Carl Lewis for Ronny Ziesmer
The World star of athletics and nine-time Olympic Champion from the USA Carl Lewis took part in a support- campaign for the injured gymnast Ronny Ziesmer in the studio of the German TV- station “ARD” today. He suggested to use inches and not centimeters for calculating the value of the width of his standing long- jump into Euros. His 27.10 inches will bring the amount of 8,500 EUR to the account for donations...
Today: Gymnastics highlights - part I !
The closing highlights of the Olymic artistic gymnastics competitions traditionally take place on Sunday (Aug. 22nd) and Monday (Aug. 23rd).
On Sunday the men compete in Athen's Olympic Hall on floor, pommel horse and rings,
the women start on vault and on uneven bars...
GYMmedia reports from about 7.00 pm CET on...
Three judges suspended...
Athens, 20-Aug: -- The F.I.G. pronounced on it's website, that after the Artistic Gymnastics Men’s All-Around Final, the Chef de Mission of the Korean Delegation to the Athens 2004 Olympic Games claimed, that the Korean Gymnast Yang Tae Young (Start Number 185) received the wrong start value on Parallel Bars. The gymnast was given a start value of 9.9, instead of a 10. This judges’ error is confirmed by the FIG.
The FIG Rules do...
After she took the lead in the 3rd rotation, the best gymnast from the qualification Carly Patterson (USA) in the end was celebrated as the new Olympic Champion in the women’s all-around. With the score of 38.387 she secured her victory with 0.176 points in front of Svetlana Chorkina (RUS) who was very happy about the all-around silver medal in her third Olympic Games.
Her team mate Anna Pavlova lost the bronze medal on the last apparatus to the...
Olympic gymnastics king - Hamm is successor of Nemov
In an exciting Olympic all-around final with great performances but also dramatic falls of various favourites in the end World Champion Paul Hamm (USA) took the lead with the score of 57.837 despite of a fall on vault.
He overtook Korea’s KIM, Dae Eun who presented a faultless all-around (57.811) and his team mate Yang, Tae Young (57.648).
As well the Japanese gymnasts as also one...