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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26. August 2008
Croatia
Artistic Gymnastics
Croatian medalists receive warm welcome in home towns

Croatia's two Olympic medalists received warm welcome on their respective home towns soon after their return from Beijing.
Nearly 3,000 people gathered in the central square of the northern Croatian town of Cakovec to welcome the best Croatian gymnast, Filip Ude, who won a silver medal in the men's pommel horse in the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, the Croatian state news agency HINA reported.
Addressing the people who gathered to welcome him...

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25. August 2008
Beijing / China
Artistic Gymnastics
* ... see You in BEIJING 2008: GYMmedia OLYMPIC Website 2008

The European Gymnastics Service "GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL" is providing reports from the "Games of the XXIX Olympiad 2008" in Beijing, concentrating particularly on news about the three gymnastics disciplines ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS, TRAMPOLINE and RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS.
* This service is being supported by the leading manufacturers of gymnastics equipment in these disciplines,
- Janssen-Fritsen (NED) - artistic gymnastics;
- Eurotramp (GER) - trampoline;
- SPIETH Gymnastik (GER) - rhythmic gymnastics.
* ... Games of...

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23. August 2008
Beijing / China
Artistic Gymnastics
Age of Chinese Gymnasts:

INVESTIGATION IN PROCESS

fig-press relase: --- The Executive Committee members of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) held an extraordinary meeting today August 23, to discuss the age of Chinese female gymnasts. ...

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17. August 2008
Beijing / China
Artistic Gymnastics
* ... see You in BEIJING 2008: O L YM P I C S P E C I A L S ( II ) ....

... and what else happens in Beijing  (II) ?
.... in addition to many tourists also over 20,000 journalists are in Beijing. Numerous camera lenses follow almost every move of the athletes with more or less intensity.


"Olympic special" wants to present the moments which are usually overlooked by the majority of the journalists in their run towards the next headlines...


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