Olympic Test Events finished: Rhythmic Gymnastics - 2nd final day

>> March 22 - 24: Rhythmic Gymnastics Competitions

>> March 17- 21: Artistic Gymnastics Competitions
On Sunday the 2nd final day finished:
Winner on men's vault was the Romanian Dorin Selariu, Kensuke Murata won on bars andVlasios Maras on high bar.
...best on beam was the world champion FAN, Ye (CHN) and on floor Elena Gomez from Spain....

...all & more on the special website 'OLYMPIC YEAR 2004', powered by J&F.

>> 19th March:Trampoline women: Not the favourits...
>> ...but Huang, Shan Shan (39,600) from China won the women's competition in Athens in front of Anna Dogonadze (GER / 39,600) and Olympic Champion Irina Karavaeva (RUS / 39,000).
Trampoline men: Not the favourits...
>> ... but Alexander Rusakov (RUS / 40,600) was the best in front of Alan Villafuerte (NED / 40,500) and Peter Jensen (DEN / 40,100). Olympic Champion Alexander Moskalenko (RUS) had to break his exercise.
>> Reports and Results of Trampoline competitions men & women

>> 16th March: Podium training for the Pre-Olympics
With great efforts the Greek organizers tried inside the venue “to make forget” the building site atmosphere which still can be found outside now exactly 5 months before the opening of the Olympic Games 2004: During the last 2 weeks they prepared a beautiful venue inside and the Olympic supplier Janssen&Fritsen arrived with 15 containers. With more than 70 female and 35 male gymnasts the training on the blue podium started today..
USA, Russia, Italy and Korea have been the first teams which trained already on Monday while others had some problems travelling from the World Cup in Lyon to Athens due to the weather conditions.
The US-girls Courtney McCool and Samantha Sheeham presented themselves perfectly and dynamic on uneven bars. With only short breaks in between they showed a several full routines without any mistakes.

Innovations
Janssen&Fritsen is presenting a completely new system for the floor (“Apollo”) which shows improvements especially in the diagonales. During training all nations were positively impressed by it!
Also two new variations of springboards will be used (hard/ soft). Nonetheless, the FIG also still allowes the old boards to be used in this transitional period.

Olympics: In five months
The hosts are doing their best to create the Olympic atmosphere already now. However, looking through the city of Athens, one still seems to be quite far away from the Games…
For the guests it is a “mediteranean secret” how the large building sites around the competition venue – which is ready – will be finished in only 5 months now. Especially in the Olympic stadium still a lot of work will have to be done.
Nonetheless, “inside“ of course the Pre-Olympics can start with the best conditions due to the technical equipment and the friendly hosts who are doing their best.

Detailled reports at GYMmedia

Starting with on-site reporting from the “Pre- Olympics” and then followed by reports from the European Championships in the Olympic disciplines and highlights on the way to the Olympic Games, GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL presents this detailled reporting together with their main partner Janssen&Fritsen, 'Official Supplier of the Olympic Gymnastics Competitions' -. The reports can be found on www.gymmedia.com.

Olympic Complex
During the Olympic Games the artistic gymnastics and trampoline competitions will take place in the Olympic Indoor Hall. It can be found on the area of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex and has room for about 15,000 spectators.

The Galatsi Olympic Hall (Rhythmic Gymnastics) has 6,000 seats.