The international gymnastics community has lost one of its most respected members and an exceptional person.

Karl-Heinz ZSCHOCKE, the former head coach of the GDR artitic gymnastics men's team and long-standing president of the Technical Committee for Men's Gymnastics of the International Gymnastics Federation (F.I.G.), who in the last few years was its honorary vice president, died after a short, serious illness in a Berlin hospital on Saturday evening....

.... the new faces of Russian politics
Vladimir Putin has succeeded in 'sexing-up' the image of his United Russia party as a result of last month's Russian parliamentary elections.
So the principal ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater Svetlana Zakharova and no fewer than four former athletes turned topless models to become deputies in the Duma, now:
Svetlana Khorkina, 28, Olympic champion  and numerous world champion of artistic gymnastics and also Alina Kabaeva, 24, Olympic...