"Gymnastics: Tweddle at full stretch as she prepares to raise bar yet again" - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,28910-2421807,00.html [quote]Toxteth sports centre in Liverpool was a shelter of warmth but also hard work as rain pelted down outside. This is where Tweddle comes six days a week to train for up to six hours a day in a sport in which Britain has little tradition. In the 1930s, London County Council actually destroyed apparatus, believing, wrongly, that gymnastics made you muscle-bound. The sport has taken decades to recover. Amanda Kirby, Tweddle

it sure is!

It's kind of like how the Karloyi's came to the USA and changed the gymnastics programs too! but it's kind of getting to the point of over training now perhaps, with all the camps.

great comparison!

More on Tweddle: "Tweddle targets historic gold in Beijing" - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/sport/othersports.html?in_article_id=415092&in_page_id=1771&ito=1490 Very interesting article, goes through her injuries she has overcome and still works around - like she tumbles a lot on tumble trak and doesn't do certain skills, like double back on beam, so she doen't land backwards on her feet. Also funny too, she shares a flat with 2 guys and they're messy and she's the neat one, and they wrote her ""Congrats," it read, "we will tidy the house as a reward." Also: "Tweddle reveals the scars that made her a world beater" - http://sport.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1941052,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=7 and "My School Sport: Beth Tweddle" - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2006/11/07/sosch307.xml

Tweddle's coach gets UK Female Coach of the Year award: Article: "Tweddle coach honoured with award Tweddle claimed Britain's first ever world gold medal Amanda Kirby, who guided gymnast Beth Tweddle to World Championship gold in October, was among the winners at the 2006 Coaching Awards in London." http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/6175923.stm

here's another article on Tweddle: "Gymnastics: At last, Tweddle is a British gymnast who can clear bars Beth's gold rush brings welcome relief and revitalises a flagging pursuit" - http://sport.independent.co.uk/general/article2099938.ece