* us-gymnastics --: Two-time World medalist Sam MIKULAK of Newport Coast, Calif./U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Training Center, thrilled the crowd with high-flying skills and routines on his way to his sixth U.S. men’s all-around title at the 2019 U.S. Gymnastics Championships at Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo. Mikulak ties Makoto Sakamoto, who earned his sixth all-around title in 1970. With 86.750 in the 1st freestyle exercise and 87.400 points in the second, he left Yul...
"EYOF" - The European Youth Olympic Festival is held under the patronage of the IOC, and is the pride of the European Olympic Committees with 25 years of tradition. EYOF is the biggest and first top European multi-sport event aimed at young athletes aged 14 to 18. There is a winter and a summer edition, which take place in two-year cycles, in odd-numbered years.
Some 2,700 athletes representing 48 European countries competed in ten sports at Baku...
The historical trip of the American descendants of the German father of gymnastics Friedrich Ludwig Jahn went for a week across Germany and found an extremely attentive, public and media interest:
<< Ernest John Rohr sen. and his 18-year-old son Ernie John Jr. as the great-, great-, great-, great, great-, great-, grandson of the "old man in a beard" stood deeply moved at the feet of their larger-than-life ancestor in the Jahn city of Freyburg on the Unstrut....
<< Seventeen years after this photo (2002), when Little "Ernie John" once smiled at his famous great-great-great grandfather, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn,now an almost 20-year-old descendant of the German "Father of Gymnastics" now follows his footsteps on a tour of Germany.
With his Rohr Family from Chicago / Illinois - the American line of the Jahn family tree - the tour starts at upcoming weekend in Potsdam, in the Jahn Sports Gymnasium, where Olympic champion and photographer Peter...