The traditional Japanese 45th NHK Cup 2006 was held at the Event Hall at Makuhari Messe, in Chiba, about 40 minutes from Tokyo Station.
The total score of both the secondary trials and the NHK Cup will decide the World Championships team (Aarhus) and the Asian Games team (Doha).
The reigning world champion, Hiroyuki Tomita, won the NHK Cup with a very big margin.
Even with new routines for the new code, Manami Ishizaka...
Chinese gymnasts won eight gold medals, two silver and two bronze at the World Cup event in Shanghai over this weekend:
Winner on floor was the world champion from Brazil Diego Hypolito.
Best on pommel horse was the Chinese Quin, Xiao and his compatriot Chen Yibing won on rings.
On second day the Chinese men won vault by Du, Wei and also parallel bars by Feng, Zhe. Young Russians came on the first two places on high...
In these days the 'African Union of Gymnastics' started with it's own new website.
It is a historical days for the 'UAG' and its President Mr. Mohamed Yamani said: 'It's a small step in the information world, but a great step to the African Gymnastic Union!'
Step by step the new internet address www.uagym.org will store a huge amount of documents, rules, calendars, pictures, event reports, which will be posted and available for the Union Members...
The 2006 British Championships for Women held in the Guildford Spectrum over the weekend 7/9th July 2006 will be long remembered with two memorable events:
• The 21-year-old “Prima” of British Gymnastics, Beth Tweddle from Liverpool convincingly won her sixth British overall title in a row (Overall score- 60.750), thus leaving only one last record in the sport’s history still unbeaten by herself, i.e. Pat Hurst’s eight British titles, between 1947 and 1956!
In addition to this, Beth...
The Rumanian television 'TVR 1' commemorated three decades since Nadia Comaneci won three Olympic titles and the first perfect score, 10, in the history of gymnastics, at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games. Colleagues of Comaneci - as well as officials of the gymnastics federation reminisced and talked with the former gymnast on the phone, as the athlete is taking care of her newborn child Dylan Paul in the U.S. ...