3. Mai 2020
Indianapolis, USA
Artistic Gymnastics
USA Gymnastics suspends coach Haney for eight years

USA Gymnastics has suspended former US Olympic team coach Maggie HANEY (42) for eight years for verbally and emotionally abusing gymnasts she oversaw, the US Media reported this week. Haney, once one of the country’s most prominent gymnastics coaches, was found by a USA Gymnastics hearing panel to have failed to “to provide a safe, positive and healthy environment with a culture of trust and empowerment.” 
She was also found to have “engaged in severe aggressive behavior toward a minor...

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1. Mai 2020
Frankfurt/M., GER
Artistic Gymnastics
German National coach Andreas Hirsch resigns

The German Gymnastics Federation (DTB) announced today that the 61-year-old male national head coach Andreas HIRSCH, who has held the position of national coach since 2002, is leaving this position and after almost 3 decades with the DTB from May 1, 2020 changes to the service of the Federal Police Sports School Kienbaum, near Berlin.
There he should continue to accompany the training of top gymnasts and prospective federal police officers as a civilian trainer.
The...

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28. April 2020
Amsterdam, NED
Artistic Gymnastics
"HIJ STAAT!" - Holland celebrates its Epke Zonderland and its TV-reporter again

"HIJ STAAT! Ik Sta!
Ik ga helemaal uit mijn dak!"

- ... legendary outcry in Flemish by Holland's TV gymnastics expert Hans van ZETTEN, when the "Flying Dutchman" Epke ZONDERLAND cleared his Olympic high bar exercise in 2012 in London: "HE STANDS! I stand too! I'm going crazy ... .!
- this emotional outcry went through the Netherlands on August 7, 2012 and the whole world celebrated the first Olympic men's gymnastics medal...

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19. April 2020
Freiburg, GER
Artistic Gymnastics
Former German national coach Dieter Hofmann paassed away

Just five weeks after his 79th birthday, Dieter HO F M A N N, the former German gymnastics coach of the GDR men's Olympic silver team from Seoul in 1988, died on the night of April 18 to19, 2020. He was just skiing before in Switzerland when he was torn from the middle of his active life when he was diagnosed with a COVID19 infection in Germany. For over three weeks, the doctors fought for his life in the...

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4. April 2020
Lausanne, SUI
Artistic Gymnastics
FIG: Impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the upcoming events

* f i g ---: The postponement of the Olympic Games to July 2021 gives the FIG a wider window to reorganise the Gymnastics event calendar, especially regarding the remaining qualifying events for Tokyo 2020 that had been deferred or cancelled.  ► FIG - Overview

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