Friday evening at 7 p.m. local time the 37.th and biggest World Championships of artistic gymnastics in history were opened with an opening ceremony in Anaheim, Cal./USA.
Gymnasts with their national flags from 80 countries - so much like never before in 100th years old history of this event - marched into the arena. The first worlds took place 1903 in Antwerp/Belgium.
To the second time after Ghent 2001, the Dutch Pegases Company 'JANSSEN&FRITSEN' take over the title sponsorship of a world championships and presents 'ANAHEIM 2003', publishes by GYMmedia.
The artistic gymnastics highlight of the year will be open today evening with an OPENING CEREMONY (7 p.m. local time) in Anaheim.
Also the podium training of women
is finished now...
The artistic gymnastics highlight of the year gets near: Today at 8.00 a.m. local tim starts the podium training of women for a distance of more than 14 hours.
The team of Canada will be the very first starting together with Belarus and France..., followed by Netherlands, Slovakia, Germany and host USA. Yesterday the men's teams finished their podium training...
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn was born 1778, August , 11th in the little village Lanz, near Lenzen as a son of the pastor.
A big part of his life Jahn lived in the 'Town of Jahn Freyburg'Unstrut' in Saxonia-Anhalt. In October (3 - 5) this year there will held a historical and scientific symposium.
Every year, at the last weekend in August in Freyburg take place the Jahn tournament, a artistic gymnastics competition for all age groups, from 15...
One week before the opening of the World Champs of artistic gymnastics the Austrian gymnastics teams arrived just now in Anaheim, coming from its training camp in West-Woodword/Ca.
And just now the election campaign is beginning in California! So the 'Terminator-Governator' Arnold Schwarzenegger today pronounced, that he will make a visit to the Austrian gymnastics team...!
So it was to read on the ÖFT website. Is it a skilful publicity gag or will it be reality....?