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British Gymnastics World Teams announced
Sep 3rd

Women’s Artistic
Beth Tweddle
Rebecca Downie
Danusia Francis
Nicole Hibbert
Jennifer Pinches
Hannah WhelanMen’s Artistic
Sam Hunter
Ruslan Panteleymonov
Dan Purvis
Theo Seager
Louis Smith
Kristian Thomas
Great to see Danusia Francis, Jennifer Pinches and Nicole Hibbert included in the Women’s team but no Daniel Keatings in the Men’s Team. What do you make of the selection?
Little Links 26/8/10
Aug 26th
A new blogs (at least, to me!) – Elite Gymnastics Stars and The Split Leap
The “40 Hottest Gymnasts of All Time”
Boris Pilkin – The Man Behind Khorkina
World Gymnastics Championships 2010 – Tickets being dispatched soon!
Draw concluded for World Championships 2010
Jul 24th
Today FIG began to draw the lots for the Artistic World Championships 2010. Many thanks to The Couch Gymnast who have posted the WAG qualifying round.
Subdivision 1 -ITA, CHN, ARG, MX1
Subdivision 2 -JPN, NZL, SLO, UKR
Subdivision 3 -POL, ROU, BRA, ISR
Subdivision 4 -ISL, IND, SIN, BLR
Subdivision 5 -AUS, DEN, MX3, GRE
Subdivision 6 -RUS, SWE, FRA, GBR
Subdivision 7 -HUN, USA, RSA, PRK
Subdivision 8 -CAN, COL, AUT, CZE
Subdivision 9 -ESP, POR, BEL, ECU
Subdivision 10 -SUI, KOR, TUR, MX4
Subdivision 11 -MEX, GER
Subdivision 12 -UZB, NED, MX2, FIN
Straight From The Horses Mouth Part 4
May 27th
The World Gymnastics Championships 2010 has continued on publishing “Straight From The Horses Mouth”. Part 4 has now arrived, and updates us on how Beth Tweddle, Ariella Kaeslin and Diego Hypolito are preparing for the competition
Beth Tweddle
Reigning world champ on floor Beth Tweddle is enjoying the rise of the British men, and not just because she enjoys seeing her home country do well at competitions. What with her male colleagues now sharing the limelight and helping her share the burden of expectations, Tweddle is feeling less pressure to do well, which she says is helping her. ‘A few years ago, when we went to a major championships, it was a case of “what result can Beth come home with?” But now it’s more about “what result can British Gymnastics achieve?” The boys have been getting lots of great results on the international circuit for some time and so the pressure has been taken off me and is shared between us, which is nice.’
Tweddle has indicated she intends to stick with the two-events-only strategy she adopted after the Beijing Olympics. Like last year, she will compete bars and floor only at the world championships. However, there are a few changes in the works. For one thing, she is going to get a new floor routine soon. ‘If you do the same thing over and over again it just gets boring, so straight after the Europeans I’m going to change it and get a new choreographer,’ she said. ‘Hopefully, it will put a bit more pizzazz back into my life.’
The 25-year-old is now gearing herself up for the world championships in Rotterdam in October, but as the gymnast explains, she will have to miss the Commonwealth Games because of a calendar clash. ‘Unfortunately the world championships clash with the Commonwealth Games, so for myself I’m hoping to go to the World Championships. All our funding is based on our World Championship results, not our Commonwealths. So our A team will travel out to Rotterdam for the worlds and the B team plus the two reserves from the A team will go to the Commonwealth Games. It works in a good way, as the B team will be the younger seniors who will also be eligible for 2012 and are not quite ready this year. They’ll get the experience of a major championships. Hopefully that will bode well for the future for us.’
The fact that at age 25, she will be one of the oldest female gymnasts competing in Rotterdam, doesn’t bother Tweddle. ‘Age doesn’t really come into it. It’s just an extra number. I’m still out there, still enjoying it and still getting the results.’ So what’s keeping her going? Why, her dream of winning a gold medal at the 2012 Olympics, of course. ‘A lot of people have said, “Why do you keep going?” The motivation is I’ve still got one dream to achieve and that’s 2012, hopefully. We’ll see what happens, and I think with age comes experience.’
Straight from the Horse’s Mouth
Apr 29th
As previously mentioned, the official site of the 2010 World Gymnastics Championships have been featuring regular posts about the gymnasts and teams who will compete in the Worlds later this year. Today they have published their third instalment focusing on gymnasts Sandra Izbaşa, Anastasia Koval, Yann Cucherat, Cheng Fei, Larrissa Miller, Shona Morgan and Aagje Vanwalleghem have been coping with injuries and how it may affect their chances of competing in the competition. As always, it’s a great read.
Click here to read the full article.
Chinese gymnast Cheng Fei:
According to Chinese women’s head coach Lu Shanzhen, perennial fan favourite Cheng Fei is recovering well from the knee injury which has kept her out of action for about a year now. ‘Cheng Fei has basically recovered from her injury. She can already successfully complete regular training sessions, but she can’t train very intense and difficult skills yet,’ Lu recently told HNCE. He indicated that he expects his star to make a comeback some time next year.
Volunteers Needed for 2010 Worlds
Apr 7th
The organisers of the 2010 Worlds are now recruiting enthusiastic volunteers who wish to help make the event a success. If you wish to volunteer or find out more information, visit the 2010 Worlds website.