The German Women's Gymnastics Team for the Olympic Games, who are leaving on Friday 25 July 2008 in order to acclimatise at a training camp in Kamo-City (Japan), have now completed their "direct preparation" for competition in the Olympics at the German National Training Centre at Bergisch Gladbach.
Before the gymnasts were allowed to return to their clubs for a few days of home training, the Technical Rubber Products section of the company LANXESS AG in Leverkusen took advantage of the proximity of...

The Romanian artistic gymnastics women's team, without its stars Izbasa and Nistor, won the triple meet in Schwaebisch Gmuend, near Stuttgart  (Germany) with a score of 231,250 points, in front of host Germany (230,150) and France (25,80).
German gymnasts surprised with a top score on uneven bars (61,650), based on a world class competitions of Marie-Sophie Hindermann (Start value 17.4; final: 16.000) and Anja Brinker (15.950), but lost the leading position after the Rumanian balance beam subdivision (60.150)...