Great Britain's Olympic team bronze medallist Sam Oldham says he is in good form and high on confidence as the senior British men’s gymnastics team aim to defend their European title in Sofia. Sam, who took European high bar silver last year says his build up has gone really well as he readies himself for competition, Sam said: “My form is really good, it’s been a nice slow build up as I have lots of new routines but I seemed to have timed things nicely and my consistency is on a high at the moment, so I’m in a positive mind-set and really looking forward to competing. It’s always a challenge to get the balance between difficulty and consistency. At the start of the year you always have to look at what you can do to up your game and then make those changes as solid as possible and I feel I’ve done that. I’m feeling fit and healthy and in good shape.

Such European Championships like these here in Sofia are also a perfect meeting point to cultivate frienships and share expieriences with colleagues, such these high qulified experts and European coaches ...


... in the red jacket the longtime Bulgarian coach and partner of world star Jordan Iovtchev, Milko TANKUSHEV, in his track already his son is (left) ... or in the middle the both Serbian coaches Jakob MATIC and Dusan MAROVIC, but also Greece's coachBOTAKIS (rightmost); with it is also CHIN from Slowenia,  Vladimir DRACULIC (SRB) and HODJIC (SLO).