FIG-coaching seminar in the new Cuban center
Already since many years the FIG organises - with financial support by the IOC - coaching seminars all over the World.
One of these seminars now took place with 36 gymnastics coaches from Cuba, Mexico, Bolivia and Venezuela in a new Cuban gymnastics center. The seminar was led by Dieter Hofmann.
A Danish national artistic gymnastics team will give three weeks of performances beginning February 2 in Hanoi, the former imperial city of Hue, the central coastal city of Da Nang, Nha Trang resort and Ho Chi Minh City. This will be the delegation’s third visit to perform in Vietnam. The team was set up in 1993 under the initiative of the Danish Gymnastics and Sports Associations (DGI)....
Rumanian Olympic champion Catalina Ponor said in an interview for Rumanian Mediafax News Agency that she would be tempted to be part of the 'Cirque du Soleil' circus group, as she received a proposal in this respect while she was participating in last year's European Gymnastics Championships in Debrecen, Hungary....
The Russian Artistic Gymnastics Federation informed, that its Congress held on January 16 has elected a new President, Yuri Dedukh, a candidate proposed by the Russian Olympic Committee.
Yuri Titov, who replaced Leonid Arkaev in December 2004, remains at the Russian Federation as 1st Vice-president; Svetlana Khorkina was confirmed as vice-president....
The Rumanian press announced yesterday, that former national gymnastics coaches Octavian Belu and Mariana Bitang accepted the offer made by Romania's president Traian Basescu to become presidential advisors on sports related issues.
Octavian Belu accented, that it will be not a 'Good bye' to gymnastics....