* f i g - news --: A champion retires
Great Britain's Elizabeth Tweddle officially announced her retirement from competitive gymnastics bringing to an end one of the greatest careers in the history of our sport.
On the anniversary of her Olympic uneven bars bronze medal, Beth retires with an outstanding catalogue of achievements spanning three Olympic Games and including three World and six European Championship titles.
The first British woman...
What Oprah Winfrey is in the U.S. or Raffaela Carrá are in Italy or Spain, this is in the Monday's, evening prime time in Argentina, the talk show "SG" on the TV channel "Telefe".
<< The abbreviation stands ("SG") for Susana Gimenéz as hostess (- pictured, right) who last night live in Buenos Aires as a TV-Studio guest received Johanna QUAAS from Germany - the "oldest active Gymnast of the World" - confirmed last...
The Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) hired the Russian Alexander Alexandrov, one of the best artistic gymnastics coaches in the world, to lead the Brazilian team of that sports until the Olympic Games Rio 2016. The new head coach of the national team was introduced on Friday, July 12th, at the headquarters of COB, in Rio de Janeiro.
Next week, the coach will be in Três Rios (State of Rio de Janeiro), where he will meet for the...
Great Britain boy's team have taken the team GOLD on the opening day of competition at the 2013 European Youth Olympic Festival in Utrecht.
The team of Nile Wilson, Brinn Bevan and Jay Thompson combined to score 169.550 to put them clear in the top of the podium ahead of Russia with 167.300 and Italy in bronze scoring 161.300.
Brinn Bevan was the top of the all-around rankings with a superb performance to score...
In the German city of Esslingen, near Stuttgart - city of the co. SPIETH Gymnastics - not only high-tech equipment for the gymnastics produced, but there were also "high-tech" demonstrations of the European Gymnastics juniors on these apparatus to admire: Before inspiring scenery, a four countries struggle of female youth gymnasts (ages 14/15 ) between Great Britain, France, Switzerland and host Germany.
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