Full Twist has been offering up great coverage of the Glasgow World Cup this weekend. Like the American cup this was an all-around competition based on rankings from the Rotterdam worlds. And like the American cup, this led to a rather small and rather weak field.
Many of the athletes had hot-footed it to Glasgow straight from the Europeans last weekend. The non-European exceptions being American cup champion Jonathan Horton and Venezuela's Jessica Lopez.
In the Men's event Daniel Purvis of GB was the cleanest competitor and took gold ahead of European champ Philip Boy after Boy sat down his double-front vault. Even better news for GB was that 2009 World AA silver medallist Daniel Keatings making his return to competition after an ACL tear last year. As keatings was competing as a wild card his scores were not counted in the official rankings, but he would have finished a very respectable 4th. USA's Jonathan Horton was nowhere near the form that won him the American Cup, making errors on 3 apparatus and finishing 7th.
In the women's competition too there were errors from most, but Amelia Racea of Romania held out to win the event ahead of Jessica Lopez and romanian teammate Raluca Haidu, who looks significantly matured (and a bit taller!) than when we saw her in Rotterdam. The GB girls Hannah Whelan and Jennifer Pinches both had a messy outing and will have to put this one down to experience, finishing 5th and 8th. Many of the GB girls are headed to Mexico now for a training camp in the sun.
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