For over a decade, the first German Olympic gymnastics champion in reunited Germany, Andreas WECKER - who is celebrating his 50^th birthday today - has been in a completely different life. At his third Olympic Games in 1996, he won Olympic gold in Atlanta after he had caused a sensation at the top of the world for almost a decade:
At the age of 18, he won Olympic team silver with the last GDR team 1988 in Seoul and...

With the opening of Tokyo’s New National Stadium in December, the final stage of the countdown to the beginning of the XXXII Olympic Games on 24 July 2020 has started. Never has a city looked “as well prepared for the Games as Tokyo at this point in time”, said IOC President Thomas Bach after the last meeting of the IOC Executive Committee. Some photos in the current edition of this journal offer a little taste of this event. They are...