8. Januar 2015
Guadalajara, MEX
Artistic Gymnastics
Mexican gymnast Romero was murdered ...

Two-time Mexican world team member Jaime ROMERO (22 years) is being mourned following his shocking murder last Saturday on the streets of Guadalajara, Jalisco. Romero was shot and killed along with a friend, Raúl Trejo Santos (23). Witnesses report that the two friends became involved in an argument in the early morning hours with a group of men, who shot them and fled in two vehicles, the police stated. The Mexican Gymnastics Federation (FMG) and the Mexican Olympic Committee were...

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7. Januar 2015
Hanoi, Viet Nam
Artistic Gymnastics
Vietnamese Gymnast Nguyen Ha Thanh announces retirement

Hanoian artistic gymnast NGUYEN Ha Thanh has decided to retire from competitive sports at the age of 26 years to focus on coaching. SEA Games winner Thanh, who is one of many such athletes residing in the capital, said to the press he is unlikely to recover his old athleticism after his knee surgery and would therefore like to coach the Ha Noi team instead. Nguyen Ha Than participated at the World Championships Rotterdam (2010), Tokyo (2011) and Antwerp (2013)Thanh...

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30. Dezember 2014
U S A
Artistic Gymnastics
Raisman Returns! - The 2012 Olympic champ talks London, comeback and more

Aly Raisman thinks about how she lost an Olympic all-around medal due to a tiebreaker “all the time” and uses it as motivation in her comeback. Raisman (20), finished tied for third with Russian Aliya Mustafina in the 2012 London Olympic all-around. Both scored 59.566. The tiebreaker meant subtracting each gymnast’s lowest score from the four apparatuses. That tiebreaker favored Mustafina, dropping Raisman to fourth. Raisman returned to a U.S. national team training camp in October for the first time in more than two...

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19. Dezember 2014
U S A
Artistic Gymnastics
Mary-Lou Retton and the 2015 AT&T American Cup

3rd World Cup of the Circuit 2014/15

<< Mary-Lou Retton is an American former gymnast. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she won five medals, including gold in the individual all-around competition. Her performance made her one of the most popular athletes in the United States.

The USA Gymnastics Federation presents and publishes just now a video statement from her, speaking about the upcoming big international highlight in the next year, the 2015 "AT&T AMERICAN...

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19. Dezember 2014
Moscow, Russia
Artistic Gymnastics
21st Mikhail Voronin Cup 2014

The last International Artistic Gymnastics Tournament of the year, the 21st Mikhail Voronin Cup 2014, wrapped up in Moscow on December 17.
During the two days of the annual event, gymnasts including 87 men and 53 women competed for the medals.
Russia's Ekaterina KRAMARENKO won the all-around title with  a score of 55.650 points to take gold leaving Kristina Kruglikova with silver (52.850) and Anna Pavlova, who now competes for Azerbaijan, with bronze (51,700). Russia...

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