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This is episode 41 for July 24th, 2013.

I'm Jessica from Masters Gymnastics.

I'm Blythe from the Gymnastics Examiner. I'm Uncleithe from the Gymnastics Examiner.

I'm Uncle Tim from Uncle Tim Talks Men's Gym.

This is the only gymnastics podcast ever in the history of the galaxy

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Jim turnet. So Blithe you were at the European Youth Olympic Festival, the

EYOF as they say. So for those of us who have never been or haven't heard of this before,

can you tell us a little bit about the event as an annual?

What are the age groups?

Well, I really have to thank the Jimternet for giving this competition, I think, a lot more prestige.

This is something like its 17th edition, so it's been going on for quite a while, it happens every two years actually the year

after and the year before the Olympic Games and the purpose is to kind of serve

as almost a replacement for the junior European Championships which didn't happen this year.

In 2011 it was held in Turkey in Trapezon and in 2009 it was held in Tampere in Finland and in both of those meets you saw people

emerge who we would see quite a lot more of later. In 2009 the big star of the show was David Beliavsky, who of course is now the

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