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Old 24-10-2015, 19:59
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Well GB have now officially qualified a women's Gymnastics team for Rio. They are currently in 3rd place in the Team standings with only 4 more teams to compete. Qualifiers for individual finals to be confirmed after the final 2 sessions this evening
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Old 24-10-2015, 22:27
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Olympic Qualifying places for the British Canoe Slalom team are being settled this weekend - we have one quota place in each event, so this is about getting individuals into these places. David Florence gets the men's Canoe slot, and Florence and Richard Hounslow get the pairs spot. More tomorrow.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/canoeing/34627834
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Old 24-10-2015, 23:51
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Anyone who watched Delhi 2010 may remember Reiss Beckford, who won 3 silver medals for England.

The strength of the British squad is such that he now represents Jamaica, obviously with Rio in mind. He won't earn an Olympic berth this weekend, but hopefully he'll do well enough to earn a spot in next year's test event and qualify for Rio there.

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Women's qualification is now done and dusted - here are some useful links:

All live results
All documented start lists / results / etc in detail

Team qualification results
The 8 finalists (who can also send full teams to Rio) qualified as follows:
USA 236.611
RUS 231.437
GBR 227.162
CHN 225.127
ITA 224.452
JPN 223.863
CAN 222.780
NED 222.354

Third place for the Brits is a great result, but the Chinese were off the boil; ergo a bronze medal in Tuesday's final would be an impressive result. Agonisingly for Brazil, they finished in 9th place (221.861), which means they'll have to be top 4 in the test event if they want a full team; same goes for Romania, who were 13th (217.220).
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Old 25-10-2015, 00:06
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Individual all-around qualifying round results

Individual all-around finalists qualified as follows:
1 778 BILES Simone USA 61.598
2 757 STEINGRUBER Giulia SUI 57.640
3 779 DOUGLAS Gabrielle USA 57.516
4 546 BLACK Elsabeth CAN 57.299
5 698 WEVERS Lieke NED 56.733
6 744 TUTKHALIAN Seda RUS 56.599
7 606 TINKLER Amy GBR 56.466
8 604 HARROLD Ruby GBR 56.398
9 652 MURAKAMI Mai JPN 56.366
10 542 OLIVEIRA Lorrane BRA 56.365
11 559 SHANG Chunsong CHN 56.332
12 611 SCHAEFER Pauline GER 55.799
13 541 LOPES SARAIVA Flavia BRA 55.798
14 631 MAKRA Noemi HUN 55.732
15 729 IORDACHE Larisa Andreea ROU 55.698
16 642 FERLITO Carlotta ITA 55.665
17 643 FERRARI Vanessa ITA 55.665
18 561 WANG Yan CHN 55.566
19 655 TERAMOTO Asuka JPN 55.532
20 529 VERSCHUEREN Lisa BEL 55.449
21 731 JURCA Laura ROU 55.332
22 526 HERMANS Rune BEL 55.332
23 613 SEITZ Elisabeth GER 55.298
24 548 ONYSHKO Isabela CAN 55.216

Defending champion Simone Biles is in a league of her own - barring a major disaster, I cannot see anyone (including Olympic champion Gabrielle Douglas - third in qualification) denying her an unprecedented third consecutive world title.

Two Brits made the top 10, and Ellie is also ranked high enough (20th if you ignore the 2 per country limit) to qualify should either Tinkler or Harrold not enter the final for any reason.
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Old 25-10-2015, 00:51
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Individual apparatus qualifying round results for:
Vault
Uneven bars
Beam
Floor

Individual apparatus finalists qualified as follows in:
Vault
Spoiler

Uneven bars
Spoiler

Beam
Spoiler

Floor
Spoiler


Just like last year, Simone Biles is also looking to stamp her authority on the separate pieces of apparatus; she tops the standings in all but uneven bars and is the defending champion on beam and floor (plus vault silver). You wouldn't bet against a similar result next weekend.

Oh, and she's just shy of 16 points on floor. Crikey.

It's a shame that Becky didn't qualify on uneven bars as she was arguably the most likely of the British women to win a medal. That said, we have Ellie on vault & floor, Harrold on uneven bars and Fragapane on floor (if someone medals, it'll be her), which isn't bad at all.
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Old 25-10-2015, 13:35
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Individual apparatus qualifying round results for:
Vault
Uneven bars
Beam
Floor

Individual apparatus finalists qualified as follows in:
Vault
Spoiler

Uneven bars
Spoiler

Beam
Spoiler

Floor
Spoiler


Just like last year, Simone Biles is also looking to stamp her authority on the separate pieces of apparatus; she tops the standings in all but uneven bars and is the defending champion on beam and floor (plus vault silver). You wouldn't bet against a similar result next weekend.

Oh, and she's just shy of 16 points on floor. Crikey.

It's a shame that Becky didn't qualify on uneven bars as she was arguably the most likely of the British women to win a medal. That said, we have Ellie on vault & floor, Harrold on uneven bars and Fragapane on floor (if someone medals, it'll be her), which isn't bad at all.
If she can find another tenth or 2 in the final she has a great chance & with her not doing All Around she'll have 4 days rest between team & the Floor final. A little too early for Ellie to medal I thing but she can definitely challenge in the next year or 2 for global medals
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Old 25-10-2015, 14:12
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British Men have completed their qualifying. They were in the 1st group so a long wait until tomorrow night to find out the final qualifying results.

A few errors & falls so far from an ideal qualifying. However they should still have done enough to qualify for team final and therefore Rio. Dan Purvis & Max Whitlock will almost certainly have done enough for All Around final. Dan has the top score and Max & Nile Wilson were tied with exact same score in 2nd but tie-break in this is to drop the lowest Apparatus score and after this Max came out on top as he was able to drop his High Bar score where he fell.

As for individual Apparatus finals I think Louis Smith has certainly made it on Pommel and Nile Wilson also has a great chance in High Bar & P Bars. Max on Pommel & Floor will probably be a close shave either way - as I said a long wait for the final results.
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Old 25-10-2015, 18:14
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Anyone who watched Delhi 2010 may remember Reiss Beckford, who won 3 silver medals for England.

The strength of the British squad is such that he now represents Jamaica, obviously with Rio in mind. He won't earn an Olympic berth this weekend, but hopefully he'll do well enough to earn a spot in next year's test event and qualify for Rio there.

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Women's qualification is now done and dusted - here are some useful links:

All live results
All documented start lists / results / etc in detail

Team qualification results
The 8 finalists (who can also send full teams to Rio) qualified as follows:
USA 236.611
RUS 231.437
GBR 227.162
CHN 225.127
ITA 224.452
JPN 223.863
CAN 222.780
NED 222.354

Third place for the Brits is a great result, but the Chinese were off the boil; ergo a bronze medal in Tuesday's final would be an impressive result. Agonisingly for Brazil, they finished in 9th place (221.861), which means they'll have to be top 4 in the test event if they want a full team; same goes for Romania, who were 13th (217.220).
Danusia Francis who competed for GB at the 2011 Worlds is also now competing for Jamaica
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Old 26-10-2015, 19:34
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Well with just 1 final qualifying group to go it's now been confirmed that Team GB have qualified for Rio and of course also the final here.

As well as Dan & Max in the All Around looks like we'll probably have Louis in Pommel along with Max who should make floor final too. Dan is also currently in final qualifying position on Floor & Nile is in the same position on Rings.

A couple of shocks though - Berki is out of Pommel final as in Epke Zonderland. Gutted about Epke as had been really looking forward to seeing him 'in the flesh'.

Arrived in Glasgow earlier & looking forward to attending all the finals sessions now.
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Old 26-10-2015, 22:24
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Olympic Qualifying places for the British Canoe Slalom team are being settled this weekend - we have one quota place in each event, so this is about getting individuals into these places. David Florence gets the men's Canoe slot, and Florence and Richard Hounslow get the pairs spot. ]
Joe Clarke in the Kayak and Fiona Penny in the women's canoe get the final two Rio places.
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Old 27-10-2015, 00:32
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Men's qualification is now done and dusted.

Team qualification results
The 8 finalists (who can also send full teams to Rio) qualified as follows:
JPN 358.884
CHN 357.027
GBR 354.417
RUS 352.692
USA 350.332
SUI 350.127
BRA 349.057
KOR 346.166

Can the Japanese finally beat their neighbours to the title, after having missed out by a tenth last year? A bronze medal for the Brits is a fair possibility - they managed it at London 2012, after all.

Seventh place is great news for the 2016 hosts; not so for Ukraine, who will need to be top 4 in the test event as they were only 12th in Glasgow (341.817).
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Old 27-10-2015, 00:45
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Individual all-around qualifying round results

Individual all-around finalists qualified as follows:
1 267 UCHIMURA Kohei JPN 90.564
2 382 VERNIAIEV Oleg UKR 90.131
3 208 PURVIS Daniel GBR 88.956
4 387 LEYVA Danell USA 88.898
5 153 DENG Shudi CHN 88.832
6 157 XIAO Ruoteng CHN 88.698
7 173 LARDUET Manrique CUB 88.656
8 264 KAYA Kazuma JPN 88.431
9 211 WHITLOCK Max GBR 88.365
10 138 OYAKAWA MARIANO Arthur BRA 88.182
11 355 BRAEGGER Pablo SUI 87.765
12 340 BELYAVSKIY David RUS 87.665
13 342 KUKSENKOV Nikolai RUS 87.398
14 354 BAUMANN Christian SUI 86.932
15 275 PARK Minsoo KOR 86.732
16 135 de SOUZA BITENCOURT Lucas BRA 86.564
17 299 DEURLOO Bart NED 86.465
18 125 BARKALAU Dzmitry BLR 86.265
19 200 AUGIS Axel FRA 85.899
20 191 LOPEZ Ruben ESP 85.598
21 126 LIKHOVITSKIY Andrey BLR 85.598
22 215 HAMBUECHEN Fabian GER 85.498
23 330 BATAGA Cristian Ioan ROU 85.431
24 205 ZONA Jim FRA 85.431

Whenever Kōhei Uchimura is competing, you expect to see him at the top - and this event is no exception. Interestingly, only he and (arguably his fiercest challenger) Oleg Verniaiev broke 90 (or 89 for that matter), with Purvis leading the rest of the pack just shy of 89 points.

Whitlock and Wilson also made top 10 with identical scores, and the former qualifies because his top-5 score (in his case, the total minus horizontal bar) is superior.
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Old 27-10-2015, 01:17
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Individual apparatus qualifying round results for:
Floor
Pommel horse
Rings
Vault
Parallel bars
Horizontal bar

Individual apparatus finalists qualified as follows in:
Floor
Spoiler

Pommel horse
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Rings
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Vault
Spoiler

Parallel bars
Spoiler

Horizontal bar
Spoiler


Standout performers were Shirai Kenzo and Oleg Verniaiev, the only two above 16 points in qualifying and hot favourites to win the floor and parallel bars titles respectively.

To confirm Tiger Rose's observations (mostly), we have Whitlock on pommel horse and floor, Smith on pommel horse, Purvis on floor and Wilson on parallel bars. Wilson did very well to make his final, considering the cutoff was 15.5 (!); Whitlock / Purvis have an outside shot of a medal on floor; Smith / Whitlock could be top two on pommel horse since Berki didn't qualify, but Verniaiev will have other ideas.

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Women's team final starts this evening, which means live coverage on the BBC will finally get underway.
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Old 27-10-2015, 19:32
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In case you didn't already know, certain tournaments besides the Olympics are permitted to fly the Olympic flag - this WCh is one of them. You'll find one during a beam routine.
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Old 27-10-2015, 20:15
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In case you didn't already know, certain tournaments besides the Olympics are permitted to fly the Olympic flag - this WCh is one of them. You'll find one during a beam routine.
Thanks for the info posts Edward. Gosh how weird is it not to have Romania in the World Team final?.
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Old 27-10-2015, 20:53
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Woo! Well done the Tiny Girls! BRONZE medal, an all-time best for the British Women.
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Old 27-10-2015, 20:56
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Excellent and the Men could medal..
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Old 27-10-2015, 21:00
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Woo! Well done the Tiny Girls! BRONZE medal, an all-time best for the British Women.
I can't quite believe it!. When I started watching Gymnastics in the 80s this would have been unthinkable!. Just amazing.
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Old 27-10-2015, 21:06
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I can't quite believe it!. When I started watching Gymnastics in the 80s this would have been unthinkable!. Just amazing.
Same here, I go back to the mid 70s and it was just unimaginable that we could ever get anywhere near that standard. Even beating the Aussies in the Commonwealths seemed out of reach.
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Old 27-10-2015, 22:06
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Women's team final results
USA 181.338
CHN 176.164
GBR 172.380
RUS 171.964
JPN 169.887
CAN 167.697
ITA 167.597
NED 162.730

The Americans dominated the competition and won their fourth global title in succession, thanks in no small part to Biles' all-around form and their ability to avoid major mistakes. The Chinese (by and large) put their mistakes in qualifying to bed and finished as runners-up by a comfortable margin.

Gosh how weird is it not to have Romania in the World Team final?.
That, and Russia having an absolute mare on beam - which opened the door for the British women to win their first medal in a global team final for 87 years!! That is damn near as big a moment as the men winning team bronze in London 2012 - and wasn't it fitting that after falling during her uneven bars routine, it was Ellie that produced the medal-winning performance on vault?!

If you stayed around for the medal ceremony, you'll have noticed the ceremony music is the very same composed for Glasgow 2014. Speaking of the Commonwealth Games, here are last year's results - England's winning score of 167.555 (in the very same arena) would have been worth just seventh place today.
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Old 28-10-2015, 15:47
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I can't quite believe it!. When I started watching Gymnastics in the 80s this would have been unthinkable!. Just amazing.
Same here. Still can't believe it & was lucky enough to witness it live. Still buzzing - hopefully the men can follow suit.
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Old 28-10-2015, 16:45
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Brilliant result for the women gymnasts. It seems we have a conveyor belt now with a new exciting talent coming through every year.
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Old 28-10-2015, 20:14
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GB .2 behind Russia in 4th with 2 rotations to go.

Pretty solid performance generally.

Japan and USA in a close battle for gold.
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Old 28-10-2015, 20:40
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Chinese coming up on the outside
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Old 28-10-2015, 20:52
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We have performed well but the competion has been of high quality generally.

Big fall from the Japanese and we have moved ahead of China so certain of a medal!
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