10. September 2008
London, Great Britain
Artistic Gymnastics
PREVIEW: 2009 World Championships Artistic Gymnastics

The O2 Arena, London 13th-18th October 2009
British Gymnastics are thrilled to announce that the 41st  World Artistic Gymnastic Championships will be coming to "The O2 in London"  in October 2009. This will be the first time the event has ever been held in the capital and a welcome return to the United Kingdom after a decade away.
Beijing 2008 has shown the huge potential and talent of our young...

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6. September 2008
Bucharest, Romania
Artistic Gymnastics
Dragulescu retires due to health reasons

Six-time Romanian world champion (2001 - 2006), the  gymnast Marian DRAGULESCU, is retiring because of health reasons and plans to become a trainer.

One of the world's top vaulters, the 28-year-old Marian Dragulescu said Thursday, that he would retire after medical tests revealed he had chronic back problems.
To the Romanian press he said, that he would likely train young gymnasts for the Dinamo Bucharest club.

Dragulescu was bitterly upset when he failed...

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4. September 2008
Hanoi, Vietnam
Artistic Gymnastics
once again: Diuretic Furosemide in Gymnastics!

The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games will also be remembered for a number of doping scandals, one of which involved Vietnamese gymnast Do Thi Ngan Thuong, who tested positive for a banned substance after finishing last in the women’s floor exercises.

Also the Hanoi press affirmed, that the 19-year-old, who was the only female representative in artistic gymnastics from Southeast Asia, was found to have taken diuretic furosemide – a readily available drug that can be...

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2. September 2008
Buenos Aires / Argentina
Artistic Gymnastics
German teaching assistance still desired abroad

A little bit under the shade of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing took place a course for artistic gymnastics coaches in Buenos Aires (Argentina).
Almost 50 Coaches participated at this course.
Course leader was Member of the Technical Committee and Chairman of the Board of Coach Education of the German Gymnastics Federation, Dr. Flavio Bessi who was invited by the local federation to his former birth city in order to do a course.

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26. August 2008
Poland
Artistic Gymnastics
Leszek Blanik won the first Olympic gold in gymnastics for Poland

2007 World champion (vault) Leszek Blanik became Olympic champion in the vault and won the third gold medal for Poland at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. 
He is the first athlete not from China to win a gold medal in men's gymnastics at the Olympics in Beijing.
Blanik’s is the first gold Poland has ever one in Olympic gymnastics. He dedicated his victory to his son, kissed the boy's picture and showed it to the...

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