22. Oktober 2004
Lausanne / Schweiz
Artistic Gymnastics
CAS Decision: Hamm is the Olympic Champion!

The fig pronounced, that the Court of Arbitration for Sport has rejected the appeal submitted by the Korean Gymnast Yang Tae Young, against the judges’ decision after the Men’s Olympic All Around competition in Athens.

According to the rules in effect, the ranking will not be modified and the gold medal will remain as presented to Paul Hamm (USA)....

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22. Oktober 2004
Antalya / TURK
Artistic Gymnastics
FIG Congress: President Grandi confirmed in Office

At the 75th General Assembly (Congress) of FIG in Antalya, the Italian Bruno Grandi has been confirmed in office as President from 86 of the 96 nations.
In the first ballot, both the French Dr. Michel Leglise as well as the Japanese Koji Takizawa were elected as Vice-Presidents by the delegate; in the second ballot the Canadian Slava Corn was also elected.
Romania's Gymnastics President Vieru has not been re-elected, the Swiss Ivan Weber had already canceled his...

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22. Oktober 2004
Great Britain
Artistic Gymnastics
Kanukai JACKSON retired

The Britisch Gymnastics Association (BAGA) pronounced, that one of the best British gymnasts ever, Kanukai Jackson, the 2002 Commonwealth Games All-around Champion, 2002 European Bronze medallist on Vault, and 2000 and 2002 British All-around Champion, has decided to retire from competition.
He is already in Montreal, starting his new career as a member of the cast of the renowned Canadian “Cirque du Soleil”.

>> ... read more on the BAGA Website

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21. Oktober 2004
Helmond/Berlin
Artistic Gymnastics
Janssen&Fritsen relaunched its Website

Relaunch and top news....!
The Supplier of the Olympic Games ATHENS 2004, the Dutch company Janssen-Fritsen relaunched it website.
'We are proud to present the new Janssen-Fritsen Gymnastics website', so the J&F-export manager Mr. Willam Bouwman said. 'Under the 'old' link www.janssen-fritsen.com you will find a completely renewed website in English, published by our media partner GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL....

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21. Oktober 2004
Antalya / TURK
Artistic Gymnastics
75th FIG Congress Antaya

At the 75th General Assembly (Congress) of FIG, which started yesterday In Antalya (TUR), the FIG Executive Committee finished the analyse of the Athens issues.
The action plan will be presented to the Congress as of Thursday, so the FIG pronounced...

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