For the third time in this new millenium - after 2000 and 2001 - the unique Canadian movement circus "Cirque du Soleil" is giving guest performances of its show "QUIDAM" in London, the host city of the next Olympic Summer Games in 2012, but not in a special tent, as is usual. Instead, the cosmopolitan ensemble is performing in the time-honoured "Royal Albert Hall".
The only German artiste in the show is Tony MEVIUS, who has already celebrated his 1,000th performance ...
Today we received our first greetings from the training camp of the German women's national team in Plano (Tenn./USA), sent to us by Anja BRINKER (TV Herkenrath; 2nd from left) who represented Germany in the last Olympic Games.
At the "WOGA", the training centre of Nastia LIUKIN (2nd from right), Olympic all-around champion at Beijing 2008, the Rhineland gymnast is more than just close to the gymnast she most looks up to and is getting a real motivation boost just a few...
Finnish Gymnastics Federation (Svoli) has appointed former top gymnast Jani TANSKANEN (33) as Technical Director for men’s artistic gymnastics.
The World Champion on high bar 1997 (Lausanne) is a familiar face to international gymnastics scene thanks to his long career as a gymnast.
Tanskanen competed in all eleven World Championships from 1994 (Brisbane) up to the 2007 Worlds in Stuttgart.
He also participated in numerous world cup events < photo left: World Cup...
As was reported last week, the German national women's gymnastics squad is setting off today for Piano (Tenn./USA) where they will train at the "WORLD OLYMPIC GYMNASTICS ACADEMY' (WOGA) run by Valeri Liukin, whose daughter Nastia wrote history in 2008 by winning overall gold at the Olympics.
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The group also includes Herkenrath coach Oleg CHEKMAREV, who trains Anja Brinker, the only member of the 2008 German Olympic team to be participating in the training camp....
* Ö F T --: Just under two years after her last competition at the World Cup in Cottbus in March 2007, which ended sadly with a torn cruciate ligament, Austrian gymnast Sandra Mayer has now drawn a line under her career as an active gymnast and in the last week of January 2009 announced her retirement from international competition.
The 20-year old who won the Austrian national championships six times was the first Austrian gymnast to win a World Cup...