13. August 2003
Anaheim/USA
Artistic Gymnastics
PREVIEW: 37. World Championships

The artistic gymnastics highlight of the year gets near: Today at 8.00 a.m. local tim starts the podium training of women for a distance of more than 14 hours.
The team of Canada will be the very first starting together with Belarus and France..., followed by Netherlands, Slovakia, Germany and host USA. Yesterday the men's teams finished their podium training...

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11. August 2003
Lanz/Freyburg / Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
225th Birthday of FRIEDRICH LUDWIG JAHN

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn was born 1778, August , 11th in the little village Lanz, near Lenzen as a son of the pastor.
A big part of his life Jahn lived in the 'Town of Jahn Freyburg'Unstrut' in Saxonia-Anhalt. In October (3 - 5) this year there will held a historical and scientific symposium.
Every year, at the last weekend in August in Freyburg take place the Jahn tournament, a artistic gymnastics competition for all age groups, from 15...

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9. August 2003
Anaheim/USA
Artistic Gymnastics
Is Arnie coming to the Team Austria...?

One week before the opening of the World Champs of artistic gymnastics the Austrian gymnastics teams arrived just now in Anaheim, coming from its training camp in West-Woodword/Ca.
And just now the election campaign is beginning in California! So the 'Terminator-Governator' Arnold Schwarzenegger today pronounced, that he will make a visit to the Austrian gymnastics team...!
So it was to read on the ÖFT website. Is it a skilful publicity gag or will it be reality....?

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8. August 2003
Fremont / USA
Artistic Gymnastics
BTV Luzern wins in Fremont

The young team of the Swiss BTV Luzern, the club of the Olympic champion on Pommelhorse (Atlanta, 1996) Donghua, Li - won a friendly meet in the Fremont-Top Flight Gym Arena against the Northen Californian All Star Gymnastics Team. The hosts lead before the high bar with 0,8 points, but the young Swiss gymnasts made a strong last rotation and were the winner at the end with a difference of 1,2 points.
The Swiss team is on the way...

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7. August 2003
Kienbaum/Deutschland
Artistic Gymnastics
German Men s Team ready for Anaheim

Two days before flying to Anaheim the German men's team of artistic gymnastics made its last test competition in the German training camp Kienbaum near Berlin.
Best of all-round was the German Vice Champion Christian Berczes and so the gymnast from SV Halle came as the number 6 into the WCh team.
Robert Juckel from Cottbus is the emergency men No. 1 and Dmitri Nonin (Berlin) is the the No.8...

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