19/04/2013 Gymnastics: European Championships

A very warm welcome to coverage of the European gymnastics

Championships. Hello to some more fans that we would normally have

with us. All of you are now converts after what was a

sensational summer. The door is open for a medal.

Great Britain's Beth Tweddell has a bronze medal!

What a performance from the young 19-year-old! That was first class!

That is superb. Louis Smith delivered under pressure. What a

job they have done for Great Britain.

It sent shivers down my spine every time I say that. Joining me to talk

through the action are three of the stars of London 2012. It is

Kristian Thomas, Hannah Whelan and Louis Smith. Good afternoon to all

of you. I'm sure a lot of people will be wondering why you are not

out in Moscow. What has been going on? Sadly I had an unfortunate

injury to my right knee and that was due to a bad vault landing.

That was about three weeks ago. I was gunning for a spot on the team.

It was in France in a competition and I landed straight leg on my

right leg so that caused a small fracture in the tibia so back to

rehab. We are happy you are here to talk through the action. Hammad,

what a summer you had. Is it difficult to get back into its --

Hanna. I had some time out and a holiday. It has taken me a while to

get back into the swing of things. What have you been doing? I went on

two holidays. Two Holidays! some time out. And less intense

training until Christmas. Pit has taken longer than expected to get

back fit but I am back training now and it is all going well. You have

been busy, you're not renowned as a floor work get in the world of

gymnastics but what a sensational performance on Strictly Come

Dancing. Here you are in the final. You have not got those trousers on

today. I lent them to Max. He might be wearing them! How was that

feeling? I am not a natural floor worker, I do not dance, I am a

gymnast. It is very different. here you while with the Queen, Your

Majesty -- Her Majesty. We should be referring to as Louis Smith MBE.

That was an unbelievable experience. How does it feel for you were --

how does it feel for you all watching the lads out in Moscow? Is

it a strange feeling? Yes, strange. This are the first major

championships I have ever missed. I am jealous that I am not out there

competing with the guys and being out with the team but at the same

time, I wish them all well and I know they will get some great

results. If qualification is anything to go by, there will be

some good results. Week caught up with Max Whitlock and Dan Purvis

ahead of this competition to get their thoughts.

The Great Britain's men's gymnastics team receive their

applause. What an incredible moment. I went to London 12 -- 2012, hoping

to get on the team. To come with nettles was unbelievable. The team

is so strong. It was a great achievement for us. Hopefully we

can continue to the world's. It is hard to get into this team.

Everybody is good and the juniors are coming up. Everyone is pushing

each other for that place. When you get to these internationals,

everyone is looking at G B as one of the best teams. After the

Olympics I wanted to come out as an all-round gymnastics -- gymnast and

this is the first competition where I have been put in an all-round

players. To see my name on that board was a really good feeling.

has just been phenomenal this year. It is the first time I have been in

the team as an all round. I am not thinking about medals at the moment.

I literally want to get in there. Hopefully I can do that.

So, Max saying he is not thinking that medals at the moment. Do you

believe that? It definitely will be in the back of his mind. He will be

out there gunning for a medal. has this nonchalant way of getting

through routines and seeing what will happen. I think that is what

you need to do as a gymnast. It is very different from the 100 metre

sprint or boxing where you have to beat the opponent. Gymnastics is

very much replicating what you do in training. If you try and put

more effort in that is where things go wrong. He is right to do his

routine clean. Every four years as the Olympics progresses there are

changes to the judges code. There are quite a few this time round. We

will talk through some of the main They have brought the vault down by

a full mark. And on the floor you keep rotating instead of landing on

your feet. And on rings you can only do three strength element

before you move into a swing. As a vault and a floor specialist, are

I understand why they have brought it in. Sometimes you would be a

full mark higher. It makes sense to bring the vault down. And the

rollouts on floor are dangerous. So again, you may be get some people

who are not fully technically aware that they should be doing that

skill so that is a big safety issue. I think it is probably a good idea

to bring it out to be honest. far as the all-around competition

is concerned, there are six pieces of apparatus. Let's see who the

main contenders will be. We start The pommel horse is where Dan

Purvis is starting. Is it a good piece for him? I do not think it is

a bad piece. He will be finishing on floor. That is is strongest

apparatus so he can judge what he needs to do. On to the rings. The

two Ukrainians, you will obviously know them very well because you

were up against them in the team final. They are the ones to look

out for. And then we have Max on vault. A great piece for him to

start on I think. Definitely. It is a good piece to get your adrenalin

and use your nerves. He has a good solid vault and is consistent. It

should not be too nerve-racking for him. We will talk to more Hannah

later because we have the women's later but first we will turn our

attention to the men's all round. There is no Mitch Fenner in the

commentary box because he is on the floor of this competition with the

qualifier David Belyavskiy from Russia. He is 21 years old. He sat

down on his salt in qualification. his face. What a great start for

him. That lays down a benchmark. Whitlock. The highest qualifier.

Can he keep the consistency that he had a few days ago in

that was a costly land in there. How costly? They might be very

unkind and call it a complete mark but I think it would be 0.5. He had

enormous height and transition but relaxed a little bit before the

landing and he is down. That was not too costly. Max is a fighter.

worker all of his career. He demonstrates his strength here.

Fabulous physique for rings. Lovely upper body strength. The gymnasts

have to show Swinging as well as hot on the heels of David

Belyavskiy. You may remember the Ukrainians in the fight with Great

Britain for the bronze medal in the team competition at the Olympics.

He winds up in to the dismay at. A full twisting double straight. A

slight step to one side but a solid just 19 years old. Such a great

all-round gymnast. He was 11 that circuit of internationals leading

up to this. He has a fabulous physique, very good technique. A

For a lot of gymnasts coming off the back of the Olympics, this is

the first major competition. That was a fantastic performance for me.

The Ukraine have a tradition of very stylist -- stylish gymnasts.

He did everything with ease. He is only 19. As he matures and gets

more strength, the start was a very but back in 2011, he was 5th in the

all round, and in the Russian championships, he got a second, so

but here on home ground especially. Fabulous start. Double front. Very

routine. It has changed quite a bit. You need to be able to land

has got a great pace to this but really, not much wrong with

that routine. I really like that, such a beautiful slow, he is so

confident and charismatic. Double twist into the full twist, into the

difficult vault. He is just 0.4 behind David Belyavskiy, who is

still the leaders. That is one of tumble. The trick is to cram in as

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much difficulty as possible in the higher rate. -- hurried. You like

to see the gymnasts open. Full twisting double back. Full

difficulty. I was a bit sceptical about the standard of what we would

see in the handover period of the Olympics but so has our I am blown

first piece of apparatus. David Belyavskiy it is the leader but all

very close indeed. This could go thunder down this runway. He is

very upright but watch how he converts that forward speed into

rotation and height. This is Essex difficulty! -- 64 stock this is a

double pike. He is out of the running surely. That has got to

have hurt his ankles. I am very surprised. I have seen him do the

vault were lots of times. He knows his all-around dreams are over.

Hold your breath. He has got the potential to score well and if he

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can push back into the medals, that That is exactly what he needed

after the vault. That puts him up into second place. But the current

leader, David Belyavskiy, is still That was huge! Look at the time he

has in the air! Absolutely amazing. He extends the body to make a half

turn. He is a superstar, Oleg Verniaiev. That puts him into the

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lead. He got 0.1 more than David landing but a great routine. --

double double tuck. He controlled the rings beautifully, they wanted

to swing. He looked a class act there, he is a class act. He has

fantastic technique. He controlled the apparatus and Ridley showed the

strength moves. -- and he really showed. Up into fourth place. That

is quite nice! Great start. He is a good, consistent performer. He will

quietly built his cause as he goes through the competition. I suspect

it suited him slightly not to be the top qualifier, Daniel Purvis,

because he looks a bit more relaxed than we have seen him in the last

maybe it all-around final in the Olympics and he came 21st -- made

elbows on the rings of Dom but he strength that we have seen from the

others. It goes without saying that strength comes with age. He is one

of the youngest in the competition. He is a very promising gymnast.

Many of the Belgians are looking much stronger. They are one of the

countries that look like they are putting a lot of effort into their

gymnastics and a swinging work was good, but he has not quite got the

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power yet. He is a little bit and a large step back on the

landings. That was the Frenchman, he qualified in 10th. If he keeps

the consistency, I honestly think anything can happen in that top 10.

Verniaiev, David Belyavskiy it needs over 15.4. When you work

first, you then drop to the bottom of the group, so he has waited

until the last gymnast in the second bit. He has had plenty of

time to see what is happening around him. If he needs 14.8, I am

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the second one in. Can the current control did well. -- controlled it.

Very unusual discount, double pike front discount, with a large step

on the landings. There were some areas. Could it match Max's?

possibly could. There was some errors, a loss of form, bending of

the arms and the dismount. There are still fall for PCs to go! Let's

give the lad some credit. -- four PCS to go. With you go for big

difficulty, you can have the slight errors. -- when you go for.

dimension. Such difficult work. Occasional loss of form but when

you are going for this really big work, the double pike, look how

high he is... And you cannot spot your landing. That is the trouble

with a four-wood dismount. That will be a 0.5 deduction. -- forward

dismount. It was a massive dismount. That is probably the first one I

have seen in a long time, the double pike. The blind landing is

so difficult for the gymnasts. You have to generate so much power,

incredible. And in the pie position, there is a bit of hoping! -- the

in this rotation up onto the high bar. He was part of the bronze

medal winning team and got a bronze medal on the pommel horse at the

out. He is showing the different groups that he needs. A really

efficient routine from Max there. And he really is keeping these

routines clean. He knows that is the key. You can see here he wants

to climb higher. A grade routine. Very stylish. Knocks a routine

packed with high-flying release and catches but he plays sit very well.

He is not taking the risk of falling off the high bar. He has

got a really strong shoulder line. He manages to keep his shoulders

beautifully open. His technique is good. He is not getting marks

deducted for poor body shape. He and his coach have very cleverly

made his top routines very difficult and his routines which

are not necessarily his starring place are efficient and that is

what I call this, very efficient. great execution of every skill and

that is what we are looking at. It is probably not one of his better

pieces. It says he is in the lead at the moment. Let's hope he can

stake in the top three. Now Fabyan apparatus so brace yourselves.

full twisting somersault over the He covered it well. He is going for

broke. A really exciting routine the routine the more likely you are

to get deductions. That was a pact routine. I think he surprised

himself with that landing! But he did incredibly well to keep his

composure and carry on. He should have done a Scott full but he did a

squat half. These are things which happen in training and you have got

to go with the routine. Immensely him. He has massive start values on

always fabulous technicians. They are trained and coached so well.

Their lines are great. The position on the turns, legs locked together,

full of difficulty, full of style. Double front half-out, a bit of a

trade mark. That was a great routine. He has his sights set on

gold. Oleg Verniaiev goes into the floor routine. What can he offer

here on rings? He looks a strong lad but he looks heavy. I would

agree with that but we will find out. But not so heavy he cannot

hold an absolutely straight body. arms on backswing to handstand. --

that swing. He finishes the swing with strength. That is what rings

does well. -- on that dismount. With this new code it has made it a

fluid experience to watch, hasn't it? I think it has been great for

the Rings, definitely. The gymnasts have to combine the strengths. You

can see the strain. He nearly overcooked it. That showed great

strength. This winning element and the dismount buzz by far the best

dismount I have seen. A really great straight line. He will

certainly moved up the rankings bars? He had a hefty deduction on

the vault. He will want to put that behind him. He was the top scorer

in qualification on the parallel full-term there. S winning turn

into the double pike. Just the tiniest hop. That was very

it stands, David Belyavskiy. This is an all-or-nothing piece of

apparatus this. No doubt he will be grips and the close bar work. It

was very clean. Just a single twist on the dismount. Nothing given away

buried there. Halfway round and he is on target for the title. What a

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hard bar routine. -- what a high release. He is really packing the

Accelerating into the dismount. he says, I am chuffed that that is

over. There was a lot of stuff that could have gone wrong that didn't,

Chris. Yes, he did not hold back. A big reduction on the dismount, I

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to have a little rest and the routine. Great gift to handstand

for the final tumble. Not a bad routine at all. A wonderful display.

The style of his acrobatics is really beautiful to watch.

This could be be make or break routine I feel for down. In the

past he has had a few problems on the parallel bars. But he has got a

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it Backwell. -- back well. Double pike! Well done! Yes! Cracking.

Such lovely lines, Dan Purvis. He looks as classy as anyone in the

competition and the difficult stuff at the start, it wasn't perfect but

he did not give too much away. is on fire. He has got two

apparatus to go. Come on, son! Purvis from Stockport. His coach,

Geoff Brooks, has coached him from very young. He trains a lot at the

National Centre and he has really worked hard to put the pieces he

has found less easy right for this better. He is just outside of the

medals as it stands in fourth place. Andreas Toba from Germany.

Absolutely nailed to perfection. Good lift. You do not get quite the

same height from that entry, so he really had to twist with speed.

did well on the landing to stop it from going outside the side door.

That is a high score. He's gone up highest score onslaught in

qualification. -- on the floor. Double twist in the first

somersault into a straight back. the pommel horse. -- swing. All

gymnasts must show strength into hands-down as a requirement. It is

part of the routine. There is the roll-out. No deduction for the

landing. It is often favoured by master at containing the energy and

the power. The floor area is not that big and to do that kind of

acrobatics in that area is phenomenal. He is in complete

gymnast. -- a complete. That puts David Belyavskiy it back into the

top spot. Max Whitlock now on the fourth piece of apparatus. He got a

higher score than David Belyavskiy in the qualification and the

highest score of all the gymnasts somersault. -- twists him. So

suited for twisting. He spins like handstand, showing a bit of

cracking routine! Well done! Cracking indeed. Can he knock Oleg

Stepko out of the third position? 15.5, he has gone up into third

place! Come on, Max, just stay that is where the competition is at

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gymnasts must perform. Triple back somersault, slight top forward, but

a very clean up routine. The competition is hotting up at the

top. He is of interesting work, not just the same old same old. He made

that triple back look easy. We often hold our breath on that but

you did not need to. Nobby Stiles. Really innovative work. -- a lovely

style. You can see his elbows were bent and the judges can deduct up

to 0.5 for that because the aim is to catch it at full stretch. But so

much of the rest of the work was very good indeed. Lovely straight

arms, the full turn. And the pieces of apparatus to go, this is

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to climb from the 6th place he is there. He could not have done much

better than that. I think that is the best high bar routine I have

seen him do. There was only one bit in the squat when he split his legs

were the judges could possibly take anything off. But the rest of the

routine was very clean. That lovely straight shape. Fantastic. There is

a lot of gymnastics still to come but it says first for Daniel

penultimate piece of apparatus. -- David Belyavskiy. He has led every

handstand, he just cut it a bit tight. That is the difficult work

pirouette dismount. Evidence of nerves but he coped with them

brilliantly. I saw some errors. The first handstand at the start was

short. Something that Max can certainly perform a lot better. He

looked a bit nervous to me but he finished off well and then up into

the hands Stan, there was absolutely no cause with the

discount, so great finish -- and adjusts the pommel horse. Of course

he got a bronze medal in the pommel horse at the Olympics. Which

that dismount, or well done, Max! He is there, he is in contention!

What a routine! What a performance under that pressure. The lines and

the style was exceptional. Whitlock behind David Belyavskiy.

He is in second place with one more piece to go. Oleg Stepko now.

did not award might well so has he got a problem with his power

apparatus -- he did not vault wealth. Maybe not, that was clean

the performed! Very dynamic. -- difficulty you can get him. It is

your 10 most difficult of moves that are added together have real

difficulty score. -- for your humbles you can do. -- tumbles.

Triple twist, he is the whole package on the floor. Twisting,

multiple somersaults. He dropped down into 5th after the last

rotation and he is clawing his way back up. He had the whole package

there. He started with some powerful tumbles. Arabian double

pike from somersault and very precise on the landing. -- front

loose in the legs. Oleg Stepko is key fault Gonzalez. - Mackey for

the legs, the more difficult it is to keep them locked together. The

more taxing for the gymnast. He had a good Olympic Games. He is

experienced gymnast now and he is showing that experience. That was a

bit of a fall off the end just as I was saying he was controlling it

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You would not necessarily expect and have power but he has also a

good tumbler as well as being right mistake, it was certainly a big

step. He effectively landed it outside of the area. He is still up

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in medal contention in third behind into the swing elements. Great

position. Such confidence. Lift to are totally locked out. A full

twisting double straight. It could be good enough for the title.

gave a very, very little away there. I would be surprised if that was

not the winning routine from the Russian gymnast. He has worked

almost faultlessly today. brilliant performance. Strong,

lovely shoulder line. Lifts his head to show he is totally in

control. Lex locked together. He is really very stylish. Lovely height.

Their knees locked together. He is not only strong and stylish, he has

got great technique. Became here to do a job today and he has done his

job. I will be surprised if anyone can dislodge him from the top of

the leaderboard. Any gymnast wants to go clean and that is what he has

mind of not only max but the coach as he lists -- lift his gymnast to

the rings. Once he has lifted him up, it is out of his hands.

Whitlock from Great Britain goes into his final piece. He was second.

He knows he has to do the routine of his life to challenge or even

just to stay in the medals. Absolutely. He starts off with a

backward rise. A slight wobble but presume there was a hot forward

there. A great routine, job done. great routine from Max. He came

into the competition with all the pressure on his shoulders and he

has handled it fantastically. Just 20 years of age. This was a superb

routine. The slightest wobble at the beginning but then he settled

himself right down. Some very and watch - the challenges of the

at the heels of Max Whitlock. He of a horse. A slight loss of form

great routine but there were areas. It started off fantastically but

Max Whitlock. Oleg Verniaiev looked so impressive until his last two

tumbles on floor. But he is a very again. And he is off! Verniaiev

went into this apparatus in third position. He was hoping to hold on

to that but he certainly will not of a -- with a mistake of that

nature. 1 whole mark deduction if you fall from the apparatus. His

shoulders were miles for what. Well, not the performance we

expected at all. A great shame because he looked so in control of

everything. As soon as a little error crept into the floor, instead

of fighting back like mad, he sort of allowed it to get right to him

and crumbled under the pressure. shows you that the pommels is not a

great piece of apparatus to finish on when you are under pressure.

is in third ahead of his team-mate Oleg Stepko. Dan Purvis will no

doubt have seen that performance and seen a little opening. He has

worked so well today. Here we see Daniel Purvis for Great Britain.

Can he perform a routine to propel double pike somersault. Top

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from Daniel and I am sure he will be disappointed to finish the

competition off with that. What I would call a fighting routine. We

could not see absolutely everything from the camera angle. I think

there were a couple of steps on landing he will be disappointed

with. He is a great floor worker but he has had to change his

routine to deal with the new rules. You are only allowed the one roll-

out now and he has been trying some new difficult elements. Lots of

twisting. That was a very deep landing. But what a fight. Many a

gymnast would have just sat down top six. That is a fantastic result

and the silver medal as well. Two in the top five in the Europeans,

fantastic. David Belyavskiy from Moscow, on home soil, taking the

title. An emotional scene for him and all his coach has. But Max

Whitlock should not be in any way disappointed with himself. Second

place. A bit of a step on his very first piece of apparatus but he

showed great fighting spirit just the same. He did not give up. Every

piece got better. Second in Europe. A fantastic achievement, Max. Here

rugby results. -- here are the David Belyavskiy gets the gold. We

are obviously all talking about Max Whitlock. Such an unlucky start for

him on vault. If there had been another piece he would have

probably taken the gold in the end. Maybe the nerves did get the better

of him slightly but he did ever so well to claw his way back into the

competition and finish amongst the medals. And D obviously going into

this, Louis, with a certain amount of pressure. Yes, fair play to Max.

He did what he had to dig. Look what he has produced. He is on the

podium, a silver medal in the all- round finals. He is a brilliant guy.

Congratulations, you first senior European medal. I am very happy

with that. I hope to do similar routines to qualification and I did

and I am ready happy. You got a bronze a few years back. The

quality is stepping up so ones like slip and you can fall down?

seems to be like that. Everybody seemed to nail their routines and

was so consistent. With my own performance, I am not quite as fit

as I wanted the, but I am quite happy with that. The in the past

people have seen you as a pommel horse and floor specialist but you

have taken a massive step forward since the end Olympics. That is

what I wanted to do. I wanted to prove myself as an all-rounder and

to go into this competition, my first all round in a major

competition, and to come up with a medal, it is what I was hopefully

aiming for. He went into the competition saying

he was not thinking about a medal but he knew what he was capable of.

Can it compete with the very big guns in the world? He is still very

young, so when he matures a little bit his rings will definitely get

stronger. The disinterest in, because the new code works for the

likes of Max -- it is interesting. It is not just all about solid

strength, you have more swinger. lot of the small and the younger

guys are doing a lot of swings and it is any they really big guys you

see in the finals that can use the strength to boost up their routines

-- and it is only the really big guys. Do you think privately they

will be really pleased with that? Definitely. He has had quite a few

competitions after the Olympics. Only two weeks ago he was in Japan.

Mentally and physically, that will drain your energy. I think he could

have tied up a few different apparatus but overall I think he

will be very happy for. gymnastics is not over because he

has another couple of finals to go. All the gymnasts from Britain did

incredibly well in qualification. Let's see who will be competing

back. He is a training partner. Definitely. We have Sam Oldham and

a new name that none of you may have heard of, Ashley Watson. And

then we have Becky Downie, and Ruby Harrold. Rebecca Downie it was in

the Beijing Olympics but there are no British gymnasts from the

women's side from the London Becky Downie has had a difficult

few years with injury so it is great for her to be back on the

international scene and getting in finals. If of course, Louis, you

are not the only one to be adorned in sequins! Beth Tweddle has been

named as the Ice Queen as well. She has been spending a lot of time in

the ice rink so we thought we would rapper in some furs and put her by

a fire and get her thoughts! young lady who changed the face of

gymnastics for Great Britain. Tweddle has a bronze medal! I had

had a tough few months leading into the Olympics. I had surgery and was

not sure I would even make it, and my dream rested on that final in

the bars. As soon as I walked in, I could feel the warmth so I just

enjoyed every minute. To stand on the podium, I had to pinch myself

to say, finally, I have done it. From the age of seven all I have

known his gymnastics and listening to my coat and everything revolved

around that, booking a holiday, meeting up with friends -- my coach.

Now I have the freedom. I can say, I want the weekend off. I still do

not know what I once for gymnastics. I love it. I never thought I would

accomplish what I have done. I am making the decision to carry on

training but not to compete. I wanted a break from the competitive

side. All people are bothered about is what you do in the gymnastics

hall, before the Olympics, but now people are bothered about what you

do and what clothes you are wearing. E Louis winning Strictly Come

Dancing and me winning on the ice rink, it is great for gymnastics.

It is more than a sport, that is their new motto, and we have proved

that. People have gathered that British gymnasts are moving up the

ranks but with the games being in London, the profile of the gymnasts

themselves, ten years ago you could not even name one but now people

would be able to name two or three gymnasts. It will be strange, this

is the first major championships after the Olympic Games so from all

round Europe you will see a lot of new faces. We haven't got any of

the women's Olympic team now. It is just because people are taking a

break, unfortunately Becky Downie has been -- Rebecca Tunney has been

injured. But it is great the new ones are getting their faces known

and that experience. Shall we talk about a hot tub in your garden?

can if you want! We will not talk about it! Beth Tweddle was

mentioning Gabby Jupp. She was on top form, everybody was talking

she has potential to make a name for herself. She almost made the

beam final and then this happened on the beam. Such a shame. And that

was it. The end of a qualification competition. High hopes indeed.

could have done really well. She was one of the ones that everybody

was hoping to announce as a superstar. We hope she is OK.

are still waiting to get the definite word on this. We know she

has been flown home and she will be looked at by doctors over here. Now

we are focusing on Ruby Harrold and Charlie Fellows. It is quite a big

moment, Charlie Fellows is very She came second at the British

Championships in March, fantastic for a first-year senior. And Ruby

Harrold qualified with the 6th highest score. Would you have

expected that? She had the potential. Oh don't think she would

have expected it. She is very talented. She has been through a

rough couple of months with injury so to see her get that is an

amazing result. Let's hear from her. I came to this European

Championships to focus on the final of the bars because I have some

unique combinations and I was hoping that would be enough so. And

to walk away yesterday with an all round final and to find out later I

had a beam final was fantastic. is that wonderful moment after

qualification when you realise you have a chance in the finals but

then suddenly the pressure hits. She is in a very unique position.

She is in new waters. She has done very well and now she is probably

thinking, if I can push it a little bit harder I can do even better,

but she needs to focus and say, let's not change anything, I am

here because I know my routine, let's rely on it. You have messed

up at a very big level and it has helped you in the long run.

need to make those mistakes and understand why you make the

mistakes and then you can move on. And understand it for yourself. You

can be told but until you go through it, it does not go in.

is one thing this minute -- listening to it but unless you do

it you will not know. Another the vault final due to various

injuries. She is definitely one to look to in the future. She has

great potential. She trains with me and Rebecca Tunney in Liverpool.

One to look out for. Let's turn our vault? It is always a steady piece

Fellows obviously is the British gymnast. An interesting group. Two

Ukrainians. You want but top guns to be in your group was so you can

keep your sights on them. -- the top guns. Some gymnasts like to

just focus on themselves and they will not watch anything else but

other gymnasts like to know what they need to get to beat their

competitors. Let's go to beam. Aliya Mustafina is an obvious name

to pick out. That is a great group. The two at my throat -- Romanians

and the Russian are the ones to watch out for there. The Russians

and the Romanians are that two top groups. Aliya Mustafina has always

been one of my favourite gymnasts to watch so... Where will you put

your money? It is difficult. I know that two Romanians came out on top

but the Russians tend to hold back a little bit in qualifications and

bring it all in their final, so it will be interesting to see. Is that

a tactic to hold back on the Possibly. It is hard to Safe. I

don't think they intentionally make mistakes. -- it is hard to Safe.

But you can opt for an easier route team. We would always say, which

one will you go for? It is nice to have the back-up, keep them

guessing. What is strong about the Russians, they are trained

religiously. They will always be very stable and consistent, which

sets them apart from the rest of the people that compete.

noticeable difference between men's and women's is the age difference

as well. What do you put that down to? You are doing much more

difficult skills at a younger age. Two Olympics at the age of 20?

How old Will you at your first Olympics? 23. Gymnastics has always

been a young sport for men and women but for the females it is

easy for us when we are smaller, our frames are younger. They go

through puberty a lot earlier so it is a younger age sport but the

women are more developed to handle the tides of pressure and the

impact that the sport will have on them, -- types of pressure. But we

develop later. And four apparatus instead of six for the men. That

leaves a lot less room for mistakes. Yes. If you fall, it is almost like,

that is it. It is a bit risky. There is Aliya Mustafina getting

ready. She has had controversy from the back of the Olympics. Head

coach left the team because they said he spent too much time with

her and they got jealous. Politics involved. Be it does not stop, does

it. We are all a cut in and ready to go. Max Whitlock did incredibly

well. What will be -- the British women have in store for us? We join

onslaught. Both the Russian gymnasts had some problems in

qualification. They still ended up in the top four. Anastasia Grishina

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was third in qualification but she classical performer to classical

music. Wonderfully stretched. Feet pointed all the time. But she had

some deductions on the tumbles. are looking at deductions for going

outside the floor. When one foot goes out it is a 0.1. She managed

to keep the other one in. If it had joined it it would have gone up to

a 0.3 deduction. We have a new rule on the women's side. You cannot

just stand in the corner Catherine your breath and tumble from two

feet. You have to move one for it and she only just fulfilled that

criteria. To there was a slight hesitation in the corner, I will

just wait even though I am of facing the deduction -- direction.

It was a very solid performance. Very accurate on the tumbles.

and the ace count just as importantly as the tumbles. A

massage their to get the next working. An important opening

routine. Important to the judges as well. They see it and set their

Romania. The leader in qualification. Romanians are so

famous for their confident beam spin as well. The gymnasts have to

include eight elements. Only five of these have to be acrobatic. The

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other three have to be leeks and A lovely routine full stuck -- a

lovely routine. She finishes off, not a wobble in sight. The arm

positions and executions look really well performed. A couple of

four balls. But always difficult to open on beam. Here is Aliya

Mustafina. A great favourite of qualification and she will be

wanting to improve on that if she wants to walk away with the title

today. I think it will be a fight difficult links. But with the

difficulty comes the risk. She managed to hold on. Matters very

three elements together. She went moves together. A 0.5 reduction if

dismount. What an improvement. You can hear the whole audience with

her on that. She does not look too happy with that performance. A

steps back on landing. Nice and late. -- she wraps the second twist

in quite late. Very clean and well back. Not the highest difficulty

vault but executed really well. Ruby has had ankle injuries so she

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is just regaining have full power Junior European champion. She won

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dismount. That was very efficient teamwork. Great work. She is very

small. She almost had to jump to get up to the beam. Very elegant

placed for it except when the delay side somersault. Her first thought

was forwards and some judges will not credit the side somersault if

you land like that. A beautiful height in the double pike back. A

Seeing the emergence of quite a lot of juniors coming forwards. Now

Harrold. The judges tend to get for the judges to be ready.

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compare the beam to the men's Every moment is choreographed. She

knows where every finger should be That was a fantastic performance

there. She nailed every element. Great execution in beliefs, height

of the legs. A lovely start at the beginning. I loved the backward

roll over. It shows some flair and see much more fluency in the dance

lacks a little bit of height. This is our first time to look at

Charlie Fellows and see the Union flag on the back of her leotard.

13.1 in qualification. Her coach will be with her. She is at

Liverpool gymnastic clubs. This is a new routine for her, lots of

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Charlie Fellows of stock such maturity in that routine! Fantastic.

Great transition between the top but and below -- between the top

sure as a performance of stock -- a very mature performance. The Becky

Downie is in the bars final later in the weekend. Diana Bulimar, 14.4,

so they obviously didactic a little bit for a lack of artistry. --

deducted a little bit. We obviously have a little problem with the

music here. Giulia Steingruber from double straight, great power, and

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of start really impressive first tumble. As difficult as you will

see from any of the gymnasts today. doing that so very powerful

at that speed, you will not be able gymnasts, we have worked a lot of

the gymnasts working into the corner. They are paying lip service

to it. Charlie Fellows, 13.2. A little bit up on her qualification

score so that is great. Very interesting how the judges would

interpret the pause in the corner, and not being allowed any more.

They are only 0.1 their deductions but if you do that three times,

that is 0.3. It is the first major championships with these new rules.

Maybe be a little bit harsher in the apparatus finals. We will see.

The gymnasts now move round to the next apparatus, where they will get

a quick warm-up. The gymnasts from the floor moved to vault, the vault

to the bars, it always goes in that allowed. The gymnast and the coach

will have decided on the strategy before they start. Giulia

Steingruber's score is in. You can see that routine again in the floor

final. This is how things start in has just come through the junior

ranks. Ruby Harrold is joint 7th, 13.9. Charlie Fellows is in 16th

place. The young Italian coming up through from the junior ranks. Is

it a massive step from the junior ranks through to the senior ranks?

Yeah. She will only be 16 this year. Her senior debut. It is great for

her to bring out that beam score, the Italians are known for their

great beam work. And a great start for Ruby Harrold and Charlie

Fellows. It was interesting to see Becky Downie, who put the chalk on

the bars. In his quite an important role as a team mate! -- it is quite.

You have to get it right for your team-mate. You said it is the worst

job in the world! It is not the greatest job. The especially if she

slips off. But I want to get it right. Ruby Harrold will be on bars.

I wonder if Becky Downie will be back to shore up for her. She will

hopefully do well. This is one of her best pieces so hopefully she

will get a good score. Are you surprised at how well the goals are

doing? No, they are very talented gymnasts. And they looked so

confident on bars. Charlie Fellows is moving over to beam. We heard

Craig compare the beam to the pommel horse but obviously it is

something you thrive on. The pommel horse is very nerve-racking and

beam is the equivalent. She needs to enjoy herself. It is her first

major, major competition so she needs to enjoy it. Just get on with

it. The some of the big guns are building on the floor next. Is this

a piece of apparatus you particularly enjoy? Although it has

to be said, it doesn't look like there are that many people there.

It gets a bit of personality out in your routine, and with the new code

artistry is a lot more prominent, so it will be interesting to see

what gymnasts change about their routines to make it more of a

performance. Let's rejoin the having her legs worked on. She has

got the vault next, her big piece of operators. -- apparatus. That

sound marked the end of the warm-up. Roxana Popa from Spain. Their best

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you have to include. Good effort at powerful. She is almost so powerful

that she struggles to harness it. She could barely get halfway across

the floor area before she had done all of that tumbles. She is very

powerful. It is very rare that you see so many fix in a combination. -

- Philips. And she still had plenty of room. And of course there is a

bonus for linking elements like that. But the bonuses are really

only 0.1 and 0.2, but they do add up quite well. Two-and-a-half twist

wrapped in rice and tightly. Finishing with the double pike. --

nothing is going on in the arena at the moment. The first gymnasts have

the gymnasts have the time to go and chalk up and to gather their

thoughts. May be last minute words of wisdom from their coach.

realise what has happened, on the bars you are allowed 50 seconds

each, and if you are tall, you are allowed them put up, which may well

have happened, so this is still the warm-up, although we have had the

first floor routine. The other pieces are allowed the three-minute

warm-up but the bars are allowed 52nd seed because every gymnast is

allowed to prepare it as they wish so we are a little ahead on the

floor, which is great, because we are now going to see Aliya

Raby and immediately. Fantastic spatial awareness. -- double

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the legs but well spotted on the landing. Mustafina was the bronze

medallist on floor at the Olympic Games. You can see all the class

that she has in this routine. Such a popular and polished gymnast. As

a junior she was the absolute darling of World gymnastics. She

suffered a terrible knee injury in the 2011 competition. She required

surgery and took a year and a half to get back from. Everybody in

but the performance during the routine was of such confidence. I

think it shows the levels of maturity between the older gymnasts

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very dynamic. Beautiful flight, beautiful shapes. I think that was

occasion. Very much so. The Russian gymnasts did not work very well in

qualification. They all make mistakes but here on home ground

and having watched the men work so well, they look like they have come

out knowing there is a job to be done. Sometimes when you are on

home soil the crowd can be quite daunting, the expectation of the

crowd and sometimes it can be totally uplifting. A little look

here at Anastasia Grishina. We saw her floor work. And an impressive

score on the vault for Giulia top. That was a very good fault. In

gymnastics, a lot of people talk about the 2.5 twisting Tsukahara

which many of the Americans do but typed. She brings the arms out to

steady the landing. That is a fantastic vault for somebody so

very young gymnast going on the element and a backward element. And

they have to have a full pirouette. A nice high double piked somersault.

Well executed. A lovely line in the have clipped the lower bar before

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you, Craig. I like the style of the Romanians, it is not so classical

but they always perform routines with difficult tumbling. It is part

of the routine and that is impressive. She had a fraction of

feet apart. Not that you could see when she was going in full speed.

This is slow motion and look how talked about the new rule and that

is the only floor routine which with the Romanians and Russians

fighting for the top spot. That is always as it has been in the

Europeans. Occasionally Great Britain and the Italians have been

able to mix it up a little bit. But Romania and Russia historically

between the bars that you have to show. She held the first somersault

straight but piped the second one in. The judges can sometimes be

harsh about that and call it only a double pike. I thought it was a

very fluent routine. A very nice could not match the artistry of

Aliya Mustafina. That is what she scored in qualification. A lot of

marks to be given for artistry now. vault. -- a clean vault. That

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had the bars altered slightly so coach. We move on here to Larisa

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that? A really well choreographed routine. She used the music well.

Expressive through the face. I thought that was excellent. She is

excellent on the dance things as well. Hair leaps are super high.

Had tumbling as fantastic. -- her tumbling is fantastic. Talk about

know your distance. Right into the corner. She did not stand on two

feet in the corn and wait. Following the new rules she moved

from a dance position straight in. They have to be more secure on

their tumbling. They cannot stand in the corner and think, thing,

think. They have to move straight into it. Beautifully landed.

beautiful routine. I prefer the new rule to the floor. You do not see

the gymnasts standing in the corner fit. She is barely puffing after

that routine. One minute and 30 seconds of constant movement with

the most difficult skills. You can imagine the volume of work they

have done to be able to perform a routine like that with such

confidence. And the quadruples spin, the difficulty in that is

unbelievable. The gymnasts will spray the water towards the bar so

that the bar is not soaked with its water but it is moist. If you are

over a certain height, you are allowed the bars to be put up. But

it delays the competition. Look at that score! The judges thought the

same as us. We should maybe take up judging because it was a fabulous

routine and it is easy to see that is the best floor routine we have

seen today. I don't think judging is hard when it is like that! It is

when you have to choose between the not so good ones that it is more

tricky. That scorch increases Larissa your Dutch lead --

You don't have to. But most choose to. When you're swimming for an

hour a day, your hands get lots of blisters if you don't. And lots of

tears in the early days but I think your hands built up a resilience to

it. Even the top guys will be contending with blisters on a

weekly basis. It is important US some protection. I have noticed

some of the girls used a bandage for storm different countries use

different things. But if they do not wear handcarts, they're like

the bars scrub quite clean of chalk, as so within your team you want to

have your team using the same the higher part to Lola Bath. The

that was late but she recovered well. -- high bar to low bar.

put into it a little bit too much on the dismount, it was almost, I

will put my hands down to save myself. She did struggle through

that routine and it looks like she may have caused a bit of injury.

The first turn dam was a bit late heavily. -- putting her hands down.

She twisted a little bit early. That will be uncomfortable. But

quite difficult when you have been waiting for a long time like that.

She is a young gymnast. It will need to focus now. Two at ramps

have to go. -- two rounds to go. After two pieces of apparatus,

Louis set be your day key stays out in the lead. -- Larisa Iordache.

Ruby Harrold has moved up a place. Giulia Steingruber, the Swiss

amazing to think that the competition is halfway over.

does go quite quickly. It is different when you on the floor

because you are totally focused on the routines. But it is only 90

seconds on three pieces and then a ten-second vault and that is it.

saw a phenomenal performance from floor from Iordache. Yes, it will

be interesting to see what score sheet debts and Aliya Mustafina.

Giulia Steingruber has done her best two. She is moving over to the

Bar's now. We would expect her to drop down. I think that is a given.

She has given us up the best chance. I think now she can really start to

enjoy the competition and see where she finishes. Ruby Harrold is

moving up a place and that is all you can ask. She is in the beam

final as well. Only two gymnasts per country allowed so things could

change. She got a personal best on beam in qualification. The same if

not better would be a great achievement. How did Charlie do on

the floor? It is one of her best pieces. She had a fall on it

qualification so I am sure she will be hoping to improve on that.

piggyback us from the all round to the team. How do you think that

works out within the British camp? Everyone has adjusted to the system

and that is how it works. I much prefer the team competition but the

individual one really gives you the opportunity to specialise on

certain apparatus and push on with individual apparatus. It is a

different dynamic but it is still an enjoyable competition. If you

look at the likes of Iordache, put her in their team and you have a

winning combination. Exactly, if you have a gymnast but can

contribute like that, you can start to put together a really strong

team and that is what the Romanians will be doing this year. You always

used to training in Olympic Order and this is different because it is

random. Do you think that will throw the gymnasts, not being with

those they are competing with? it depends on the gymnast. I just

focus on my own routine. I do not tend to look around. But I am sure

Aliya Mustafina is looking out in the corner of her eye what the

other top contenders are doing and making sure she is just ahead of

them. This is Aliya Mustafina, former world champion in the all

round, looking to build on her of the vault runway. Ready to

emphasise her bid for this title. Fantastic vault. Look at that!

Beautiful performance. We have seen her compete before with two-and-a-

half twists. That is how she damage Tony in competition. The double

twist is well within her grasp -- she damaged her knees. Absolutely.

Good strike on to the vault. Double twist. Very tight in her legs. I

think psychologically, knowing she is not doing their two-and-a-half,

gives her extra confidence. Tiny bit of direction. The white line

down the middle shows you if the gymnast is bang in line, she was

slightly off to one side but only a very small deduction, 0.1, but she

did not give anything else a wave. She will be very happy with that of

stock absolutely. It will keep the Doctor of the bars left, which is

her favourite. -- she will be happy with those scores. Just the bars

left, which is her favourite. Now plenty of height, very clean.

is probably a very little difference from the junior gymnast.

She won the Junior European Championships last year and this is

her first year of senior. Not quite ready yet. The wise coach does not

put it out until it is absolutely ready. Lovely technique. Straight

body. That will be doing double twists in training all day long but

like you say, it is the maturity of the coat and a gymnast to make it

safe and do a good, clean a vault - - maturity of the coach. Of course

that double twist has a higher start value. That is why it is

worth doing it, otherwise no one Aliya Mustafina for me but it will

be a reasonable score nevertheless. She is also very tiny and dynamic.

It was difficult to see from the angle but I do not think her feet

absolutely maybe two twists. No, they did. There was no question.

Nice type legs. Nice body shape. It would just be the deduction for

being slightly off-line. She was quite arched. I think she twisted a

little bit la and then she struggled to come around. -- a

little bit early. The judges agreed with you. Not quite as good as

Aliya Mustafina. Noemi Makra from Hungary, another gymnast who

excited us in the junior ranks. Particular on the asymmetric bars

for the asymmetric bars. She drinks the skills excellently and

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generates speed as she goes along - on bars. She knows she needs to

build her lead on the first three pieces. She knows this vault needs

tidy, very neat. It is not always possible to see on the TV but I do

not think that had quite the flight back to we have seen from some. She

brought the shoulders a little bit forward, slightly, but it was very

clean. A bit of a direction deduction again for being off-line.

Good shape and good confidence. was a very positive run-up. May be

double twist look easy. Slide crossing of the legs. Probably not

matching Aliya Mustafina but it will not be far off. She looks

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happy. 14.9. We are doing all is packing the difficulty in. Some

of it looking a tiny bit rushed. A double front dismount. Nice and

high. I was very impressed, Christine. Talk about packing in

the difficult it. That full-term, it was quite late in the turn. Jam-

packed. Every time they bend their elbows the judges can deduct. A

routine like this can be heavily didactic. It is how they are

applying the judging system. It made it look a bit rushed although

it was difficult and exciting. totally agree. That look like she

was put in the effort in. She was working hard in back rete in. --

she was working hard in putting that in. Giulia Steingruber has

made good progress since we saw at to lay her challenge. She is just

applying the water. That will make sure her grip will be perfect in

the routine. Last year on bars Grishina took the silver medallist

-- silver medal on ours. The Russians always are. It is one of

their favourite pieces of apparatus. I have never seen a Russian gymnast

who could not swing bars. It is a very technical piece for the women.

The floor and vault and beam are very similar in terms of acrobatic

skills. The uneven bars are very technical. The Russians are very

technical in their coaching of gymnastics. That has not changed.

Many Russian coaches coach or around the world.-all around the

place. Here we have Anastasia full of difficulty this routine --

hike Jager. Very nice indeed. A big smile. A high-five at the coach.

Very happy with that. They head into their final rotation. You can

see the influence of Russian gymnastics in every piece of that

that she could just pours a little. That is the skill of a great bar

worker. A sign of classic give the difficulty value. A very

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impressive score puts her into Grishina but that was a packed full

routine. Really nice to see the Swedish gymnasts here getting among

thick. That routine did not look out of place whatsoever. The judges

are looking for the gymnast to have been promising for some time.

They have had good juniors for quite a while and now they are

starting to make good senior gymnasts as well. Bars are always

but very compact. Why not the best double twists we have seen. It is

difficult to tell the distance but she had those legs locked together.

A super height. I thought that was a very nice malt. -- a very nice

well. She has already qualified for bar final from the earlier

competition. She is not renowned all-round Championships. It is

really good for the younger gymnasts to get the experience of

the first major after an Olympic Games. It is really good for

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want to see. They want to see a back and lose sight of the beam and

injury so not chancing a backward landing but that was a very

confident impressive performance from Ruby Harrold. A very solid

performance. I think she will be very proud of that. It looked very

confident. Not many wobbles. I liked the start with the lift to

handstand into a heater and. -- into a Healey turn. Very confident

about the routine. She could have from Ruby. A nice little wave.

Really enjoying her European experience. Let's hope in a few

years' time we will see her at the Olympics. There is one of the great

Russian gymnasts. There you go. A real show a girl of gymnastics. She

could really perform. She is sadly missed. There are a few gymnasts

here looking impressive. Certainly the desire from the powers that be

in gymnastics is to reward performance.

With one piece of apparatus to go, this is how things look. Larisa

Iordache leads again. She has done had a shame with her landings. She

did not do too well on her last piece of apparatus either. That

puts Charlie Fellows into 21st place. The last piece of apparatus.

I think all eyes will be on the bars, Hannah. It will be between

Larisa Iordache and Mustafina. Mustafina is Olympic champion on

clean through teams... Charlie Fellows will be finishing on the

vault. It is all about getting that experience. Louis, you said you

cannot remember your first Europeans. You are going to make

mistakes early on, with your debut, but it is going to happen. You have

to pick yourself up, and built on it for the future of. Halkidiki

think it is that Aliya Mustafina is up last on bars -- how key do you

think it is? It is big pressure. It is going to be a lot of pressure.

Anastasia Grishina will be going on beam and she is one of the best in

Europe on beam. May exit interesting. Ruby wraps up her

competition. She is a really good slower cat and she has some

interesting choreography so she puts on a good performance -- boot

floor were cut. Is it possible for Aliya Mustafina to catch Larisa

Iordache? And maybe. I think she will do it. She has led the way it

all along. Giulia Steingruber has done incredibly well, she is now

down in 5th. Ruby Harrold is in 9th, she qualified six. She has had a

great competition. She has had a clean competition. She will be

hoping to do a clean the floor routine and score as best she can.

It is great experience for her. or why you feeling not be in there?

It is a bit difficult. -- how are you feeling? I always want to be

competing but it is the best for me to be training and walking on new

skills for the rest of the year. you could finish on one piece of

apparatus come up what would you finish on? The floor. Why? I enjoy

performing on the floor, it is one of the least nerve-wracking pieces.

It is a nice one-two finish on. are looking at Larisa Iordache. She

knows she has one of her weakest pieces coming up. What is your

gameplay? Show has to keep it calm. Don't make any stupid mistakes. --

she has to. It would be pointless to try something different and make

mistakes. Keep it cool. She is quite an experienced competitor now

so she will know. She knows exactly what she needs to do. Whether she

does it or not... She has moved up the ranks with every piece of

apparatus. Can she go one more? She is in second position, Aliya

Mustafina, behind Larisa Iordache. Back to the commentary box. I think

that Aliya Mustafina has got the she does not look very happy with

that at all. -- a big hop back. has not been a good competition for

her. We have not been able to see everybody but that is very much the

picture of a disappointed gymnast. Very nice in the air, great height

Yushchenko, the first gymnast to do this -- we name this. It has

changed a lot. You can hit the platform with your feet so low that

you can rub it off and it has changed the vault considerably for

women. It is safe as well. Les. -- yes. She needs to take a quick

picture of her score board and Guinea, she is not using hand

guards. -- Elisa Meneghini. She is doing a lot of inverted turns so

she likes to feel at the bars of. It is definitely a bit of an

insight into what the gymnast will the best executions. You can almost

see the potential in this gymnast. She has done some great work in

this competition. I am sure her coaches will be very pleased with

without the hand guards. Very clean dismount. Nice routine. Happy with

that. She has worked pretty cleanly. She looks in control of her work.

She looks ready probably to take a step up. I do not think we saw her

floor routine and I know she had trouble with that in qualification.

I think the focus. On the bars, this is where it is going to happen.

I think not only will Aliya Mustafina take it, I think she will

overtake it by a mob. -- by a long way. A very good total for a first-

outing on the asymmetric bars in qualification. I am sure she can do

be the most difficult but she was very happy to have got through.

12.7 in qualification. Looked a lot clean that then. You get some idea

hit their dead handstand. If she does, she gets more marks than if

she was a bit off. They only competition so far. It is never

easy to start on beam but it is even more difficult to finish on

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difficult. It does not look spectacular because it does not

rise higher but you have to rotate away from the beam. That was a good

performance. She has had a very good and clean competition. You can

see the acrobatic skills you are tiny, if your two feet can

stand together on the beam, it is quite a lot easier. Much better

than her qualification for Diana on the big stage, it is this

ahead of that score. She will want to post a score that cannot be

caught. Larisa Iordache from Romania. The lead all the way

but she got the link. She is fighting and giving it everything.

Here we go. Not a flicker. A much better routine. There were errors.

A bit of loss of form in the back when she transferred to the routine

in part. She needs 12.466 to take the lead. De DEC the flicker in the

legs. -- did you see be flicker in the legs? I am sure the judges will

not miss that. They will not miss it but I think she made a big

mistake on it in qualifying so she will have been pleased to achieve

it. The dismount was secure and well landed. She had built herself

a big lead. Whatever she gets, Mustafina needs to be 0.8 better.

Are I would want at least two marks in the lead! The other Russian

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apparatus. But it is very easy to Whatever the scores, she has done

her job in front of her home crowd. Very delighted for her. We have

seen have as a gymnast with ups and downs but to date is an up. A great

performance. A lot of pressure going on to the beam. What style

and grace. It was so nice to watch It was a tiny bit slow. You could

to spare but she cannot afford to fall. One mistake could cost her

the title. She needs anything above 14.533 to steal it. How upsetting

is that to be a gymnast, to lead or through the competition and to lose

on the last piece of apparatus? But she has to do the routine. She is

the Olympic champion on the ace element to another which makes the

difference in the difficult to shuffle on the landing. What a

performance. What pressure. She still doesn't look happy with that.

She is such a perfectionist. She will be thinking it could have been

a bit better but she knows in her heart that is good enough. From the

first move to me it set it out. She banged into bat handstand. Just

watch a master at work. I think she performed immensely. The European

champions should be a walk in the park, if I dare say so. What a

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a fabulous results. She is such an accomplished gymnast. And all-round

gymnast. There is not a piece of apparatus she cannot perform well

on. A great performance. She will be a lot happier with that

performance. She has held herself well. She has the confidence to

know she can go into a piece like the bars last which gives you a

real boost. A well deserved winner today I think. Absolutely. We have

witnessed on the public stage high- rise as a great junior. She got a

terrible injury, fought back from the injury and came back when she

was not really on top of her work. We have seen have gradually come

right back to being right on top of her work. But also Larisa Iordache

as well, I must say. She did not have a great Olympics. She was

suffering from injury. It is fabulous to see her so confident

here. Yes, unfortunately, the bars did let her down at the end of the

day. I am sure in the back of your mind you know you're going up

against the Olympic champion on that piece of apparatus, it does

throw a bit of doubt into your mind and knock your confidence. But she

gave it Harrall. It is something she has got to be pleased with. A

silver in the all round, not eight Bad Day at the office. They all

worked at their best. That is what you want from a gymnastic

competition. You want to see everybody work at their best and

the best gymnast come out at the top. I am really impressed with the

Swiss gymnast, Giulia Steingruber in 4th. That has got to be a

massive improvement. A yes, she had upped her work considerably since

the Olympics. There were a Kubica - - there were a few bits that she

was pleased to do competitive live. A clean sweep so far for the

Russians, overall champion in the men earlier today and in the

Women's there. Absolutely. We did not see Ruby Harrold on floor but

she's got 13.4 which puts Tarin eighth position which is a

fantastic achievement. Top 10. about winning a title in your home

country. I guess the guys in the studio will agree that to win a

medal in your own country when the pressure is on is a really special

feeling. I certainly think the occasion and the home support have

really helped her in this competition. As we said earlier,

sometimes the home support can be a pressure but on this occasion it

was definitely an asset. De gymnasts rose to that situation.

They can do this, they train hard and they can do the routines many

times over. If you know you can do your work, the support of the home

crowd, as was seen with our gymnasts and athletes that the

London Olympics, it was a really big asset to them. Larisa Iordache

is definitely a bit disappointed. She gave it her everything. She

knows she needs to go back and work hard. There is Ruby Harrold

delighted with her performance. Some work to be done on the Bar's

there. 13.833 against Mustafina at 15.133. It was a massive jump on

the ace metric bars there. -- on the asymmetric bars. The you can

see great comradeship between all the gymnasts. They have competed

together, a lot of respect for each other and every gymnast works

exceptionally hard. You are not able to be at this level without

giving your whole life to it really. A lot of these gymnasts will have

trained with other gymnasts from other parts of the country. We used

to have training camps abroad with the French and the Russians. You

get a real camaraderie. When you go to competitions you want to win but

there is a real sense of comradeship and congratulating the

the women's all around the European Championships. Aliya Mustafina,

is well inside the top 10. Charlie Mustafina could do it and she did.

Yes, she is a very mature and experienced competitor now. She has

been there, done that and she knew what she needed to dig on all four

It is slightly gutting for Larisa Iordache to be leading for three

pieces and then suddenly... She obviously knew it was coming.

must have known bars was not her great peas but she gave herself

every opportunity to hold on to the lead. I think it was set up for

Mustafina in Russia. She was last up in the competition. She deserved

it. And Giulia Steingruber worth a mention. We said it halfway through

she has had her best piece of apparatus and she kept that

consistency. She really impressed me. She showed she is right up

there. She is definitely one to watch over the next couple of years.

Have vaults and floor work were amazing. It is great to see her

asymmetric bars have improved as well. She is one to watch. It is a

different discipline being an all- round gymnast as opposed to being a

specialist. For some delight Giulia Steingruber to work on those other

pieces, suddenly she's up there with the best in the world as well

as being a strong vaulter. That shows a true athlete. The ones who

can do the all-round and find a specialist peas and work on it

individually. She has done well to be up there with the Russians and

Romanians. She has done wonders for Switzerland and putting gymnastics

on the map in her country. Larisa Iordache, is it a case of

going back to the gym to hammer the bar work? As a said before,

Romanians are not known for their bar work. I'm sure they work just

as hard on that piece as every other piece, it just does not come

as naturally. I am sure she will be back in the gym working really hard

trying to improve that score. Mustafina, she is a beautiful

gymnast, that goes without question, style and elegance all the way

through. Not Justin had our work but floor work as well. Look at the

height that she gets. She is really impressive on floor. Very neat and

tidy and clean. There is not much deduction you can take on her floor

She knew that finishing on bars was good for her because it is her best

piece. And she was last up in her own country, in Russia. She will

have been feeling the pressure. So to go through the way she did is

You have that difficulty of how difficult you go against how

beautiful you go. I guess in the gym, you are constantly working

more difficult moves but you have got to be able to execute them.

Aliya Mustafina has always had the heart start values and the

difficult skills but as well as that, she has always been able to

perform them a beautifully and artistically with very few

deductions. Do you think she knew as soon as she landed, up Larisa

Iordache? That she was opening the door? I think she knew it wasn't

her best. There were a few tactical errors and deductions that she knew

-- her score. You will get to see a lot of that again in the individual

apparatus finals. They start for us again tomorrow. You cannot see us

-- you can join us on the red What is successful qualification

this has been. We wondered if there would be a bit of a hangover for

the Olympics but for Great Britain to come and make so many finals.

Definitely and it is great to see some new names. Lots of people will

not have heard of Ashley Watson and he has had lots of injuries. He has

been really unlucky the last few years. He has had some injury

setbacks but he has kept going and he has made the high bar final and

it is a special routine so he has every chance. Can he keep his

composure because he has not had that much experience of the world

stage? There will be a lack of experience but the other lads will

be trying to keep him calm, for him not to be looking for a medal but

to try to enjoy the experience. If he does well, it opens the door for

big internationals. If Max of the pommel horse, second highest

qualifier behind your good mate, in This is his all-around performance

He bends his legs, that gets him very close to Christian Berkeley.

The only thing you could possibly take off his his hands are not in

line. Where you put one hand in front of the other. Yes. You can

get a 10th of each circle, which can amount to quite a lot.

Literally, when it comes down to it, he has so much potential on the

pommel horse and it is fine-tuning. This was his final piece of

apparatus, the rings. Not the strongest of pieces but was it a

good one for him to finish on? think it was safe. You do not

really make too many mistakes on rings. For him it is better than

finishing on pommel horse and a high bar. It was a stable peace to

finish on. It is the random draw. You don't know where you will end

up finishing. It was a phenomenal all-around performance from him and

it was that method which he said, I was see what happens, and if you

now them at this level, it is surprising what can happen -- if

you Rik Mayall them. Exactly and he He really could do great things for

Great Britain in this sport and this is hopefully a platform on to

bigger and better things. You have bigger and better things. You have

made everybody realise what is possible and all the younger

gymnasts that are coming through. Look at the juniors. The strength

within the British team. It is incredibly exciting. The whole

point is to get the ball rolling. We wanted to encourage the kids and

show what is possible. The fact we can see Max and Ashley making

finals is brilliant. Congratulations, you first senior

European medal. Thank you. I am really happy with that. My aim was

to do a clean routine and I did that so I am really happy. You are

the highest qualifier in the qualifications coming into the

final but you were right up there. I am very happy with that score. I

am aiming for a bit higher but I am really happy with that, six clean

routines. For me to go into that in first place shows to myself that I

have got the potential. Whitlock finished behind David

Bailey Laski, who took the gold medal, and we can look at the