1. August 2003
Paris/France
Artistic Gymnastics

Under the protection of the International Olympic Committee take place the '7th European Youth Olympic Festival 2003' in the French capital Paris.
The best European talents of 10 kind of sports come together this week.
The Ukrain girls won the team competition, followed by Netherlands, Russia and Romania. Yulia Lozhechko (RUS/26,025) won the all around competition and Giorgia Benecchi (ITA) was the double winner on final day...

1. August 2003
Salt Lake City/USA
Artistic Gymnastics

This week the Uzbekistan Federation released Oksana Chusovitina to compete for the Germans for humanitarian reasons.
However, since Oksana has not lived in Germany for 3 years, she does not yet have permission of the German government to compete for the German team.
Just now Oksana Chusovitina is in a special tarining camp together with the German team on the campus of the University of Utah...

31. Juli 2003
Los Angeles/USA
Artistic Gymnastics

Swiss gymnastics arrived allready in Los Angeles, though they are not talking about the Swiss national team, leaving on august 8th for the world championship. The gymnasts they refer to are the best ones from the Swiss club BTV Lucerne, lead by Bruno Nietlispach, choach of the Olympic champion Li Donghua.
Anaheim will be the start of a tour trough California, during which they will meet the best Californien teams, the top fight gym and the Stanford gyms...

31. Juli 2003
Moutier/Schweiz
Artistic Gymnastics

The International Gymnastics Federation announced yesterday, that the Spanish Olympic champion (vault, 2000 Sydney) Gervasio Deferr will be stripped of his last world silver medal (floor, Debrecen 2002) because of a positiv drug test (marijuana) prior to world championships last autumn.
Deferr was test positive for marijuana at both the Spanish Championships and subsequent French International. The Spanish Sports Council suspended Deferr for three months in the spring of 2003., but now the FIG Disciplinary Commission announced Deferr's three...

31. Juli 2003
La Louvi?re/Belgium
Artistic Gymnastics

The wellknown Company and Agency DRAGONE from Belgium, which created the opening ceremony for the European Soccer championship 2000 in the Heysel stadium of Brussels and which is a worldwide working company for different shows and events, is looking for talents for interesting projects, where sports meet the magic of theatre....

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