16. März 2010
Tokio, Japan
Artistic Gymnastics

According to a report by the "Japanese Association for the promotion of Sports and Health" the Olympic Medal belonging to the German gymnast Hermann Weingärtner from Frankfurt - from the first Olympic Games 1896 in Athens was stolen from a museum in Tokio - by who, is unknown.  The winner plakets (the grading Gold / Silver / Bronze were only introduced later) was taken from an unlocked, unguarded vitrine.

16. März 2010
Chiba, Japan
Artistic Gymnastics

From March 13 to 16 the 11th Asian Junior Championships 2010 of Artistic and Trampoline Gymnastics took place in Chiba, Japan.
Altogether 12 female and male gymnasts representing 16 nations took part at these events, which were also the official qualifications for the upcoming I. Olympic Youth Games, which will be held in August in Singapore.

In Artistic Gymnastics the Japanese hosts were the winner in team but also at the all-around events ...

15. März 2010
Cottbus
Artistic Gymnastics

She bravely smiled to the audience, but with a sore heart, as the member of the German Gymnastics Team Jenny BRUNNER said goodbye and stepped out of the German Team Masters 2008, TuS Chemnitz-Altendorf, and left the rows of the German national team. It is a nice gesture, that the German Gymnastics Federation gave a leaving ceremony to Jenny, infront of the attactive auditorium - as always, on Sunday in the Lausitz Arena at the  ...

14. März 2010
Cottbus, Germany
Artistic Gymnastics

The second world cup event of artistic gymnastics of the new 2010 circuit  finished on Sunday with the second part of final events in Cottbus, Germany.
It was the 34th anniversary of this traditional event.
Altogether 108 participants (72 men, 36 women) representing 24 different nations arrived in Cottbus .
At the end of the Sunday's finals the winners came from five different countries on men's and four different nations on the women's side...
The most successful gymnast was the...

11. März 2010
Moscow, Russia
Artistic Gymnastics

The Russian media reported, that the rising Russian gymnast Kristina GORYUNOVA will not be able to compete in the 2012 Olympic Games after being suspended for one year by the Russian Gymnastics Federation, this week for using banned medication. Local media wrote that the samples taken from the 17-year-old at the national championships in November 2009, contained traces of the forbidden substance (one of furosemide analogues).
Goryunova justified the results by saying she was taking a food additive trying to lose weight,...

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