10. September 2010
Berlin, Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
GERMAN NATIONAL 2010... a special Test before the 2011 Europeans in Berlin

Anniversary and last national Worlds Trials
This weekend will held the 70th Women's and the 77th Men's German Championships of Artistic Gymnastics. The venue is the Max-Schmeling-Hall, also the location of the 2011 33rd European Championships in April .

To the first time in German gymnastics history the host will use a podium, so this national event will also be a special logistic test before the highlight next year.
Thes Nationals are also the llast test and trials...

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8. September 2010
Vladimir, Russia
Artistic Gymnastics
Nikolai the Great is fighting for his Life!

* International Gymnast Magazine reported  that former Soviet champion Nikolai Andrianov has been suffering from multiple system atrophy (MSA), a disease likely to eventually take his life. MSA is a neurological disorder that affects motor skills and muscle coordination and progresses until it kills the patient.
Andrianov, 58, seems to be in the later stages; IG reports that he is bedridden in his hometown of Vladimir, Russia and his family is searching for...

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3. September 2010
Lilleshall, Great Britain
Artistic Gymnastics
British Worlds Team Rotterdam 2010 announced ...

The British Gymnastics Federation announced it's men's and women's team for the 42nd WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS of ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS, which will held from 16 - 24 October in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Heading the Teams will be World Floor Champion and European Floor and Uneven Bars Champion Beth Tweddle.
Alongside Beijing Olympic Pommel Horse Bronze medallist and European Pommel Silver medallist Louis Smith.

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29. August 2010
Chelyabinsk, Russia
Artistic Gymnastics
2010 Artistic Gymnastics Russian Cup

After winning the all-around competition of the 2010 Russian Cup in Chelyabinsk Sergei KHOROKHORDIN of Barnaul (89,550) won also two more titles at the parallel bars and the high bar  final event, which concluded on Sunday, August 30.
Second placed Igor PAKHOMENKO (Leninsk-Kuznezk) ranked second on high bar and was followed by bronze medallist Maxim DEVIATOVSKI won the silver medal on parallel bars.
On women's side Alia MUSTAFINA from Moscow was the all-around winner with a...

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25. August 2010
Lausanne, Switzerland
Artistic Gymnastics
Fatal negligence: MARIAN DRAGULESCU WARNED!

*fig --: The F.I.G. office published today, that a severe warning has been issued to Romanian gymnast Marian Dragulescu for failing to comply with the procedures governing the fight against doping.
Three indictments were filed against the gymnast, namely concerning violation of a rule stipulating that a gymnast must announce his return to competition after a retirement, a communication made regarding Marian Dragulescu by his national federation on December 30, 2008. Because of his failure to comply with this rule, Dragulescu...

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