After seven tests among the 21 national team athletes, the Chinese Gymnastics Association (CGA) finally selected seven men and seven women to take part in the high-profile international event, the World Champs in Anaheim.
On August 2, the team began training at South Coast Gymnastics.
Led by four Olympic champions - Li Xiaopeng, Yang Wei, Huang Xu and Xing Aowei - the Chinese men's side boasts the strongest line-up in the men's team competition. Besides, young guns and Asian...
Under the protection of the International Olympic Committee take place the '7th European Youth Olympic Festival 2003' in the French capital Paris.
The best European talents of 10 kind of sports come together this week.
The Ukrain girls won the team competition, followed by Netherlands, Russia and Romania. Yulia Lozhechko (RUS/26,025) won the all around competition and Giorgia Benecchi (ITA) was the double winner on final day...
This week the Uzbekistan Federation released Oksana Chusovitina to compete for the Germans for humanitarian reasons.
However, since Oksana has not lived in Germany for 3 years, she does not yet have permission of the German government to compete for the German team.
Just now Oksana Chusovitina is in a special tarining camp together with the German team on the campus of the University of Utah...
The wellknown Company and Agency DRAGONE from Belgium, which created the opening ceremony for the European Soccer championship 2000 in the Heysel stadium of Brussels and which is a worldwide working company for different shows and events, is looking for talents for interesting projects, where sports meet the magic of theatre....
Swiss gymnastics arrived allready in Los Angeles, though they are not talking about the Swiss national team, leaving on august 8th for the world championship. The gymnasts they refer to are the best ones from the Swiss club BTV Lucerne, lead by Bruno Nietlispach, choach of the Olympic champion Li Donghua.
Anaheim will be the start of a tour trough California, during which they will meet the best Californien teams, the top fight gym and the Stanford gyms...