04. Juli 2018  
Riccione, ITA  
Happy Gymnastics

14th Festival del Sole 2018 in Riccione is in full Swing!

Gorgeous summer, pure zest for life, creative aesthetics - all these and more are attributes that put the participants of the 14th Festival del Sole 2018   in Italian Adriatic City Riccione in these days almost into a dynamic movement spree and come to the viewer, even when he sees the pictures from the opening day.
In the meantime, this top event of mass sports of general gymnastics and and the diversity of gymnastics disciplines is in full swing, colorful programs are running on streets, squares, halls and on different stages, but most important is the fact that here the hungry for movement youth of the world meets peacefully and joyfully together for communication and exchange of ideas.

Participants from 20 countries on stage for the opening of 14. Festivals del Sole 2018 - the unique sunny festival on the Italian Adriatic coast.

 

GYMmedia correspondent Achim SCHAEFER has captured some of this festival mood and documented it in his photos and in a video from the opening ceremony in the Italian tourist resort on the Adriatic coast ...:


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♦ SONNY IMPRESSIONS.
GYMmedia photographer Achim Schäfer watched actions in many places in the festival city, backstage was rehearsed, ....

 

... so that the demonstrations and the performances on streets and squares could succeed perfectly!

Everywhere, the almost unlimited variations of the joy-oriented gymnastics in colorful choreographies in ethnic and national diversity were admired, whether gymnastics, dance or acrobatic elements: the combinations are no limit!


... certainly the participants from the Far East take home this special, peaceful European flair of the "Olympic everyday life", also in that country, which in two years, the more performance-oriented youth in the world to the Olympic Games (Tokyo 2020) receives.

This "Festival of the Sun" in Riccione represents the slightly different side of the sporting medal, the general sport, which is now an indispensable part of modern societies and global and is becoming more important from year to year! (c) gymmedia / E. Herholz