25. August 2004  
Olympic city Athens  
Artistic Gymnastics

Carl Lewis for Ronny Ziesmer

Carl Lewis with a spontaneous reaction for Ronny

Carl Lewis for Ronny Ziesmer

The World star of athletics and nine-time Olympic Champion from the USA Carl Lewis took part in a support- campaign for the injured gymnast Ronny Ziesmer in the studio of the German TV- station “ARD” today. He suggested to use inches and not centimeters for calculating the value of the width of his standing long- jump into Euros. His 27.10 inches will bring the amount of 8,500 EUR to the account for donations to Ronny Ziesmer. Carl then addressed directly to Ronny with the words “….Ronny, you will make it…!”

Ronny Ziesmer's 1st TV- interview after the accident

On Monday Ronny Ziesmer impressed the German TV- audience during his 1st interview after the accident in which he congratulated his team mates to their success of reaching the team final in Athens and wished good luck to Fabian Hambüchen for the high-bar final.
The wave of support for Ronny meanwhile continues. The campaign of the German TV- station “ARD” in Athens with the standing long-jumps of the guests in their studio brought already almost 40,000 EUR; on the account of the German Gymnastics Federation arrived about 50,000 EUR up to now.

Dontations for Ronny Ziesmer can be made to: account name: „Hilfskonto Ronny Ziesmer“
account holder: Stiftung Deutsche Sporthilfe
bank: Deutsche Bank Frankfurt
account number: 092 777 201
bank code: 500 700 10

... for payments from other countries to Germany:
 IBAN: DE 37 5007 0010 0092 7772 01
BIC (SWIFT-Code): DEUTDEFF