Britain’s rhythmic gymnast team has appealed its their exclusion from the Olympics, accusing their governing body of misinforming them, according to the BBC.

They narrowly missed a target score set by British Gymnastics at the Olympic test event last Tuesday, and were then told they could not go to the Games.

However, the team exceeded that target the next day and now say they were not informed Tuesday was the cut-off point.

“We believed we could achieve it on any of the three days,” said Rachel Smith.

Team captain Smith told BBC Radio 5 live: “We did the routine on the Monday and Tuesday and just missed out [scoring 44.950, with the target set at 45.223].

“After that routine we were told immediately that that was it, that was our last chance.

“We went through on Wednesday to smash the score by two whole marks [47.200].”

More than 2,000 people have signed a petition in support of the girls. Fingers crossed that their appeal is successful!