14. Januar 2015
London, GBR
Artistic Gymnastics
Max Whitlock presented: Suitable for Gymnasts

On the final day of "London Collections: Men" (UK’s biggest showcase of menswear), the highlights included the wellknown British fashion designer Sir Paul Smith's flexible, travel-friendly, crease-free suit Monday was the fourth and final round of shows in the normally three-day long London Collections:
Men schedule and, for those without a chauffeur-driven British Fashion Council Mercedes to zip around in, fatigue began to creep in. That, however, is what coffee, carbohydrates and free alcohol were invented for, at...

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8. Januar 2015
Baku, Azerbaijan
Artistic Gymnastics
Baku 2015 European Games signs broadcast deal in Italy

Baku 2015 European Games has today signed a broadcast deal to ensure the inaugural event will be broadcast in Italy. Leading broadcaster Sky Italia will screen live coverage and highlights across its sports channels, as well as providing extensive coverage on Sky Go.
The station has secured exclusive rights in the country and will also promote the Games via its popular Sky Sport 24 news channel to increase awareness and share the excitement of the inaugural European Games.

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8. Januar 2015
Guadalajara, MEX
Artistic Gymnastics
Mexican gymnast Romero was murdered ...

Two-time Mexican world team member Jaime ROMERO (22 years) is being mourned following his shocking murder last Saturday on the streets of Guadalajara, Jalisco. Romero was shot and killed along with a friend, Raúl Trejo Santos (23). Witnesses report that the two friends became involved in an argument in the early morning hours with a group of men, who shot them and fled in two vehicles, the police stated. The Mexican Gymnastics Federation (FMG) and the Mexican Olympic Committee were...

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7. Januar 2015
Hanoi, Viet Nam
Artistic Gymnastics
Vietnamese Gymnast Nguyen Ha Thanh announces retirement

Hanoian artistic gymnast NGUYEN Ha Thanh has decided to retire from competitive sports at the age of 26 years to focus on coaching. SEA Games winner Thanh, who is one of many such athletes residing in the capital, said to the press he is unlikely to recover his old athleticism after his knee surgery and would therefore like to coach the Ha Noi team instead. Nguyen Ha Than participated at the World Championships Rotterdam (2010), Tokyo (2011) and Antwerp (2013)Thanh...

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30. Dezember 2014
U S A
Artistic Gymnastics
Raisman Returns! - The 2012 Olympic champ talks London, comeback and more

Aly Raisman thinks about how she lost an Olympic all-around medal due to a tiebreaker “all the time” and uses it as motivation in her comeback. Raisman (20), finished tied for third with Russian Aliya Mustafina in the 2012 London Olympic all-around. Both scored 59.566. The tiebreaker meant subtracting each gymnast’s lowest score from the four apparatuses. That tiebreaker favored Mustafina, dropping Raisman to fourth. Raisman returned to a U.S. national team training camp in October for the first time in more than two...

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