Gold-medal Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman and dozens of other women who spoke out about sexual abuse by Larry Nassar received the "Arthur Ashe Courage Award" at this year’s ESPYS. Over 140 survivors, including US Olympic gymnasts, took the stage to accept the 2018 "Arthur Ashe Courage Award" at the ESPYs this week (- short for "Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Award"). The 26th annual ESPY Awards took place in Los Angeles. The ESPYs, which stands for Excellence...
On Saturday evening (July 14) the Italian national juniors team hosted a Friendly International Meet with 4 strong European equipes, in whose also ranks are mainly aspirants for the forthcoming Junior European Championships in Augus. - last test so to speak, which should run these countries last arguments for the nominations of their JECh teams: Germany, France, Great Britain, and Switzerland were the host nations. In the north-eastern Italian city Pieve de Soligo of Pieve the host dominated -...
The "japantimes" reported, that Olympic Champion Kohei Uchimura failed to qualify for the horizontal bar finals at the Japan National Gymnastics Apparatus Championships on Saturday. The two-time reigning Olympic all-around men’s champion entered the competition aiming to execute the Bretschneider, in the final round, but slipped and fell from the bar before he could execute his dismount. He had a similar plan at a World Cup apparatus event in March, when he also failed to reach the horizontal bar final....
Today, Saturday June 23, 50 boys from 27 countries and 44 girls representing 25 European federation battled for their entry ticket to the 3rd Summer Youth Olympic Games which will be held in October in Buenos Aires (ARG). To be eligible to participate in theseYouth Olympic Games, the male gymnasts must be born between 1 January 2001 and 31 December 2002. The girls have to be born between 1 January 2003 and 31 December 2003.
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Hamm, Liukin, Nemov, Raducan To Be Inducted In 2018
The International Gymnastics Hall of Fame (IGHOF) included 98 individuals from 22 nations on May 19, 2018, in Oklahoma City:
Paul Hamm and fellow American Nastia Liukin will be inducted this year along with Romanian Andreea Raducan. Alexei Nemov entered the Hall of Fame last year, but could not travel at the last minute. He came this year, however ...
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