30. November 2003  
Gran Canaria  
Happy Gymnastics

43rd BLUME Gran Canaria 2003: Festival with Heart

From November 22 to November 30 took place the 43rd Festival of General Gymnastics, Blume Gran Canaria'. More than 7,500 guests from 12 different countries and three continents visited the 'Island of Eternal Spring' and took part in the different shows and events in any cities, villages and places of Gran Canaria (Spain).
The 'Blume Festival' was founded in memory of the most successful Spanish gymnast of the last century, JOAQUIM BLUME (4-times European Champion of artistic gymnastics, Paris 1956), who was deadly failed by an aircraft crash in 1959.

>> GYMmedia reported from this festival of general gymnastics, from its 'digital headquarter' in the Hotel Beverly Park in Maspalomas.

The ***Hotel 'Beverly Park' - a good partner of OC BLUME, and also the 'GYMmedia-Headquarter'


The Spanish organizers - on top with Mr. Jesus Telo junior&senior - have finished all preparations and welcome all the delegations from all over the world.
Some of them are guests of the Hotel 'Beverly Park' in Maspalomas, directly at the sun coast in the south of Gran Canaria, a top adress of the 'Island of Eternal Spring':
Good prices, top service and a frienly crew are fit for more than 1,100 guests and 500 apartements, day by day...around the year...!

Director Sen. Rodriguez-Lopez welcomes Mr. Klughammer fom OC Blume (Photo >>).
From now on the ***Hotel 'Beverly Park' is a new partner in 2004, title sponsor of 'HAPPY GYMNASTICS'.


.. first training on the tennis court of the hotel

One of the first guests...
... were the group from 'Camperwell Gymnastics Club' from a London's suburb, a traditional guest of Blume festival in the last years.
<< Also the German rhythmic gymnastics group from the club 'RSG Saar' was one of the first guests this week.
The girls from Saarbruecken (GER) with their Bulgarian coach Rositsa Dimitrova are the current German Junior-Vice-Champion 2003 of rhythmic gymnastics (groups).

Reporting from Maspalomas/GC: Eckhard Herholz / GYMmedia


DAILY REPORTS.

>> Tuesday: Maspalomas Night

>> Wednesday: Opening Ceremony

>> Thursday: Full Program

>> Friday and Saturday Reports

>> On Sunday, November 30, these 'Festival with Heart', BLUME Gran Canaria was closed with a ceremony in the stadium of Las Palmas.
Organizer Jesus Telo: 'We give our invtation to all friends of gymnastics worldwide to visit us to the
44th BLUME GRAN CANARIA FESTIVAL 2004!'

>> ... all information on the BLUME Website.

Delegation of the Olympic host 2004 brought an invitation to Sen. Jesus Telo Nunez to Athens