16. August 2004
Olympic city Athens
Artistic Gymnastics
MEN s TEAM FINAL: Japan is back, Gold after 28 years!

A dramatic fight of Continents:
Asia - America - Europe
With a technically very impressive team performance Japan managed to win the gold medal in the men’s team competition again after 28 years. They reached the score of 173.721 and clearly stayed in front of the USA who won silver with 172.933 which brought them the first Olympic team medal after the Games in 1984.
Also the Romanians lost the dramatic battle for gold at the last...

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15. August 2004
Olympic city Athens
Artistic Gymnastics
Women s qualification rounds: Romania in front of USA and China


The Olympic Champion from 2000 Romania was the best and most consistent team during today’s team qualification. With the score of 152.436 they took the lead in front of their main competitor USA and China.

Russia, Ukraine, France, Spain and Australia also reached the final of the best 8 teams which will take place on Tuesday.

Brazil, Canada, Great Britain and North Corea followed on the ranks 9 – 12.

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14. August 2004
Olympic City Athens
Artistic Gymnastics
Men s Team Qualification: Japan as best Nation!

Japan’s gymnasts assumed the leadership after the third round of the last group and turned out to be the best gymnastic nation with 232.134 points in the preliminary competition. The team from USA with 230.419 points as well as Romania (230.019) followed on the ranks.
Besides China (4th), Ukraine (5th), Russia (6th) and Korea (7th.), the German gymnasts qualified as eighth for the team final on Monday with an enormous gladiatorial performance...

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13. August 2004
Olympic City Athens
Artistic Gymnastics
Christoph Schärer: A Man with an Olympic Dream on High Bar...

Besides Andreas Schweizer, Christoph Schärer is the second Swiss individual gymnast, after the Swiss team did not qualify for the Olympics by a norrow edge in Anaheim, despite a positive trend in the last years...
After his bronze medal of the ECh in Ljubljana, he is now aiming for the Olympic final on high bar in Athens. This was achieved lastly for Switzerland by Dieter Rehm on vault and high bar in Sydney 2000 ...

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13. August 2004
Olympic City Athens
Artistic Gymnastics
The Games of the XXVIIIth Olympiad are opened!

A theatrical mixture of ancient and modern Greece launched the Athens Olympics on Friday, lifting spirits in the Games' birthplace after the host nation was rocked by a drugs drama involving its two top sprinters.
A worldwide television audience saw a grand opening ceremony lift the curtain on the biggest sports show on earth, as patrolling helicopters and troops underlined the Games are guarded by the largest security operation in peacetime Europe.
The Greek gymnasts Dimosthenis Tambakos,...

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