* fig-news---: Russian bank VTB has renewed its sponsorship agreement with the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) for 2017, extending a support that has been in place since 2009. FIG President Morinari Watanabe and Vasily Titov, First Deputy Chairman of VTB and Vice President of the FIG, signed the renewal of the agreement in the margins of the FIG Council meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, on May 6. The agreement provides a donation of one million U.S. dollars, to be...

39^th MEN's & 38^th WOMEN's EUROPEANS

37 Federations will travel to Romania to challenge for the first European titles of the new Olympic cycle. A total of 274 gymnasts are scheduled to compete, 168 male and 106 female gymnasts. Romanian stars like Catalina Ponor, Larisa Iordache and Marian Dragulescu are sure to attract the attention of the Romanian fans. On the international stage they are joined by Olympic Champions Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE), Oleg Verniaiev (UKR), Krisztian Berki...