WAG Head Coach Peggy Liddick:
… Australia is determined to defend its team title from the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, she said.
“We’re going out to win the Commonwealth Games, and I’m going to put my best team out there,” …
Gutsy call.
It’s going to be tough for the 5 girls competing in Delhi to fly on to World Championships in Rotterdam for World’s. Two major competitions back-to-back.
England will not be sending their top gymnasts, instead staying focused on World’s.
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The Australian Championships are in progress:
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Beijing Olympian Georgia Bonora has taken out her first national all-around crown and in doing so staked her claim for Commonwealth Games selection at the 2010 Australian Women’s Gymnastics Championships in Perth tonight. …
Doubling as the selection trials for both the 2010 Commonwealth Games and 2010 FIG World Championships – the first qualifying event for the London 2012 Olympics –Australia’s stars are not only vying for national titles but the opportunity to wear the green and gold.
Picking up from where she left off last night, Bonora put in another steady performance at Challenge Stadium, tallying 55.050 for a combined score of 109.375, to defeat Mary-Anne Monckton (104.00) and fellow Beijing Olympian Shona Morgan (103.225). …
Bonora was clearly ecstatic yet surprised by her new national title.
“It feels so strange. I never thought I’d be a national champion. I never thought I was that girl,” said Bonora
“I knew some of our strongest girls weren’t competing but it was still a surprise. I wasn’t really focussed on the results, I just wanted to stay on the apparatus.
“I didn’t compete to the best of my ability out there but I’m still improving. I have a lot of upgrades to add on vault and floor, and I need to clean up my bars and beam.
“It would be so exciting to go to the Commonwealth Games.” …
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