4. September 2008
Hanoi, Vietnam
Artistic Gymnastics
once again: Diuretic Furosemide in Gymnastics!

The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games will also be remembered for a number of doping scandals, one of which involved Vietnamese gymnast Do Thi Ngan Thuong, who tested positive for a banned substance after finishing last in the women’s floor exercises.

Also the Hanoi press affirmed, that the 19-year-old, who was the only female representative in artistic gymnastics from Southeast Asia, was found to have taken diuretic furosemide – a readily available drug that can be...

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2. September 2008
Buenos Aires / Argentina
Artistic Gymnastics
German teaching assistance still desired abroad

A little bit under the shade of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing took place a course for artistic gymnastics coaches in Buenos Aires (Argentina).
Almost 50 Coaches participated at this course.
Course leader was Member of the Technical Committee and Chairman of the Board of Coach Education of the German Gymnastics Federation, Dr. Flavio Bessi who was invited by the local federation to his former birth city in order to do a course.

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26. August 2008
Croatia
Artistic Gymnastics
Croatian medalists receive warm welcome in home towns

Croatia's two Olympic medalists received warm welcome on their respective home towns soon after their return from Beijing.
Nearly 3,000 people gathered in the central square of the northern Croatian town of Cakovec to welcome the best Croatian gymnast, Filip Ude, who won a silver medal in the men's pommel horse in the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, the Croatian state news agency HINA reported.
Addressing the people who gathered to welcome him...

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26. August 2008
Poland
Artistic Gymnastics
Leszek Blanik won the first Olympic gold in gymnastics for Poland

2007 World champion (vault) Leszek Blanik became Olympic champion in the vault and won the third gold medal for Poland at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. 
He is the first athlete not from China to win a gold medal in men's gymnastics at the Olympics in Beijing.
Blanik’s is the first gold Poland has ever one in Olympic gymnastics. He dedicated his victory to his son, kissed the boy's picture and showed it to the...

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25. August 2008
Beijing / China
Artistic Gymnastics
* ... see You in BEIJING 2008: GYMmedia OLYMPIC Website 2008

The European Gymnastics Service "GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL" is providing reports from the "Games of the XXIX Olympiad 2008" in Beijing, concentrating particularly on news about the three gymnastics disciplines ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS, TRAMPOLINE and RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS.
* This service is being supported by the leading manufacturers of gymnastics equipment in these disciplines,
- Janssen-Fritsen (NED) - artistic gymnastics;
- Eurotramp (GER) - trampoline;
- SPIETH Gymnastik (GER) - rhythmic gymnastics.
* ... Games of...

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