* E O C --: The European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia will now take place from 24 to 30 July 2022 after being brought forward from next summer to avoid a clash with the rescheduled Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.
The joint decision by the European Olympic Committees (EOC) and the Organising Committee for the 16th Summer EYOF follows the postponement of Tokyo 2020 to 23 July to 8 August 2021 as a...
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?? Kuriose Sportwelt Deutschland!!
Soeben setzte der Deutsche Turner-Bund (DTB) - allen sachlichen Widerständen zum Trotz - die Entlassung seiner Chemnitzer Meistermacherin Gabriele FREHSE durch,
doch alle Chemnitzer Turnerinnen wollen nur von ihr trainiert werden...??!!
Um sich trotzdem mit ihr und ihrer Kompetenz den "Traum von Olympia" zu realisieren, bitten die Olympiakader des TuS Chemnitz-Altendorf in einem Spendenaufruf um Hilfe, um ihre Wunschtrainerin auch finanzieren zu...
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...
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...
"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...