Olympics: Gymnastics

AlisonMitchell ‏@AlisonMitchell
Beth Tweddle is still 1st on Bars, 7th on Floor (Top 8 make Final). Tunney 12th & Whelan 14th in AA (Top 24 make Final) #gymnastics
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Good day for the girls, I think the team go through as well.  Following on from the men's excellent day yesterday!

I'm sure I read somewhere that a fair few of GB's gymnasts are from the same Liverpool club.  I wonder if that has been inspired by Beth?  I'd be made up if she could win a medal in these games, she's a true star in my mind!

Men's team final is so tense!

UK v Ukraine for third with Ukraine something like 0.2 ahead going into the last event.

The last event has GB on the floor, Ukraine on the rings.

So tense!  It was terrible when the crowd groaned, the cameras weren't showing the high bar, but you just knew something awful had happened.  Apart from that one slip, GB have done so well so far.

Well done Max !!

15.166  Brilliant...

15.433 for Thomas!

Bronze!!!!  Unbelievable!

Well done lads!

Make that silver!!!!!!!

YESSSSSS!!!

Brillant!

Wow, China get the gold, GB silver, Ukraine bronze and Japan had a poor pommel routine that dropped them down to fourth.

Make that silver!!!!!!!

YESSSSSS!!!

Brillant!

YAY !!!!

Fantastic 

Japan protesting.

Make that silver!!!!!!!

YESSSSSS!!!

Brillant!

Awesome result!! Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't this the team that almost failed to qualify for the Olympics? What an upturn!

F**k off Japan

Japan moved up to silver after their enquiry was accepted and the last vault re-scored.  GB drop to bronze.  Great result, but it feels disappointing.  Gutted and chuffed for the lads.

Japan moved up to silver after their enquiry was accepted and the last vault re-scored.  GB drop to bronze.  Great result, but it feels disappointing.  Gutted and chuffed for the lads.

What a disappointment. Still what a fantastic effort and they've done us all proud.

Awesome result!! Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't this the team that almost failed to qualify for the Olympics? What an upturn!

I think that might have been rhythmic gymnastics?  I think the men's team has been at a good standard for a while now, never Olympic medal standard before though!

Bronze is brilliant, but almost seems an anti-climax after we thought we'd won Silver.

Bronze is brilliant, but almost seems an anti-climax after we thought we'd won Silver.

I know

Sour grapes moment, that was a sh*t dismount, just because he landed on his feet he gets a score, he fell off the bloody horse!

Anyway, the lads look well happy on the podium!  What a great reception for them!

I know

Sour grapes moment, that was a sh*t dismount, just because he landed on his feet, he fell off the bloody horse!

Anyway, the lads look well happy on the podium!  What a great reception for them!

Don't they just, so happy for them.

I missed this. Well done on getting a team bronze but were we robbed of a silver?

I missed this. Well done on getting a team bronze but were we robbed of a silver?

No, one of the Japanese gymnasts made a mess of his dismount from the pommel horse and received a low score which dropped the Japanese team into fourth.  They appealed and the judges were then able to look at video footage of the routine, and they adjusted his mark upwards by 0.5 of a point which was just enough to left them back into silver.  It was very tight between second and fourth places!

Ladies team competition on now.

David Prentice ‏@prenno
Great reception for Team Pool (& Imogen Cairns), with extra noise for Beth Tweddle. Girls all looking nice & relaxed.

Come on Team Liverpool!  Come on Beth!

USA win the gold with a massive score.  Russia get silver with Romania getting bronze.

China finished 4th, Canada 5th with GB just behind in 6th.  Italy and Japan finish 7th and 8th.

GB started badly with a fall of the beam, but finished strongly.  Beth Tweddle put in very strong performance with a very difficult routine on the asymetric bars scoring 15.883.

The US girls were outstanding though!

I'm stunned at how good the teams have become we just didn't exist at this level a few years ago.
I think 6th in the womans event is a fantastic result and the lads are just incredible.
How strong are they .FFS

Dan Purvis and Kristian Thomas are in the men's all round individual competiton.

Good luck lads!

Argh!  What a shame, both Purvis and Thomas were doing really well, until Thomas couldn't land his vault and Purvis has just fallen off the parallel bars.  Gutted for them.