Brett McClure ascended the top of the podium last Friday at the Men's Winter Cup Challenge, held at the Las Vegas Sports Center in Las Vegas/Nev. His score of 54.950 points in the first session held up through the second session of competitors, with Jason Gatson taking top honors in the second session and second place overall with 54.450 points.
Last weekend took place the traditional 20th anniversary of 'Day of Artistic Gymnastics' in the German center Niederwoerresbach. In was also a hearty met of the former worldstars of artistic gymnastics Larissa Klimenko-Petrik, Olympic champion on floor 1968 in Mexico-City and the silver medalist (vault) Erika Zuchold from Leipzig. The reason was the opening of an exhibition of the painter Erika Zuchold. Larissa and her husband Victor Klimenko, Olympic Champion 1972 (Munich) are working as coaches in Niederwoerresbach/Germany
Two month after the last World Championships in Debrecen/Hungary the German judge, Mr. Bernhard Schwermann wrote an articel about the problems of the values and asks: Are all winners from Debrecen the right champions...?
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To the first time the host of world championships 1922 and 1970, the Slovenian capital Ljubljana, is also host of European Champs of artistic gymnastics.
Athletes - elite and juniors - from 38 nations will fight for the medals from April 14 to 18 in the country of the Slovenian Olympic Gymnastics Hero Leon Stukelj,
3-times Olympic and 5-times world champion of history
Ljubljana and its legend Miroslav Cerar, the World Champion from 1970...
DeThe Austrian Gymnastics Federation OEFT jubilates: To the first time the Aistrians are among the best 8 European nations at the 2nd European Team Champs', which will be held in May 3 -4 in Moscow. The reason is the retirement of France, Netherlands, Czech Republic and Latvia. So host Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Italy, Bulgaria, Great Britain and Hungary are the qualified nations.
The last host of the 1st European Champs 2001 in Riesa Germany (7th place) is no more...