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reports from the artistic gymnastics world cup "Tournament of Masters" and will do so this year as well. The tournament is held from April 11 - 13 in Cottbus, Germany.
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... more than 170 athletes, representing 41...
MEN's World Cup Qualification Rounds
With 117 gymnasts from 41 countries, this year's FIG-World Cup tournament in Cottbus is manned excellently again.
During the qualifications today in the Lausitz-Arena in Cottbus (Germany), a lot of gymnasts used the competition to find out about their position before the European Championships and the Olympic Games...
Two Chinese gymnasts gained the lead in the men's competitions: Kai ZOU on floor and Xiaopeng LI on parallel bars. Daniel Keatings (GBR) is leading the competition on pommel horse, favorite Yuri van...
WOMEN's World Cup Qualification Rounds
In the Lausitz-Arena in Cottbus (Germany), the qualifications of the FIG World Cup tournament closed successfully. The Chinese won twice - HE, Kexin on uneven bars and LI, Shanshan on balance beam, European Champion in vault Oksana Chusovitina (Germany) came in first on vault and Sandra Izbasa from Romania was best on floor.
57 gymnasts representing 24 different nations entered the competition.
The US gymnasts are coming without their Olympic Champion Paul Hamm, but still in a threesome to the pre-Olympic World Cup event in Cottbus:
Guillermo Alvarez, Sean Golden and KevinTan, all of them of the WORLDS team in Stuttgart who still remember their displacment to the fourth position by the German squad...!
Especially Kevin TAN is aiming at a revenge facing van Gelder and Jovtshev, who displaced him tp the fourth positions in the WORLDS rings final ...
Surprisingly,...
Genuine Pre-Olympic contests...
About 70 young ladies from 32 countries are expected to come to the qualifications in Cottbus on Friday. More than one third of them - 26 to be exact - just participated in the recent European Championships in Clermont-Ferrand.
Of course, the new German European Champion on vault Oksana TSCHUSSOVITINA will be welcomed happily in Cottbus - by the way for the 12th (!) time since 1990 - actually she could receive the honorary citizenship of Cottbus for this...