20. August 2006
Berlin / Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
HAMBUECHEN and BUI won the first German Trials

On Saturday, August 19 the European high bar champion 2005, Fabian HAMBUECHEN (Wetzlar) won the all-around competition of the first German trials in preparation of the upcoming world championships with a score of 90.700, followed by the 19-years old Philipp BOY (88.650; Cottbus) and Christian BERCZES (86,350; Halle).

On women's side Kim BUI from Tuebingen won the all-around with a score of 55.350 in front of Jenny BRUNNER (52.200; Chemnitz) and Heike GUNNE (52,050; Niedergirmes).

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19. August 2006
St. Paul, MN / USA
Artistic Gymnastics
Nastia Liukin and Alexander Artemev win US All-around Titles

The national championships of the USA Gymnastics Federation held in St. Paul, Minnesota this week.
Nastia Liukin won her second straight national title Saturday despite closing her night with a wobbling, warbling beam routine that belied her usual elegance and excellence. On second place came Natasha Kelley, followed by Jana Bieger, a member of last year's world championship US team,

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11. August 2006
Beijing / China
Artistic Gymnastics
Chinese Olympic veterans set to compete in gymnastics worlds

China will send a team combined with veterans and youths to the Aarhus World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in October, the Chinese press reported.
Chinese head coach HUANG, Yubin hinted yesterday that Sydney Olympic champions YANG, Wei and HUANG, Xu, who missed the 2005 Melbourne championships to make places for rookies, would compete in Aarhus.... ,

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9. August 2006
Beijing / China
Artistic Gymnastics
Olympic champion Li Xiaopeng will miss Worlds and Asiad

China's Olympic and world champion LI, Xiaopeng will surely miss October's world championships of artistic gymnastics and also the year-end 'Asian Games' in Qatar while recovering from an ankle injury, the Chinese coach CHEN, Xiong told the press: 'When he returns depends on his recovery. He may not come back until next year' he added.
The 25-year-old gymnast, who claimed the team and parallel bars gold medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and settled for a bronze in Athens...

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6. August 2006
Beijing / China
Artistic Gymnastics
Olympic Pictograms - Beijing 2008

The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) released the Pictograms of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on the occasion of the 2-year countdown to the opening of the Games.

One of the basic image elements of the Olympics, the Olympic Games Pictograms are widely applied in areas such as Olympic directional instruction system, advertising and communications, landscape and environmental arrangement, TV broadcasting and souvenir designs.

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