Beth Tweddle insists that Britain's Got talent

By Gerard Meagher, Sportsbeat

DOUBLE world champion Beth Tweddle insists Britain's got talent and she believes gymnastics is set to snowball its way closer to mainstream sport.

FLYING HIGH: Beth Tweddle has been in excellent recent form, capturing double gold at the European Championships in Birmingham last month (Getty Images)

Tweddle clinched world gold in the floor exercise at the O2 Arena last October and followed that up with double gold at the European Championships in Birmingham last month.

The 25-year-old, who won her first world title on the asymmetric bars in 2006, is a veteran in the GB ranks but she also helped a youthful squad to team silver in Birmingham.

That's not the only success Great Britain have been enjoying recently with Daniel Keatings taking all-around silver, a year after Louis Smith's Olympic pommel horse bronze in Beijing.

In Birmingham Keatings took pommel horse gold ahead of Smith, who took silver, while Great Britain juniors swept the board with four titles.

And Tweddle is convinced that gymnastic clubs the length and breadth of the country are seeing increases in membership.

"From what I've heard there are more people joining clubs across the country," said Tweddle, who will compete at the British Championships in Guildford this weekend.

"And people have come up to me and told me that they've got into gymnastics after watching us on TV.

"It's a really rewarding feeling and I think it's largely down to the two big events being hosted on home soil.

"It also helps to prepare us for London 2012. Some of the girls in the squad are pretty young so to get that experience of a home crowd was important.

"For me London 2012 was always on the cards I think. There wasn't one moment that I remember sitting down and deciding to continue but while I still love going to the gym then I was always going to continue."