<< Former world champion and European champion Lambertus (Yuri) van Gelder (NED) made a successful return winning the still rings title. Van Gelder was suspended for one year in 2009 after testing positive for cocaine.
But the Chinese national all-around champion Guo Weiyang (22) won half the men's finals as the Ghent World Cup concluded in Belgium on Sunday, September 12 and finished with titles on pommel horse, parallel bars and high bar in Ghent.
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After the comeback of Octavian Belu and Mariana Bitang after 5 years absence at the top of the Romanian women's squad the present chief coach Prof. Nicolae FORMINTE declared his withdrawl from his job.
The 54 years old Romanian expert of women's artistic gymnastics and full-fledged national coach with a long line of successes is seeking for a new big and siutable challenge, but outside of his homeland Romania ...
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Mattie Larson of Los Angeles, Calif., won the senior all-around competition at the 2010 CoverGirl Classic at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago, Ill..
In the junior session earlier at Saturday, July 24, 2010 Pacific Rim Championships junior all-around champion Jordyn Wieber of DeWitt, Mich., won the junior all-around title.
With an all-around score of 57.150, Larson, who trains at All Olympia Gymnastics, claimed the senior all-around title with a second place finish on floor exercise...
The Houston Chronical reports this week, that the 2004 all-around Olympic gold medalist Paul HAMM (27) plans to return to competition 2011 January in hopes of qualifying for the USA Gymnastics men's national team and competing at the 2012 London Olympics.
Paul Hamm said to the media, that he has left his job in the financial industry and hopes to train at his old gym in his hometown of Waukesha, Wis., (USA) or at the Olympic Training...
Disruption of drumhead instead of Bathing Fun!
Last weekend the Swiss Olympic Champion on pommel horse (1996, Atlanta)
Chinese provenance, Donghua Li, pushed to his envelope at the so called "Wake&Jam-Festival" at Murtensee (Switzerland):
At the "Blob-Jumping" he risked boldly jumps into the cool wet, but the effekt was: a disruption of his drumhead and a ban aof bathing for the next weeks ...
* the Swiss Television presented:
>> Donghua Li and...