Brazil’s Olympic champion Zanetti buoyed by home support

The USA, the Netherlands and Romania scheduled to compete Monday, with the teams with the best eight scores earning an automatic spot in the 2016 Olympics.

The Glasgow event also acts as a qualifier for Rio and a top-eight finish in the men’s team event will guarantee the squad a ticket to Brazil. Wilson isn’t at that level but does have 15,000 followers, a medal bearer student girlfriend in Sophie Brewster and a recent high profile TV appearance on a Question of Sport.

“We wanted to just do our jobs today and let the judges take care of us”, Smith said.

The 25-year-old was a surprise victor at the 2012 London Games but has since become one of the world’s most recognised gymnasts.

The siblings head to Glasgow – the scene of last year’s Commonwealth Games which saw Becky pick up a pair of gold medals.

Gallagher also said:”I congratulate and wish all the gymnasts, coaches and support staff all the best as the focus now shifts to the Rio Test Event in April 2016″.

“It’s been a relentless and rollercoaster year so it’s awesome feeling to make the team”, said Wilson. I knew it was going to be a challenge but I love a challenge and I always rise to a challenge.

“We’re all just excited to get back out there in the team final”.

“I feel I made a few improvements and my team did really well so I’m happy about that”, said Onyshko.

As if to prove the 2012 victory was not a one-off, the British men’s team finished the fourth in the 2014 worlds in Nanning, China. The programme provides vital work experience opportunities to time-served apprentices who have encountered difficulty in finding employment. Now, they’re almost equal to the men. The British women’s team of Becky Downie, Ellie Downie, Ruby Harrold, Claudia Fragapane, Amy Tinkler and Kelly Simm placed third; our best ever result in qualifying for an Olympic Games. Enquiring whether she might indulge in a celebratory tipple prompted much raucous laughter among her team-mates.

Their total tally of 354.417 made them early leaders, but the final standings will not be confirmed until tomorrow evening when all the countries have competed. Beating China in a major global team competition is the thing that keeps him going, the lone hole in Uchimura’s peerless resume. Heady territory for a group now rubbing shoulders with its men’s program. “I think it’s great that they all so strong now because it used to be the women so we kind of bounce off each other”.