The national women's artistic gymnastics team of Italy won at home the meet against a young team from Netherlands (Laura van Leeuwen, Mayra Kroonen, Gabriëlla Wammes, Evi Neijssen, Loes Linders and Nathalie Bletterman) with 143,400 to 137,300 points. Great Britain came on tgird(133,475), Israel on fourth place (119,525.).
One week before the Eight-Nations-Cup in Groningen (NL) Verona van de Leur (feet injury in Thessaloniki), Monique Nuijten und Renske Endel (Infectious disease) are not ready for action.

China's National Sports Department has cancelled all competitions in May, so International Gymnast pronounced.
The National Sports Department held an emergency meeting, discussing the present condition of Guang Zhao, Beijing, and other cities areas dealing with rising numbers of SARS cases. The decision was made to cancel or postpone all national Chinese sporting events.
Cancelled are China's plans to send five female gymnasts next week to the 8-Country Meet in Groningen, Netherlands, as well as a separate exchange...