Needing a top eight finish after the two day qualification competition the girls scored a total of 227.162 points to not only seal Olympic qualification but also power though to Tuesday’s team final.
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Azerbaijan’s squad at the championships includes Oleg Stepko, Petr Pakhnukh, Yulia Inshina, Mariya Smirnova and Marina Nekrasova.
He has seven years to reach 26-year-old Smith’s stardom but stresses: “He’s got his profile from winning Olympic medals and world medals”.
The men’s team is on track to advance to the world championship finals after finishing third in qualifying behind Japan and China on Sunday.
Zanetti is now in Glasgow for the World Championships where Brazil is aiming to qualify for the Olympic men’s team event for the first time.
The European Sports Championships are being funded by The Scottish Government and Glasgow City Council, with the EventScotland team within VisitScotland’s Events Directorate leading on preparations for the golf event on behalf of Scotland.
“At this world championships, a lot of people’s eyeballs are bugging out of their head going: ‘Ellie Black – wow”.
The Glasgow Worlds are unique in that they are the first where the judges will evaluate exercises seated inconspicuously off the field of play.
During podium training on Monday, the sextet – and alternate Charlie Fellows – looked in stellar form.
“I think we can make an impact in the final, I think that we have got a great team and we can be up there with any other country”.
“We have great leadership from Ellie… and it’s really nice to be able to select from a larger pool of athletes”, he said.
Bernard Murphy, managing director of The Gleneagles Hotel, said: “At Gleneagles we have a proud tradition of innovation within the game of golf, including hosting the very first match between British and American professionals back in 1921, sowing the first seeds of the event that went on to become The Ryder Cup”.
“To be going round together this time as a team is going to be really special”. We will likely be just in or just out of the top eight.
The only real drama during Britain’s session came in the race to see who would join teammate Daniel Purvis in the all-around final on Friday.
“I just go on A Question of Sport and things TV-related and just try and be myself as much as I can”. We didn’t make many mistakes.
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“It’s massive, massive, massive inspiration”, said Wilson, now 19 and on the national team.
