* f i g - news --: President of the Qatar Gymnastics Federation (QGF), Ali Achmad AL-HITMI, has been re-elected for another four-year term by delegates attending the General Assembly in the Qatari capital of Doha, December 25, 2012. President Al-Hitmi is a former FIG Council Member (2009 – 2012), and as of January 1, 2013 a Member of the FIG Executive Committee, following his election at the recent FIG Congress in Cancun (MEX), October 2012. The election...

Spanish Olympic gymnast Andreu Vivo died of a heart attack in the Catalonian district of Collbaix early Sunday morning (December 30) while he was mountain climbing, the Catalonian Gymnastics Federation confirmed.
Vivo, 34, who competed in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, began to feel ill after climbing the Collbaix peak with a friend and collapsed soon after beginning the descent.
When emergency management personnel arrived at the scene they were unable to revive him, according to...