15. März 2010
Cottbus
Artistic Gymnastics
Germany s gymnast Jenny Brunner says goodbye to professional sports

She bravely smiled to the audience, but with a sore heart, as the member of the German Gymnastics Team Jenny BRUNNER said goodbye and stepped out of the German Team Masters 2008, TuS Chemnitz-Altendorf, and left the rows of the German national team. It is a nice gesture, that the German Gymnastics Federation gave a leaving ceremony to Jenny, infront of the attactive auditorium - as always, on Sunday in the Lausitz Arena at the  ...

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14. März 2010
Cottbus, Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
World Cup in Cottbus:Canadian Vaculik with two and German hosts with three successes

The second world cup event of artistic gymnastics of the new 2010 circuit  finished on Sunday with the second part of final events in Cottbus, Germany.
It was the 34th anniversary of this traditional event.
Altogether 108 participants (72 men, 36 women) representing 24 different nations arrived in Cottbus .
At the end of the Sunday's finals the winners came from five different countries on men's and four different nations on the women's side...
The most successful gymnast was the...

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11. März 2010
Moscow, Russia
Artistic Gymnastics
Russian Gymnast Kristina Goryunova suspended in Moscow

The Russian media reported, that the rising Russian gymnast Kristina GORYUNOVA will not be able to compete in the 2012 Olympic Games after being suspended for one year by the Russian Gymnastics Federation, this week for using banned medication. Local media wrote that the samples taken from the 17-year-old at the national championships in November 2009, contained traces of the forbidden substance (one of furosemide analogues).
Goryunova justified the results by saying she was taking a food additive trying to lose weight,...

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7. März 2010
Montreal, Canada
Artistic Gymnastics
Foul-start in Montreal: The World Cup system of the gymnasts is out ...!

"Gymnix - was nothing ..."!
Even if it sounds promising in the range of a socalled B-World Cup, a few days before the 34th Cottbuss Tournament: The World Cup System of the FIG is definitely "out"!
A meager 11 gymnasts from 6 nations got "lost" to the 1. World Cup season, which was meant to be a season opening, to the traditional "GYMNIX-competitions" to Montreal, together with another 4 Canadian athletes...Because of a lack of...

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6. März 2010
Berlin
Artistic Gymnastics
Series winner Japan wins the International Junior Team-Cup for the 5th time


And again the European juniors were frustrated with the success of the japanese young gymnasts qualities :
For the 5 time in a row,  JAPANS young league won in Berlin in the big sports hall at the Weißenseer Weg also the "15. International Junior Team Cup 2020" and showed off all its new talent:
With 247,350 points the Japanese quartett won ahead of SPAIN I (245,750) and SWITZERLAND (244,350). Like in the previous year the host assortment of ...

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