ROTTERDAM REVIEWS (1):A remarkable Artistic Gymnastics World Championship

The 42nd World Championships in MAG and 33rd Championships in WAG from 16th to 24th October at the Ahoy-Arena in Rotterdam, were remarkably in a lot of ways.
In the middle of the Olympic cycle - it was the first time after the World Championships in Stuttgart 2007 and the Olympic Games 2008 (Beijing) that the different nations could test their ranking at international level – and this possibility was taken by 69 countries, record participation!

Sympathetic Dutch hosts and organizers offered best conditions, not only from the organizational or logistically point of view, but they also created a specially friendly and open-minded atmosphere and meeting-point for the audience, athletes and journalists…

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WCh ROTTERDAM 2010 - also a meeting point for world-famous and well-known personalities
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This world event of this modern high-tech sport had a never known before medial reflection and wasn’t only sent by TV-stations over the world.
For the first time the European Gymnastic Service “GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL”, with the active support of the “Official apparatus supplier”, the Dutch world-brand “Janssen&Fritsen”, offered a virtual TV-studio that showed daily reports in over 124 countries via the internet, but also interviewed a lot of well-known people of the history of gymnastics, like the gymnastic's legend from the BeNeLux-countries, five-time Olympian and World Championships participant between 1984 and 1964, Josy STOFFEL:
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One of the most successful – if not t h e most successful coach of the world, dropped in at Rotterdam: Leonid ARKAJEW, who over 30 years, first in the Sovietunion, than in Russia, as head-coach of the men’s team, later also of the women’s team, as well as president of the Russian Gymnastics Federation, was very much involved in the development of the modern international artistic gymnastics.
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The during decades biggest rival of the Russian gymnasts was Romania, which has fallen back to the third rang after Russia and Great Britain in the European Championships in Birmingham 2010, after the big successes in the Olympic Games of 2000 and 2004.
That's the reason why the team decided to hire again the great coaches Mariana BITANG and Octavian BELU.
Octavian BELU answered our questions about his goals and demands and also about the status of the Romanian women's gymnastics:
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Andrei RODIONENKO is, together with Leonid Arkajew, one of the most known coaching character of the soviet school. He was the one who developed the "Ditjatin-Generation" during the 70s, which athletes later could beat the Japanese dominance during the 80s, taking the soviet men's gymnastics to the top of the world.
His change to the women's gymnastics was also successful:the Soviet National team was only beaten once by the Romanian squad between 1981 and 1991 (1987 in Rotterdam). After the political change, Rodionenko went abroad, among others to Canada and Australia, and came back to Russia after the Olympic Games of 2004; under his direction, the team started a new beginning, that, after the victory at the European Championships in Birmingham, was crowned in Rotterdam with the first title for the Russian team since 1991.
* GYMmedia exklusiv -: Alexander ALEXANDER & Andrei RODIONENKO (RUS)

... but also big world stars of the international gymnastics of the past came to the World Championships in Rotterdam, and were not only spectators, but, like the twice Olympic Games winner in 1996 and 2000 Simona AMANAR, as vicepresident of the Romanian Gymnastics Federation.
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The virtual GYMmedia-World Championships studio immediately got a word wide acceptance with users from over 124 countries!

Shortly, we will offer all those who are interested, organizers of gymnastics events, as well as serious providers of gymnastics videos, the possibility to use the platform www.gym-tube.com together, to increase the popularity of these aesthetic disciplines and their fascinating personalities and actors.
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Eckhard HERHOLZ