The International Gymnastics Federation announced yesterday, that the Spanish Olympic champion (vault, 2000 Sydney) Gervasio Deferr will be stripped of his last world silver medal (floor, Debrecen 2002) because of a positiv drug test (marijuana) prior to world championships last autumn.
Deferr was test positive for marijuana at both the Spanish Championships and subsequent French International. The Spanish Sports Council suspended Deferr for three months in the spring of 2003., but now the FIG Disciplinary Commission announced Deferr's three...

Swiss gymnastics arrived allready in Los Angeles, though they are not talking about the Swiss national team, leaving on august 8th for the world championship. The gymnasts they refer to are the best ones from the Swiss club BTV Lucerne, lead by Bruno Nietlispach, choach of the Olympic champion Li Donghua.
Anaheim will be the start of a tour trough California, during which they will meet the best Californien teams, the top fight gym and the Stanford gyms...