10. Juli 2010
Switzerland
Artistic Gymnastics

Disruption of drumhead instead of Bathing Fun!
Last weekend the Swiss Olympic Champion on pommel horse (1996, Atlanta) 
Chinese provenance, Donghua Li, pushed to his envelope at the so called  "Wake&Jam-Festival" at Murtensee (Switzerland): 
At the "Blob-Jumping" he risked boldly jumps into the cool wet, but the effekt was: a disruption of his drumhead and a ban aof bathing for the next weeks ...
* the Swiss Television presented:  
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Donghua Li and...

9. Juli 2010
Ottawa, Canada
Artistic Gymnastics

In a meeting in Ottawa, Canada the Technical Committee of mens artistic gymnastics of the World Gymnastics Federation F.I.G. acknowledged the "new floor element" of the European Champion Matthias FAHRIG from Halle, and gave this element the highest possible degree of difficulty - "G" (Value: 0.7). Therewith the "Fahrig"-Salto in double twist followed by one and a half twist, which was displayed in tucked position for the first time last weekend at the Japan Cup...

4. Juli 2010
Guildford, Great Britain
Artistic Gymnastics

British Champion City of Liverpool’s Hannah Whelan produced a superb performance to take the 2010 Senior Women’s All-around title from the Guildford Spectrum.
Beijing Olympian Hannah, having recently returned to action after a wrist injury took the most prestigious honour of the British calendar scoring 57.800.
Hannah said: “ I’m really, really happy! I didn’t have any aims or expectations coming into the competition. So to then go out and win is just incredible. I’ve...

4. Juli 2010
Tokyo, Japan
Artistic Gymnastics

At the first event day host Japan won the men's team competition of the 2010 JAPAN CUP in Tokyo with a score of 276,100 points and a differenece of more than nine points in front of team Germany, scoring 266,900 points, followed by  USA on third (265,400), Great Britain, Korea ...
At the Sunday's all-around final the Olympic silver medallist and reigning world champion Kohei UCHIMURA was unbeatable (93,450). The Asian Champion of 2008 Doha, Koji YAMAMURO...

20. Juni 2010
Porto, Portugal
Artistic Gymnastics

The 7th artistic gymnastic world cup event of the 2010 circuit takes place this weekend in Porto, at the Portuguese island of Madeira.
Specially the men's field is a strong concurrence: After the Friday's qualification round the Brasilian Diego Hypolito leads on floor, but the Romanian Flavius Koczi (ROU) beat him at the final part I at Saturday and won also the vault final on Sunday; all the othe finals were won by Chineses:  Guo Weiyang on pommel...

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