Along the lines of the schedule of the men's first preliminary competitions, which form the beginning of the Olympic gymnastics competitions on Saturday, the offical podium training took place divided in three groups on Wednesday.
At 12.30 h France, Romania, Italy and Canada started, at 16.30 h Russia, Spain and USA followed and in the evening group at 20.30 h Korea, Germany, Japan and World Champion China performed for the first time on the Olympic podium in the competition hall ....

Olympic debut at the age of 20

Vice European All-around Champion Rafael Martinez is one of the new big hopes of the Spanish men's national team in Athens now.

Next to the wellknown international experts like Jesus and Manuel Carballo, Gervasio Deferr and in the team with Victor Cano, Allejandro Barronechea, he dreams to be under the best eight Olympians at the Games in Athens and also from the floor final...

At the national...