This weekend Birmingham will be jointly hosting the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup in December 2004 in partnership with British Gymnastics. The event will be staged at the National Indoor Arena (NIA) in the city centre from 11 –12 December. Birmingham was selected as the host city by the Federation Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG)....
The Organising Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad – Beijing 2008 (BOCOG) has announced that it is looking for theme songs for the Beijing Games. The competition is open to entries from institutions, professionals and amateurs from China and abroad.
People’s Olympic Games
The competition is part of BOCOG’s campaign to promote the concept of the “People’s Olympic Games”, and it is for this reason that anyone can enter.
Led by Hiroyuki Tomita, the Japanese men swept the first five places at the 2004 Chunichi Cup, held on Saturday in Nagoya, Japan.
2004 Junior European champion Steliana Nistor (Romania) won the women's all-around title.
The Chunichi Cup concluded on Sunday with the event finals. The Russian women rebounded from Saturday's poor all-around showing while Japan continued to dominate the men's competition.....
About 6,000 visitors came on Saturday to the special 'Ronny Ziesmer Benefit Gala' to the Berlin's Max Schmeling Hall.
All together 100,000 EURO was the financial result of a big show program, in favour of the gymnast Ronny Ziesmer, who is paralyzed after a vaulting crash at July 12 in preparation for the Olympic Games.
A lot of German top stars, like the swimmer Franziska van Almsick, the cyclist Jens Fiedler came to this shof of the German...
The International DTB-Cup in Stuttgart has ended. On the 2nd finales' day the men presented their finales on floor, parallel bars and high bar and the women competed on beam and vault.
The fist victory of the day went to Mitja Petkovsek from Slovenia who won the parallel bars final which overall took place on a very high level of performance. Alexandra Eremia secured herself the victory in the beam finale with a very difficult routine. The tension in...