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Everyone in the Press box super impressed with Team Belgium.

Clean, smart routines. Well prepared to hit routines.

Sitting 8th as a team (so far), ahead of Germany they’ll certainly advance to the Test Competition in Rio.

Belgium finished 13th just missing London. I’m predicting they’ll qualify a full team for Rio. That would be their first team Olympic appearance.

Follow them via @belgiangym

If you missed the 1st day of World Championships preliminaries. Gymternet posted the best summary.

GB women on course for Rio qualification

#Glasgow2015

See the list being considered here.

Looks like Katarzyna opted NOT to compete the Gainer double twist off Beam in competition. If she had, we’d need to learn to pronounce her last name – JURKOWSKA-KOWALSKA.

Click PLAY or watch Katarzyna’s Beam dismount on YouTube.

Her warm-up was surprisingly good. But here’s what happened in the competition. #Glasgow2015

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Neither Abreu Yamilet Pena nor Oksana Chusovitina will qualify for the Vault final. A good thing. Less incentive to CHUCK that dangerous skill.

… It is estimated that at least 20,000 hotel bed-nights have been booked across the city.

A record 594 gymnasts from 87 countries are set to compete …

Ticket sales have now passed the 51,000 mark with the women’s individual all-around final on Thursday evening sold out.

This figure eclipses the 37,000 sold for the artistic gymnastics competition at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

The 2009 World Gymnastics Championships at the O2 in London sold 39,000. …

The 2015 World Gymnastics Championships will be broadcast in 67 countries worldwide. …

Glasgow gears up for record-breaking World Gymnastics Championships worth £5m to Scottish economy

It’s been a long, long but exciting day.

1. RUS: 231.437
2. GBR: 227.162
3. ITA: 224.452
4. JPN: 223.863
5. CAN: 222.78

More HIT routines at Worlds than I can ever recall during a day of preliminaries. And it’s only half over. USA, CHINA and many more coming up tomorrow.

Rewriting Russian Gymnastics has a wrap-up of their prelims competition.

Some speculate that the injury to Aliya Mustafina helped the rest of the team step up.

A new site called The Gym Report has a lengthy post featuring Worlds competitors with strong links to the USA. Many compete or have competed NCAA.

Brit Danusia Francis (UCLA) is here competing for Jamaica.

I’d love to hear what he has to say regarding the excellent performance of Team Russia today. Without Mustafina.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Love this gymnast. But felt 14.633 (6.100+8.533) was too high for that set.