31. Juli 2003  
Los Angeles/USA  
Artistic Gymnastics

Swiss Greetings from L.A.

Swiss Greetings fom L.A.

Swiss gymnastics arrived allready in Los Angeles, though they are not talking about the Swiss national team, leaving on august 8th for the world championship. The gymnasts they refer to are the best ones from the Swiss club BTV Lucerne, lead by Bruno Nietlispach, choach of the Olympic champion Li Donghua.
Anaheim will be the start of a tour trough California, during which they will meet the best Californien teams, the top fight gym and the Stanford gyms on August 7th and August 9th, respectively....

Team of BUERGERTURNVEREINS LUCERNE with Coach Bruno Nietlispach

Buergerturnverein Lucerne

BTV Lucerns frontrunner for Swiss nationalteam competing for BTV are Swiss junior champion Roland Haeuptli and highbar junior champion Louis Thomann. The team is compended by Simon Niederberger, Mario Meier and Alexander Kurmann, as well as by the two juges and coaches André Rochat and Michael Mueller. The remaining two weeks of the trip will be spent at Li Xiaoping’s Gym working out with the Chinese national team.

Roger Sager (SUI)
- BTV Luzern

From this place they also will meet their friend from BTV Lucerne Roger Sager who’s starting at the world championships in Anaheim . (He was forth by the International Friendly Meet in Dresden (GER) last week.).
info: b.nietlispach
... more Information:
The BTV Lucerne is one of the most traditional artistic gymnastics club of the traditional European gymnastics nation of Sitzerland with a very long and successful history:
>> ... more about the Buergerturnverein Luzern/ SUI
(source: website of btv)