fig: -- On August 26, 2004, The International Olympic Committee will release the list of the new elected Members of its Athletes Commission. The election will take place in the Olympic Village in Athens from August 11 to 25. Among the candidates recognized and approved by the IOC Executive Commission, Gymnastics is represented by Szilveszter Csollany (HUN) and Marius Urzica (ROM). The FIG extends its best wishes at the occasion of this election and hopes that Gymnastics will be represented...
Press conference in Moscow...
The President of the Russian Gymnastics Federation and also chief coach Leonid Arkaev announced the Russian final training squads for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens at a press conference in Moscow, yesterday.
So eight female and nine male gymnasts will start the immediately preparation for the Olympics, four days after the end of the national championships yesterday.....
Svetlana Khorkina and Alexei Bondarenko won the all-around at the Russian Cup Finals, held Sunday in the Russian capital Moscow.
Bondarenko (56,500) was also the Russian National all-around champion this past spring. On second place came Nikolai Krukow, in front of Anton Golodsutskov
Khorkina showed a marked improvement Sunday (38.625), after making some mistakes the day before in the qualifiying round.
Monday and Tuesday take place the Russian Championships with the event finals...
The British Olympic Association (BOA) announced officially yesterday the Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Team selected to compete at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens....
The Belgian 'Gymnastiek Federatie Vlaanderen' pronounced, that a World Cup event of category A will be held in Ghent from November 5 to 7, in the city of the 2001 World Championships.
After La Serrena (Chile) in September it will be the second world cup after the Olympic Games, followed by the DTB Cup (Stuttgart, Germany) and the world cup final in Birmingham (GBR).