Carl Lewis for Ronny Ziesmer

The World star of athletics and nine-time Olympic Champion from the USA Carl Lewis took part in a support- campaign for the injured gymnast Ronny Ziesmer in the studio of the German TV- station “ARD” today. He suggested to use inches and not centimeters for calculating the value of the width of his standing long- jump into Euros. His 27.10 inches will bring the amount of 8,500 EUR to the account for donations...

Three judges suspended...
Athens, 20-Aug: -- The F.I.G. pronounced on it's website, that after the Artistic Gymnastics Men’s All-Around Final, the Chef de Mission of the Korean Delegation to the Athens 2004 Olympic Games claimed, that the Korean Gymnast Yang Tae Young (Start Number 185) received the wrong start value on Parallel Bars. The gymnast was given a start value of 9.9, instead of a 10. This judges’ error is confirmed by the FIG.
The FIG Rules do...