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Making up for the loss to Australia in the team meet, the lads HIT in the individual AA competition.

England’s Luke Folwell took gold ahead of team-mate Reiss Beckford in the men’s individual all-around gymnastics final at the Commonwealth Games. …

“The difference between me and Reiss was the tiniest margin, perhaps just a little step on a dismount. I’m just delighted we came out with these medals,” said Folwell.

A handspring double front on the vault, on which he scored 16.200, was the decisive moment for Folwell as he edged into a lead he refused to surrender. …

read more on BBC

full MAG AA official results

CONGRATS

So, Australia came back from some shaky performances last night to take the top three spots in the Commonwealth Games All-around. It went a little something like this;

1. Lauren Mitchell
2. Emily Little
3. Georgia Bonora

read more on Couch Gymnast

full WAG AA official results

related – commentary on Gymnastics Examiner

She’s cover girl on the October issue of Inside Gymnastics.

Always entertaining and interesting, here is perhaps the best article yet on the de facto leader of Team USA.

Regarding her coach, Mihai Brestyan:

“I have put that man through hell,” she says. “I am really grateful he has taken me back.”

read Alan Abrahamson‘s article on teamusa.org – Age just a number to Alicia Sacramone

Audi has a number of commercials featuring gymnasts. This one is the best I’ve seen, so far.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

There are more TV commercials, many from Europe, on a post on gimnastas.net. (Spanish)

(via Gymnicetic)

A page with convenient links to YouTube.

It includes Lefty, the Disney movie often requested on this site.

Click PLAY or watch Carol Johnston – Lefty – Part 1 on YouTube.

Thanks 80sgymfan.

A big week for South Africa.

Jennifer qualified in first for the final at Commonwealth Games.

And the new Matsports Centre gym in Tshwane was just officially opened.

(via IG – Aussie ‘A-Team’ Wins Commonwealth Games)

Dang straight.

Click PLAY or watch Rokardy on YouTube.

In the preliminary competition. But it’s hard to imagine she could lose the AA final.

… Mitchell’s first competition in 10 months started in rusty fashion last night but she bounced back to be the best performed competitor overall on the four apparatus. …

Lauren Mitchell bounces back to spearhead gymnastics victory

56.95 with a fall on Beam. Not a bad comeback!

Congratulations South Africa.

see all on GymnasticsResults.com

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If you’re headed to Rotterdam for Worlds, but do not have tickets, click through to Full Twist:

The 2010 Artistic World Championships has just announced that more tickets will go on sale for events on 22nd, 23rd and 24th of October. The Ahoy Centre has undergone some renovation work which has meant that more seating can be accommodated.

If you can’t afford those, fly right now to the Commonwealth Games in Delhi:

… organisers are considering giving away tickets to the events for free. Attendance to the events has said to have been poor so far especially to gymnastics (which is quite surprising!), swimming, badminton and hockey. …

again, Full Twist

Australia comfortably won a fourth successive Commonwealth Games gymnastics women’s team gold on Tuesday, with England in second and Canada taking bronze.

Australia, with a total of 163.700 points, justified its status as hot favourites having started its golden sequence in Kuala Lumpur in 1998.

England scored 158.200, with Canada close behind on 154.750 points.

Australia fielded its top gymnasts in Delhi to prepare its for the World Championships in Rotterdam that start on October 16, using the Commonwealth Games as a convenient stop-over on the way to Holland.

England and Canada however chose not to send their leading stars to Delhi to allow them to concentrate on the Worlds. …

read more on ABC

Aussie Aussie Aussie.

They did this starting with six falls on beam. Peggy was shocked and astounded.

(via The Australian Gymnastics Blog)