In fact have these two only 1 year difference in age:
One, Anja BRINKER (18) already gained since 5 years (JEM 2004) international experiences, was in the World Championship team 2007, in the Olympic squad 2008 and reached the top ten ranks in the European Championship in Milan - while the other 17 year old Susann HERBST will finally stand before her first international participation. It is about time, did she not lack a bit confidence at...
Concentrated atmosphere
The whole German national team joined Olympic participant Anja BRINKER and started their first joined training with the US team in the gym of the Rhenish Gymnastic Association.
Most of the gymnasts do not know each other yet because the Americans coming from the junior league did not participate in the US camp at the beginning of the year except Matti Larson. In spite of the own individual training, one does watch the guests and...
For the first time after the political changes the German women's gymnastics will have a friendly meet with the Olympic silver medallist of Beijing 2008, the national team of USA.
As DTB Sports Director Wolfgang Willam announced during the RTB awards ceremony in Bergisch-Gladbach, this match against the silver-medal winning team from the Beijing Olympics is to take place on 2 May at the RWE Rhein-Ruhr-Sports Hall in Muelheim.
After the DTB publishes the official German team members,...
The delegation of the US women's national team arrived in pouring rain, after a long journey over Houston, New York and Frankfurt/M. at the gymnastic school of the Rhenish Gymnastics Federation.
The coach Martha Karolyi declared that the only thing that can fight the jet lag successfully is a motivating training in spite of the tired faces.
And indeed: after only about half an hour you could find the US girls on the apparatus of the Rhenish...
Welcome in the RWE Rhein-Ruhr Sprts Hall ...
After the return of the German women's artistic gymnastics back to the "Olympic Family", the popularity of gymnastics was growing up, specially after the Olympic silver medal of Oksana Chusovitina in Beijing 2008.
So the Rhenish hosts (RTB) hopes for a sell-out arena, because it is the "Dual Meet of the Year" here in Germany...!
So it will worthwhile to try for tickets timely...!
The RTB give all information...