Press conference in Moscow...
The President of the Russian Gymnastics Federation and also chief coach Leonid Arkaev announced the Russian final training squads for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens at a press conference in Moscow, yesterday.
So eight female and nine male gymnasts will start the immediately preparation for the Olympics, four days after the end of the national championships yesterday.....
Svetlana Khorkina and Alexei Bondarenko won the all-around at the Russian Cup Finals, held Sunday in the Russian capital Moscow.
Bondarenko (56,500) was also the Russian National all-around champion this past spring. On second place came Nikolai Krukow, in front of Anton Golodsutskov
Khorkina showed a marked improvement Sunday (38.625), after making some mistakes the day before in the qualifiying round.
Monday and Tuesday take place the Russian Championships with the event finals...
The British Olympic Association (BOA) announced officially yesterday the Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Team selected to compete at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens....
The Belgian 'Gymnastiek Federatie Vlaanderen' pronounced, that a World Cup event of category A will be held in Ghent from November 5 to 7, in the city of the 2001 World Championships.
After La Serrena (Chile) in September it will be the second world cup after the Olympic Games, followed by the DTB Cup (Stuttgart, Germany) and the world cup final in Birmingham (GBR).
French Team Nationals took place in Nantes last weekend. This competition awarded the best of French clubs.
The team from Marseille won the title of the first division with worlds vault finalist Coralie Chacon, french team member Magali Carosso, Mélanie Nunes, Marine Latour, Manon Guérin and Na?s Ciravolo (135.775 points). Toulon was second with Junior European floor finalist Julie Martinez and Betty Dupin (130.325).