6. Oktober 2004
Saarbrücken
Artistic Gymnastics
Misiutin on the way to Germany

Grigori Misiutin (UKR), Olympic Champion from 1992 and recently head coach of the Ukrainian junior team which won the bronze medal at the European Championships in Ljubljana this year, wants to move to Saarland/ Germany.
The main reason for this is that his wife Yevgenia recently has obtained German citizenship. Her parents have been living in the city Saarbrücken for a couple of years already....

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6. Oktober 2004
Indianapolis / Chicago, USA
Artistic Gymnastics
2004 Olympic champions on T.J. Maxx tour

From September 18 on the T.J. Maxx Tour of Gymnastics Champions is on tour across the USA, featuring members of the 2004 U. S. Olympic Team. The high-flying T.J. Maxx tour format combines elements of Cirque du Soleil-style modern performance art with elite gymnastics to push the boundaries of athleticism and gymnastics to all-new levels. The Tour is runnning September 18 to November 28 and will stopp in 39 cities....

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5. Oktober 2004
Pulheim-Brauweiler / Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
German Olympic Champion Helmut Bantz passed away...

With great sadness, the German gymnastics family informs, that Mr. Helmut BANTZ, the European Champion on parallel bars at the first continental championships (Frankfurt 1955) and the Olympic champion on vault in Melbourne (1956) passed away, in his hometown near Cologne, yesterday.
Helmut Bantz was a long time coach and teacher at the Sports College of Cologne and generations of students got their knowledges from him...
It's a big loss for the German gymnastics family...
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2. Oktober 2004
Bukarest / Rumänien
Artistic Gymnastics
Retired: Ban and Stroescu

Five weeks only after winning the Olympic gold medal with their team in Athens the Romanian top gymnasts Oana BAN and Silvia STROESCU degleared their retirement from international top sport
The reasons are continuing injuries in the last years.

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28. September 2004
Lausanne /Switzerland
Artistic Gymnastics
Olympic Champion Hamm would accept CAS decision

Will Hamm return his medal...?
Olympic all-around champion Paul Hamm had to appear in a hearing of the International Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) in Lausanne where he met again his Olympic competitor Yang, Tae Young. Four weeks after the Olympic Games in Athens ended the highest court for sports issues now takes care of the case of the US- gymnast. South Korea had informed the CAS on the mistake of the judges already during the Olympic Games.
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