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Welcome to Gymcastic episode 7.

I am Jessica Byrne from Masters Hyphen Gymnastics. And I'm joined by

Blife Lawrence from the Gymnastics Examiner Spanny Tamsen from Spani's big fake

smile Uncle Tim from Uncle Tim Talks Men's Gym.

Givora Myers from unorthodox gymnastics.

We are bringing you an excellent interview with Paul Ruggieri today and he, Paul Ruggieri is definitely character. He has a lot to say and he was, we were very entertained during this interview and he's a really good sport I have to say. We had a lot of fun interviewing him. I want to remind you guys that we are now on Stitcher. You can

download the app, receive you have it in your car. Tell us how you like it. We're on iTunes. We are going to talk a little bit today about what's new in the news. We have a lot of

listener feedback to discuss and then we're going to talk about Halloween, costume ideas

for our contests coming up.

So with that I'm going to send it over to Blythe to talk about the news.

What's going on in the news this week?

The Northern European Championships took place in Glasgow last weekend and they were won by

Helge Vaman of Denmark and Ida Gustafsson of Sweden who also won the all-around at the

2011 Northern European Championships.

It's a smaller competition, obviously only open to Northern European countries,

but it is annual and it is very big.

What struck me about this meet mostly was how the young Northern European

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