The new FIG calendar 2006 is ready now... !
All fresh and very beautiful, you will discover splendid photos of gymnasts integrated in a superb graphics! For you, gymnastics’ fans, it will be pure happiness month after month…! The photos are the fruits of the work of the official F.I.G. photograph Volker Minkus from Germany while the graphics has been realised by the former world champion on rings (1989), Andreas Aguilar.
A double wedding:
Under palms and at home
Lilia PODKOPAEVA the Ukrainian Olympic, world and European champion (1996, 1995) married on first christmas day (December 25) in her hometown Donetsk her longtime boyfriend, the businessman Timofei NAGORNI, the chief manager of the company 'Sports Service.' It was the second wedding ceremony, because the couple was married in an exotic ceremony in Tahiti, on December 2nd, already.
Lilia and her husband plan on honeymooning in Austria....
'Kyle's happy Shew year'
Calgarian top male athlete Kyle Shewfelt has another attraction to help decorate his new Calgary home. The gold medallist in the floor exercise at the 2004 Athens Games was unpacking boxes yesterday when he learned he's been named winner of the 'Lionel Conacher Male Athlete of the Year Award'. 'It's extremely exciting for me,' Shewfelt said. 'This year was just like a dream.'
Today the most successful Olympic athlet, the nine-time gold medallist Larissa Latynina, celebrates her 70th birthday.
1934 born in Kherson (UKR) she owns several important Olympic records and is the only athlete, in all sports, who has won eighteen Olympic medals during her career. At last she run for beeing the Russian president, last week...
... and all the best for all Users of GYMmedia
In the name of the paralyzed German gymnast Ronny ZIESMER, who thanks on this way for the worldwide solidarity und help from different organisations, like FIG, UEG, IOC and many friendly people from all over the world...!
Ronny leaved the accident clinic Berlin yesterday for some holidays at home, but has to stay here again till March next year.
Also the team of GYMmedia...