Despite the ongoing controversy between the Ukraine Gymnastics Federation (UGF)  and the 1980 Olympic Champion Stella ZAKHAROVA last weekend took place the "8th Intern. Stella Sakharova Cup 2009" in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, independently of the UGF. Last fall, which announced, that the federation would not sanction the competition.
Israelian Alexander Shatilov (87,400) and Byelorussian junior Galina Ivanets  (53.550) won the all-around competitions...

*fig press: -- Established as early as 1881, making it the oldest established sport federation in the world, the International Gymnastics Federation (F.I.G.) officially inaugurated its new Head Office in Lausanne yesterday in the presence of International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge, FIG Executive Committee members and the Federation’s President Professor Bruno Grandi (ITA).
Back in October of 2005, the F.I.G. decided to transfer its Head Office from Moutier to Lausanne after having dismissed the idea of opening its...