Cuba and China are enlarging their cooperation in sports as part of the preparation of athletes from both countries for the Olympic Games of Beijing next summer. Vice president of the Cuban Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER), Sen. Angel Iglesias, told the press that groups of Cuban athletes will participate in 19 training camps in the Asian country while Chinese athletes will compete in several tournaments on the island. China will be represented for the first...

The international gymnastics community has lost one of its most respected members and an exceptional person.

Karl-Heinz ZSCHOCKE, the former head coach of the GDR artitic gymnastics men's team and long-standing president of the Technical Committee for Men's Gymnastics of the International Gymnastics Federation (F.I.G.), who in the last few years was its honorary vice president, died after a short, serious illness in a Berlin hospital on Saturday evening....