20. Juni 2004
Madrid / ESP
Artistic Gymnastics
Dual meet Spain - Romania

The women's team of Romania (151,075 : 148,900) and the men's team of Spain (224,550 : 223,100) won the dual meet between Spain and Romania on Saturday in Madrid. Monica Rosu (ROM / 37,650) and Rafeal Martínez (ESP / 56,925) were the best of individual all around competitions.
For the first time after his absence due to a drug ban Gervasio Deferr (ESP), Olympic Champion on vault, took part in an international competition (on floor and vault only)....

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17. Juni 2004
Moutier / Switzerland
Artistic Gymnastics
FIGHT AGAINST DOPING: WADA tests!

- fig - : --The World Antidoping Agency (WADA) carried out numerous out-of competition tests within the international gymnastics community in 2003. They covered all FIG disciplines and were done on all continents. Within the 121 controls carried out, only one came up positive to diuretic....

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17. Juni 2004
Moutier/Switzerland
Artistic Gymnastics
IOC Athletes Commission: Two gymnasts on the list!

fig: -- On August 26, 2004, The International Olympic Committee will release the list of the new elected Members of its Athletes Commission. The election will take place in the Olympic Village in Athens from August 11 to 25. Among the candidates recognized and approved by the IOC Executive Commission, Gymnastics is represented by Szilveszter Csollany (HUN) and Marius Urzica (ROM). The FIG extends its best wishes at the occasion of this election and hopes that Gymnastics will be represented...

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16. Juni 2004
Moscow / Russia
Artistic Gymnastics
Russia nominated Russian Olympic Team

Press conference in Moscow...
The President of the Russian Gymnastics Federation and also chief coach Leonid Arkaev announced the Russian final training squads for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens at a press conference in Moscow, yesterday.
So eight female and nine male gymnasts will start the immediately preparation for the Olympics, four days after the end of the national championships yesterday.....

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15. Juni 2004
Moscow / Russia
Artistic Gymnastics
Russian National Cup and Event Finals 2004

Svetlana Khorkina and Alexei Bondarenko won the all-around at the Russian Cup Finals, held Sunday in the Russian capital Moscow.
Bondarenko (56,500) was also the Russian National all-around champion this past spring. On second place came Nikolai Krukow, in front of Anton Golodsutskov
Khorkina showed a marked improvement Sunday (38.625), after making some mistakes the day before in the qualifiying round.
Monday and Tuesday take place the Russian Championships with the event finals...

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