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How can I follow the European Gymnastics Championships?

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Yes, my pet cat Harry enjoys watching gymnastics.  Here, he is enjoying live streaming of the team competition at last year's Universiade in Kazan.  He especially likes Epke Zonderland on the high bar, so he hasn't inherited my liking of all things Russian, even though his face, with high cheekbones, green eyes and a rosebud mouth, looks quite regal and Russian to me.  Traitor.

TV and online coverage of this year's Europeans isn't bad if you are in the UK, though it seems to be exclusively of the senior finals and the organising committees don't yet seem to have picked up on the fact that there are hordes of us across the world who would probably pay good money for the privilege of watching live streaming of podium training, qualifications and the junior events.  Still, I am old enough to remember 1985, when I had to tune into the BBC World Service at 3am to find out that Elena Shushunova and Oksana Omelianchik had shared the world title, and still then had to wait another week, wondering what had happened to my favourites Natalia Yurchenko and Olga Mostepanova, before I could watch recorded highlights of the competition on ITV at about midnight on Wednesday.  Mustn't grumble.

The UEG will be live streaming senior finals and will Twitter and Facebook live updates on other days.  I don't know if this includes podium training, the juniors, or if it will be up to the level of detail that most of us seem to need.  Nor do I know yet which of the bloggers will be there, but watch this post as I will update as we go.  

The main page for all the UEG information is here - 
http://www.ueg.org/en/European-Artistic-Gymnastics-Championships-in-Sofia-How-to-follow-the-competition-2014-05-10-0000

The organiser website is here - http://www.sofiagymnastics2014.com

The organisers have a Facebook page which they are already updating with pictures of the arena and the arriving delegations - Romania is just about the first.  They seem to know what fans want, so it's worth watching.  
https://www.facebook.com/pages/2014-Sofia-European-Mens-and-Womens-Artistics-Gymnastics-Championships/640569109298157?ref=stream

There is also a Twitter account @2014SofiaECH.  The hashtag for posts about Europeans is #EChSofia2014.

The WAG schedule is here - http://www.ueg.org/files/news/editor/files/Planning%20GAF%281%29.pdf

MAG schedule here - http://www.ueg.org/files/news/editor/files/Planning%20GAM%20def%281%29.pdf

Competition draw (WAG) - http://www.sportgymrus.ru/Admin/GetFile.ashx?get=1&id=56367

Nominative registrations (WAG) - http://www.sportgymrus.ru/Admin/GetFile.ashx?get=1&id=56369

Finally, the UEG has published the TV broadcast schedules across several European countries, so you can look up your local transmitter here - http://www.ueg.org/files/news/editor/files/UEG_20140508_OUT_Broadcast%20Intentions_MAG_WAG%202014_v2%20-%20Copie%20pour%20News%281%29.pdf

Or, if you have good eyesight, here :


Enjoy!

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  1. Alyssia11 May 2014 at 11:11

    I assume Longines will do the scoring again, so hopefully they will have livescoring up here (you'd have to have Java): http://live.swisstiming.com/CisWebApp/

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