TV schedule: http://www.gymchat.com/messageboards/viewtopic.php?t=411 News: "Gymnastics goes Interactive" - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/sporteditors/2007/04/gymnastics_interactive.html [quote]Britain will have nine gymnasts (three women and six men) at these European Championships. They were be competing against 41 countries for 12 medals in front of over 6,000 fans at the Amsterdam Exhibition Centre. [/quote] ...check out article for more description "Tweddle reaches Euro floor final A delighted Tweddle celebrates her historic world title Beth Tweddle reached the final of the women's floor competition on her return to action at the European Individual Artistic Gymnastics Championships." - http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/gymnastics/6594495.stm [quote]Marissa King made it through to the vault final and Hannan Clowes qualified in the overall competition. Commonwealth champion Louis Smith is also in Britain's team and hopes to progress in the pommel horse apparatus. The individual all-around final takes place on Saturday and the individual apparatus finals on Sunday. LIVE ON BBC INTERACTIVE ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. HIGHLIGHTS ON BBC2 ON SUNDAY FROM 1355-1500 [/quote]

"Ferrari Leads Qualifying at Europeans" - http://intlgymnast.com/news/2007/april/042607_europeans.html [quote]Ferrari's routine on uneven bars featured a Comaneci salto between the bars, a Jaeger and a double layout dismount. Her routine on balance beam was slightly shaky, but she did not have any major wobbles. Ferrari's skills included a flip-flop, full; front aerial; sheep jump; back tuck; and switch ring leap. [/quote] Vanessa Ferrari's Comaneci salto is pretty! i like that skill, not that many do it. Vanessa Atler had a tough time with it in her bar routine and missed the bar on her regrasp a lot Ferrari's coach: [quote]Casella said he thought the scoring on balance beam was generous overall, even to Ferrari. "I thought the scores on beam were too high," he said, "For Vanessa, it was too high

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Italy's Vanessa Ferrari (2006 world all-around champion) wins all-around title at Europeans. Her first event: beam - minor balance check on a flip flip; then floor - very good, then vault, then bars - landing double layout with a hop. Romania's Sandra Izbasa (3rda ll-around at worlds) got 2nd - she started on bars (her lowest scoring event of the dat), then beam and floor got her the highest two scores, then she did vault. Ukraine's Alina Kozich (2004 European all-around champion) got 3rd all-around, with the highest beam score on her last event. 4th place for women's all-around: Romania's Steliana Nistor (2004 European junior champ) - she fell on beam (flip flop full) and floor (2 1/2 twist layout punch front). Russia's Maxim Devyatovsky - men's all-around champion -vault, solid double front, -had near miss on high bar in 3rd rotation, 6th rotation on rings, stuck landing with fist pumping after Germany's Fabian Hambuchen 2nd - he dismounted rings in the 1st rotation with conservative double front (his 2nd lowest score) - almost fell on dismount sequence on pommel horst in 5th rotation, but landed - that was his lowest score of all 6 events. article: "Ferrari, Devyatovsky Win Europeans" - http://intlgymnast.com/news/2007/april/042807_europeans.html Results: 2007 European Gymnastics Championships 4/28, Amsterdam Women's All-Around 1. Vanessa Ferrari ITA 61.075 2. Sandra Izbasa ROM 59.900 3. Alina Kozich UKR 59.300 4. Steliana Nistor ROM 58.175 5. Yekaterina Kramarenko RUS 57.825 6. Oksana Chusovitina GER 57.450 7. Kristina Palesova CZE 56.675 7. Kristina Pravdina RUS 56.675 9. Verona Van De Leur NED 56.225 10. Anja Brinker GER 56.025 11. Daria Zgoba UKR 55.825 12. Stefani Bisbikou GRE 55.750 13. Cassy Vericel FRA 55.625 14. Federica Macri ITA 55.600 15. Patricia Moreno ESP 55.475 16. Gaelle Mys BEL 54.900 17. Lichelle Wong NED 54.825 18. Viktoria Karpenko BUL 54.725 19. Veronica Wagner SWE 54.600 20. Hannah Clowes GBR 54.550 21. Nicole Pechancova CZE 53.900 22. Yelena Zanevskaya LTU 53.825 23. Mercedes Alcaide ESP 53.675 24. Anastasia Marachkovskaya BLR 23.650 Men's All-Around 1. Maxim Devyatovski RUS 90.250 2. Fabian Hambuchen GER 89.675 3. Yuri Ryazanov RUS 89.000 4. Rafael Martinez ESP 88.425 5. Flavius Koczi ROM 87.825 6. Epke Zonderland NED 87.675 6. Manuel Campos POR 87.675 6. Razvan Selariu ROM 87.675 9. Jeffrey Wammes NED 87.600 10. Dmitry Savitsky BLR 87.550 11. Ilya Giorgadze GEO 87.350 11. Enrico Pozzo ITA 87.350 13. Daniel Keatings GBR 87.225 14. Robert Juckel GER 87.200 15. Dmitry Karbanenko FRA 87.125 16. Claudio Capelli SUI 86.875 17. Filip Ude CRO 86.675 18. Sami Aalto FIN 86.375 19. Matteo Morandi ITA 86.225 20. Vahag Stepanyan ARM 84.750 21. Nicolas Boschenstein SUI 84.575 22. Alexander Shatilov ISR 84.500 23. Ross Brewer GBR 84.050 24. Marcell Hetrovics HUN 83.200 for full results, go to: http://ecgymnastics2007.com (official web for the European Championships)

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All the talk during the American Tyson Cup about Ukraine's Daria Zgoba's home-made grips of gauze and tape, and she wins gold on the uneven bars again! Italy's Carlotta Giovannini got gold on vault with double-twisting Yurchenko and round-off, half-on, front-full. Germany's Oksana Chusovitina got silver with a full-twisting piked front and a 1-1/2-twisting Tsukahara. Ferrari got 1st on floor, Tweddle got 2nd. Ferrari fell on the 2 events before - bars and beam. Romania's Sandra Izbasa withdrew from the floor final b/c she hurt her foot on beam (the event before) on her triple twist dismount on beam (she got 2nd, Lozhechko got 1st). Romania's Marian Dragulescu had an off day: -he didn't finish his floor routing - he had a heavy landing to the back of his head on a layout Thomas salto and then tried twice to run into his last tumbling pass but didn't tumble - just stopped and walked off the podium -maybe his head was hurting a lot from that hard landing. -then later in the afternoon in vault final: he missed his second vault (round-off, half-on, 2-1/2 twisting front). -he usually scores really well on these 2 events Check out more competition details from "Seven Countries Win European Event Golds" - http://intlgymnast.com/news/2007/april/042907_europeans.html Results: 2007 European Gymnastics Championships 4/29, Amsterdam Women's Vault 1. Carlotta Giovannini ITA 14.812 2. Oksana Chusovitina GER 14.725 3. Anna Grudko RUS 14.625 4. Yulia Lozhechko RUS 14.450 5. Jana Komrskova CZE 14.350 6. Marissa King GBR 14.175 7. Enikoe Korcsmaros HUN 14.012 8. Sandra Izbasa ROM 13.975 Uneven Bars 1. Daria Zgoba UKR 15.775 2. Steliana Nistor ROM 15.725 3. Yekaterina Kramarenko RUS 15.425 4. Katheleen Lindor FRA 14.700 5. Jana Sikulova CZE 14.675 6. Vanessa Ferrari ITA 14.375 7. Anja Brinker GER 13.600 8. Lichelle Wong NED 12.925 Balance Beam 1. Yulia Lozhechko RUS 15.675 2. Sandra Izbasa ROM 15.525 3. Stefani Bisbikou GRE 15.475 3. Steliana Nistor ROM 15.475 5. Alina Kozich UKR 15.450 6. Kristina Pravdina RUS 15.250 7. Irina Krasnyanskaya UKR 15.225 8. Vanessa Ferrari ITA 13.550 Women's Floor Exercise 1. Vanessa Ferrari ITA 15.400 2. Beth Tweddle GBR 15.250 3. Alina Kozich UKR 15.050 4. Cassy Vericel FRA 14.625 5. Steliana Nistor ROM 14.600 6. Oksana Chusovitina GER 14.450 7. Patricia Moreno ESP 14.375 Men's Floor Exercise 1. Rafael Martinez ESP 15.550 2. Thomas Bouhail FRA 15.350 3. Matthias Fahrig GER 15.275 3. Eleftherios Kosmidis GRE 15.275 5. Anton Golotsutskov RUS 15.175 6. Enrico Pozzo ITA 15.125 7. Marian Dragulescu ROM 14.300 8. Flavius Koczi ROM 14.250 Pommel Horse 1. Krisztian Berki HUN 15.800 2. Daniel Keatings GBR 15.450 3. Flavius Koczi ROM 15.325 4. Louis Smith GBR 15.300 5. Nikolai Kryukov RUS 14.975 5. Donna-Donny Truyens BEL 14.975 7. Filip Ude CRO 14.325 8. Robert Seligman CRO 12.425 Still Rings 1. Alexander Vorobyov UKR 16.325 2. Jordan Jovtchev BUL 16.200 2. Andrea Coppolino ITA 16.200 4. Konstantin Pluzhnikov RUS 15.800 5. Matteo Morandi ITA 15.375 6. Thomas Andergassen GER 15.350 7. Dmitry Savitsky BLR 15.025 8. Dmitry Kasperovich BLR 14.850 Men's Vault 1. Anton Golotsutskov RUS 16.537 2. Raphael Wignanitz FRA 16.312 3. Jeffrey Wammes NED 16.237 4. Matthias Fahrig GER 16.175 5. Marian Dragulescu ROM 16.100 6. Leszek Blanik POL 15.987 7. Dmitry Kasperovich BLR 15.650 8. Alexander Yakubovsky UKR 15.512 Parallel Bars 1. Mitja Petkovsek SLO 15.875 2. Nikolai Kryukov RUS 15.450 3. Epke Zonderland NED 15.400 4. Yann Cucherat FRA 15.325 5. Sergei Khorokhordin RUS 15.175 6. Dmitry Karbanenko FRA 15.075 7. Dmitry Kasperovich BLR 14.900 8. Rafael Martinez ESP 14.750 High Bar 1. Fabian Hamb

Bart and Elfi did make a huge deal about Ukraine's Daria's 'home-made grips' with gauze and tape as they would put it! Guess they used grips and loved them! A lot of countries outside of the USA don't use them, but perhaps they would if they were given to them at no charge.

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Daria's and Nastia's bar routines have the difficulty built more on connections vs. like Ferrari's or Tweddle's bar routines that are by more release moves - so if you mess up on a routine built with connections, you can lose more points and be off the medal podium, whereas in one built with difficulty around release moves if you mess up a little it won't be so hard on your score and it's easier to still medal.

another Europeans article: "Medal for the record books Gymnast