8. Dezember 2008
Lausanne, Switzerland
Artistic Gymnastics
Focus on gymnast safety

* f i g --: The FIG Apparatus Commission gathered on November 29-30 at the FIG Head Office for its second meeting in 2008.

President of the Commission Nicolae Vieru (ROU) and his colleagues Jvan Weber (SUI) and Ludwig Schweizer (GER, photo left) met with apparatus manufacturer representatives Hiro Hirabayashi (Senoh) and Jay Ashmore (AAI) to focuse their attention on gymnast safety, a topic on last weekend’s agenda.
Schweizer, who conducted a study at the Olympic...

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8. Dezember 2008
Lausanne, Switzerland
Artistic Gymnastics
FIG Preview: 14th Women s World Cup Final 2008

* fig --: There’s no doubt about it, the Women’s Floor Final is a two-part act. The first is a battle between the Olympic finalists of Beijing, a way to set the record straight for outgoing Olympic champion Sandra Izbasa (ROU) and her Chinese pursuers Jiang Yuyan, 4th in Beijing, and Cheng Fei, 7th.

Revenge is in the air at Madrid’s Telefonica Arena, which is completely sold out for the event. The second part brings together gymnasts...

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4. Dezember 2008
Madrid / Spain
Artistic Gymnastics
Exciting competition at the 14th World Cup Final!

Nearly all qualifiers for the 14th Artistic Gymnastics World Cup Final from 13th to 14th dezember in Madrid (ESP) have been identified. A few names remain unknown on the women’s start list, however, but confirmation is expected over the next few days.

Favourit: Jordan Jovtchev (BUL)
>> Two Men’s finals stand out in this event: the Rings and the Horizontal Bar. - Victory is in the bag for Jordan Jovtchev, a Bulgarian legend who will...

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2. Dezember 2008
Los Angeles / USA
Artistic Gymnastics
Nastia Liukin appears on Gossip Girl

Olympic gymnastics all-around gold medalist 2008 in Beijing (China) NASTIA LIUKIN makes her short but sweet appearance tonight on the popular-among-young-women television series "Gossip Girl". In Season 2 - "It´s a Wunderful Lie". The show is at 8 p.m. on the CW network.

Nastia Liukin (USA) appears briefly at the Snowflake Ball, the annual winter dance held at the private New York academy where much of the show's drama takes place.

She...

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30. November 2008
Linz / Austria
Artistic Gymnastics
Japanese dominated international Future Cup

At the 5th international "Austrian Future Cup" in Linz (Austria) with 86 gymnasts from 14 nations Japanese won three of altogether four competitions.
Winner on "U 18"-competition was YUYA KAMATO with 83,15 points followed by GILLES GENTGES (Belgium, 80.650) and MATHEW HENNESSEY (Great Britain, 78.650).
The 14 years old KAMATO shake off the nearly four years older rivals...

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