Brown on the London 2012 bid poster
A gymnast used in the marketing campaign for London's 2012 Olympic bid has been forced to quit the sport because of a lack of funding.
, who was pictured vaulting the 'Gherkin Tower' in the campaign, is now working full-time in a bank.
'It's been on the cards for a while,' he told BBC Radio Five Live. 'I've had to give up the sport because there's a huge...
Men and Women artistic judges from all corners of South Africa attended the women's Brevet & International Judges Courses, was held in Bothas Hill (near Durban) and the men's course was held in Centurion last week.
Now the next F.I.G. women's artistic gymnastics Brevet Course take place in Swakopmund Namibia from the 19th to the 24th February 2006.
Agneta Göthberg from Sweden will be the course instructress.
The organizers of the coming world cup in Germany, the 30th anniversary of 'Turnier der Meister 2006' in Cottbus, registered the entries of US gymnasts Alexander Artemev (Lakewood, Calif.) and Sean Golden (Houston/ Tex.).
Artemev was the pommel horse winner of the 2005 American Cup and placed second in Cottbus last year.
Golden participated at the last worlds in Melbourne ... >> ... read more on www.turnier-der-meister.de
The XVIII. Commenwealth Games 2006' will held from March 15 - 26 in Mebourne, Australia. The gymnastics competitons will take place at the Rod Laver Arena, the venue of the last artistic worlds last year.
The Canadian Men’s Artistic Team, which took home silver in the team event in Manchester, will aim to better its efforts in Melbourne and knock off the strong British team and all other challengers to claim prime position on the medal podium....
The Japanese Gymnastics Federation send away its top star, the current all-around world champion Hiroyuki Tomita to the world Cup event in Cottbus at March 24 - 26. Also announced are the parallel bars Olympic Champion Valeri Gonscharov, the Olympic champion (2000) on floor Igors Vichrovs and the reigning world champions Diego Hypolito (floor) - Brazil's first world champion in history - the Dutch Yuri van Gelder (rings) and the Slovanian top duo Mitja Petkovsek (P.bars) and Aljaz Pegan (H.bars)....