So I couldn’t let tonight go without mention. Just in case you didn’t catch it on my facebook or twitter feed, I was muchly cheered up tonight by the lads of British Gymnastics redeeming themselves from their mistake riddled performance at the World Championships Qualifying rounds.

Today they kicked some serious ass at the Olympic Test Event (the final qualifying round) and won the team competitition by almost 8 full points. The score they got today would have qualified them 4th to team finals in Tokyo. If that wasn’t enough my star of Tokyo (behind Kohei Uchimura of course), Daniel Purvis won the all-around, plus 2nd and 3rd place also went to British Gymnasts Kristian Thomas and Daniel Keatings.

All I can say is a HUGE well done. This is the first time since 1984 that Team GB will have sent a full mens AND womens team to the Olympics (and due to the Cold War the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles were boycotted by several countries who were pretty unrivalled in gymnastics).

I am soooo excited, and the fact that I’m not going to live my dream to see the competition in person when it’ll be just south of the border makes me want to cry.

Max Whitlock made his debut as a Senior at this event, and ranked 1st on Pommel horse – even ahead of his team captain, 2008 Olympic & 2011 World Bronze Medallist, Louis Smith. Go Max!