the event.The unrest started on Saturday night in the Tottenham area of north London following a a police shooting of a civilian on Thursday night, details are this shooting are sketchy.  Yesterday the violence spread much closer to the Olympic site when violent scenes broke out in the Hackney …

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.

The big event this week was the European Youth Olympic Festival in Trazbon, Turkey. It was at the previous EYOF in 2009 that the gymnastics world had it’s first proper …

Tweet Indian Gymnastics
Silver and Bronze Commonwealth Games medalist Asish Kumar and the MAG Indian team are currently training in England with Coach Vladimir Cherktov. After crisitcising Kumar for not winning more medals, the Gymnastics Federation of India is doing all it can to support the gymnasts. The MAG have been training at the  Basildon Sporting Village in Essex from July 8 and  will  continue to do so until August 30, this is with the hope of performing well at the World Championships in October.So it seems that Cherktov is still coaching the team …

Tweet Today is July 27th 2011, marking that we are one year out from the kick off of the London 2012 Olympic Games. On this day next year the official Opening Ceremony of the 30th Olympic Games will take place.In fact it is 366 days to as 2012 is a leap year. A few events are taking place today to mark the occasion, the media have been invited to see some of the venues, the medal designs are due to be revealed and Britain’s Tom Daley will make the first …

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 The Russian Gymnastics Federation has a few new updates online about the russian gymnasts.
Viktoria Komova
Is said to be returning to full training in 2 weeks time since surgery on her ankle some months ago. Apparently Komova has had 2 surgeries on her ankle and described how her injuries occurred:
Komova said that the recovery process after the first injury lasted about six weeks, but after the second injury, she could not train for two months. “I was performing a skill and took a step back and twisted my leg — …

Tweet London 2012 Olympic Athletes have been  issued with social media etiquette ahead of 2012 games. The International Olympics Committee (IOC) has issued a document of guidelines for athletes “IOC Social Media, Blogging and Internet Guidelines for participants and other accredited persons at the London 2012 Olympic Games“.
Athletes at the Olympics will be allowed to blog and post updates on Twitter but could face disciplinary measures if their musings breach guidelines. Competitors may only post updates in the “first person” type but should not report on events. Whilst the IOC does actively encourage and …