13. Juni 2008
Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
Artistic Gymnastics
GYMmedia Exclusive: Daniel Keatings is dreaming from Beijing already ...New: KEATINGS selected for Beijing!

The former gymnast of the German gymnastics premier league "1st Bundesliga" and member of the top club "SV Halle", Nico TANDEL,  just now and temporarily resides nearby Cambridge and is working as a coach of the wellknown Britisch Gymnastics Club Huntingdon", where four of the British team members of the 2007 Worlds in Stuttgart are coming from - Louis Smith, Daniel Keatings, Luke Folwell and Marissa King all made the GB team and have made Huntingdon Gymnastics Club...

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9. Juni 2008
Boston, USA
Artistic Gymnastics
Shawn Johnson defended National All-around Title

The 2007 All-around world champion Shawn Johnson (West Des Moines, Iowa/Chow’s Gymnastics) successfully defended her U.S. all-around and floor exercise titles at the 2008 USA National Visa Championships at Agganis Arena at Boston University.
Nineteen women qualified to compete at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Gymnastics, scheduled for June 19-22 in Philadelphia. 
13 gymnasts were named to the 2008-09 U.S. Senior National Team and will compete at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials –...

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8. Juni 2008
Vilanova, Spanien
Artistic Gymnastics
6th World Cup of the Olympic Season: Chineses are winning everywhere...

At the traditional  33 anniversary of the "Memorial Joaquim Blume 2008" in Vilanova ila Geltrù , Spain the Chinese gymnasts won four of the six men's finals:
ZHENG, Hongtao dominated on pommel horse in front of  the European Champion Berki (HUN), YAN, Mingyong on rings, followed by Plushkin (RUS), FENG, Zhe on parallel bars beat Piasecki (SVK); European champion Petkovsek came on fifth place, only) and GUO, Weiyang won against the European high bar specialists Pegan (SLO)...

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31. Mai 2008
Kiev / Ukraine
Artistic Gymnastics
Boris SHAKHLIN - the Ukrainian, legendary M A N of I R O N , passed away ....

Boris, the big "Iron Man" died ...!...!
With a big sadness the international gymnastics family mourns the dead of one of it's biggest representative...:
Yesterday, May 30, in his hometown Kiev , Ukraine,
<< Boris Anfiyanovich S H A K H L I N died at the age of 76 years!
He was one of the most prominent figure of the former Soviet, later Ukrainian and also world sports scene and one of the most successfully...

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31. Mai 2008
Moscow / Russia
Artistic Gymnastics
World Cup 2008 World Stars in Russia

At the Thursday's qualification rounds of the "2008 World Stars" competition (- world cup no. 5 of the Olympic season) the Swiss athletes are happy about five final places...
So Patrick DOMINGUEZ startedat the Friday's floor and vault finals in the sport complex "Olympisky" of the Russian metrople...
* ... sorry, but we are just waiting for the Friday's final results from the Russian organizers...

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