Women at the Olympic Games?
"Impractical, uninteresting, clumsy and, I have no hesitation in adding, inappropriate" was the opinion of Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games. The role of women at the Games, the French baron wrote in 1912, was primarily to "crown the winners".
Nine years later, in 2021, Monte Carlo hosted its first "Women's Olympic Games" and women's sport in Monaco established itself independently from 1924.
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With the support of its new sponsor Cosmopolitan Aesthetics, the 10th International ZAG Junior Cup will be held in Hanover on June 01/02.
The German Premier League club TuS Vinnhorst, in cooperation with the Lower Saxony Gymnastics Federation (NTB), will be hosting the now well-established international competition for young gymnasts aged 10 to 16 for the tenth time this year. For the third time, it will take place in the...
Meet the men's team announced for the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2024 taking place in Rimini, Italy.
Leading the men’s senior team is Max Whitlock, who’s specialist skill on Pommel Horse and Parallel Bars will help establish the men’s team among the top in Europe. * * The British elite team will also continue to compete:
The national All-around champion Joe FRASER, World Vault Champion and British Floor, High Bar and Vault Champion, Jake JARMAN, British all-around bronze...
Germany's Minister President of Saxony-Anhalt, His Excellency Dr. Reiner HASELOFF, was visibly impressed when he presented Johanna QUAAS' excitingly diverse and impressive 98-year life in Magdeburg's "Palais am Fuerstenwall" in the State Chancellery ballroom. At the presentation of the "Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon" on behalf of Germany's Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, he described in his laudatory speech the path of a lively little gymnastics girl in her father's garden, through the sports student in difficult post-war...
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