Last week Great Britain’s Louis SMITH joined some other stars of the GBR sporting world to promote BMW as the official automotive partner of the London 2012 Games. The initiative is designed to support the Team GB Olympic and Paralympic athletes as they prepare for the Games.
Initially 12 athletes have been chosen to join the BMW London 2012 Performance Team but the number will rise to 25 over the next few months.
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Concentration of operational management in Aarau
The Central Executive Committee of the Swiss Gymnastics Federation (STV) intends to integrate the operational management of Swiss Cup Zurich more strongly in its own federation structures. The Executive Committee made this decision after discussions with the Organisational Committee management. The Central Executive Committee acknowledges the major development which this international gymnastics event has experienced in the past three years. At the same time, the Executive Committee of the Swiss Gymnastics Federation...
The "Dutch Royal Gymnastics Union" (KNGU) has decided to give gymnast the former World Champion on still rings, Yuri van Gelder, another chance to return to top-level gymnastics. The decision is the result of negotiations between Yuri van Gelder and KNGU representatives. The negotiations were held after mediation by sports umbrella organisation NOC*NSF. Yuri van Gelder - nicknamed 'The Lord of the Rings' - returned to gymnastics this summer after being suspended for a year for cocaine abuse.
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The team member of the US OLympic squad Sasha ARTEMEV plans a comeback at the 2011 Winter Cup in February, so the US magazine "International Gymnast" reports.
Nearly two years after a car accident (April 2009) left him with a broken back, world and Olympic bronze medalist on pommel horse (Beijing 2008) Sasha Artemev (25) is aiming for a full comeback at February's national Winter Cup in Las Vegas, and Artemev said he "definitely" plans...
The Jordanian gymnast Ali Al Asi has been just crowned Best Arab Athlete 2010 by HE Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Governor of Dubai and Deputy of the United Arab Emirates, at its recent meeting in Dubai.
With this award, Ali goes down as a legend in Arab sports.
He owes this honour to his outstanding Rings results for the 2010 season and, more particularly, to the title he claimed over Japan’s Kazuki Machida, China’s...