10. September 2005
Birmingham / Great Britain
Artistic Gymnastics
21st Congress of UEG: Dimitropoulos re-elected!

40 federations with 105 delegates have participated in the first day's debates of the 21st UEG General Assembly, which is held in the International Convention Centre of Birmingham. The whole day was fully dedicated to statutory matters, as the elections and honorary distinctions are scheduled on Saturday. The reports, accounts, budgets 2005 and 2006 as well as all the UEG proposals were approved almost unanimously by the delegates....

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31. August 2005
Bucharest / Romania
Artistic Gymnastics
Romanian National Olympic Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Team dissolved

Romanian Olympians May Miss Worlds
A weekend escapade by several members of the senior women's team has put Romania's world medal chances in jeopardy in 2005, Romanian newspaper 'Gazeta Sporturilor' reported yesterday.
After weeks and even months of disputes between gymnasts, club coaches and national team coaches Octavian Belu and Mariana Bitang, on Monday the Romanian National Olympic Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Seniors Team has been dissolved.
Both coaches furthermore requested a cancellation of their contracts with the...

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31. August 2005
Prague / Czech Republic
Artistic Gymnastics
Czech gymnast Jana KOMRSKOVÁ - Comeback to gymnastics

Athletics tryout over!
A few weeks before the start of the World Championships 2005 in Melbourne, Australia, multiple Czech National Champion and two-time Olympian in 2000 and 2004, Jana KOMRSKOVA returned to working on gymnastics apparatuses.
Shortly after Athens 2004, Jana moved from her hometown Zlin to Brno (Brünn), where she attends classes at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Science at Masaryk-University. Soon, in October 2004, she changed for the DUKLA Army Sports Centre Prague where...

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30. August 2005
Hamburg
Artistic Gymnastics
PREVIEW:4. Alsterpokal 2005 - Festival of Womens Artistic Gymnastics

'Hamburg turnt an'!
On the weekend 23./24. of September, a veritable “Festival of Womens Artistic Gymnastics” is scheduled to take place in the Wandsbeker gymnastics hall in Hamburg (GER)
Talented new generation gymnasts as well as top gymnasts from all over the world, aged 8-28, get together for the 4th time at the (in the meantime almost traditional) 'ALSTERPOKAL'
Therefore, gymnasts from Egypt, China and Russia are going to make their debut at the Alsterpokal...

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30. August 2005
Canada
Artistic Gymnastics
Former Romanian Olympian Vanda Hadarean in action again

Former Romanian Olympian Vanda Hadarean represents Canada at the upcoming World Fitness Championships.

Romanian-born Vanda Hadarean (now aged 29) - a promising artistic gymnastics junior gymnast in the early nineties as well as a solid Romanian team member of the 1991 World Championships, winning the bronze medal in the Hoosher Dome of Indianapolis and Olympic silver medallist (team) in Barcelona (1992)
- is now going to represent Canada at the upcoming World Fitness Championships, starting September...

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