27. Januar 2011
Madrid, Spain
Artistic Gymnastics
New Board Members of Spanish Gymnastics

<< Recently retired Spanish star and Olympic vault champion 2000 and 2004 and Olympic silver medallist on floor in Beijing (2008), Gervasio Deferr, has joined the new board of directors for Spain's gymnastics federation, which is seeking a complete overhaul following a year of scandal.
<< photo: Silver in Beijing, second gold in Athens

Other members of the new board include businessmen, technical and regional representatives and Olympians Alfonso Rodríguez de Sadia (1984, 1988...

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23. Januar 2011
Berlin, Hannover, Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
Olympian Anja Brinker Suffers Achilles Tear

More bad Luck for German Gymnastics

German Olympian Anja Brinker tore her right Achilles' tendon Sunday, ending her planned comeback at April's European championships in Berlin.
Sidelined with a foot injury in 2010, Brinker injured her Achilles while performing at the "Fireworks of Gymnastics" show at Berlin's Max-Schmeling-Halle. The 2011 European Championships take place April 4-10 at the same venue.
Brinker, who turned 20 on Jan. 18, will undergo surgery and be out of competition for at...

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18. Januar 2011
Indianapolis, USA
Artistic Gymnastics
Olympic champ Hamm has injury, needs surgery

Paul Hamm's comeback just got a little tougher. The Olympic all-around champion (Athens 2004) champion gymnast said to the news agency "AP", that he has a torn labrum in his right shoulder and will have surgery this week. He had hoped to return to competition for the first time since 2008 at next month's Winter Cup, a U.S. ranking meet. To the US press he said in a statement through his agent.:
"This is extremely disappointing since I...

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16. Januar 2011
Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
Fabian Hambuechen tears Achilles, out six months

Fabian HAMBUECHEN of Germany tore his left Achilles tendon Saturday in a training accident. The 2010 Worlds high bar bronze medalist will undergo surgery on Monday, Januar 17.

<< Fabian Hambuechen tore his left Achilles tendon Saturday, January 15 in a training accident after a drop to a somersault backward on floor. 
To the German press the 23 years old Olympic bronze medallist (Beijing 2008) said: "I've  just perceived, it was a torn ligament ... but crying is not the way...

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13. Januar 2011
London, Great Britain
Artistic Gymnastics
PRE OLYMPICS, FINAL DAY I and DAY II

Following the Trampoline competitions staged earlier on Friday, January 13 at the North Greenwich Arena, participants of the Men’s and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Apparatus Finals’ second day performed in front of a huge and supportive crowd.  The evening ended with Gold for the British host country again.
The best eight gymnasts per apparatus qualified earlier this week and competed for medals on Men’s Vault, Parallel Bars and Horizontal Bar as well as the Women’s Balance Beam and Floor....

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