The 2014 International "Aeon Cup" of Rhythmic Gymnastics was one of the last competitions of the season but one of the most important of the year at the same time, behind the World Championships, which was held in September in Izmir, Turkey.
The best RG clubs of the world competed in Tokyo for this prize for teams. Teams consist of 3 gymnast - two elite gymnasts and one junior gymnast - it's like an unofficial "World Championship" for clubs....
At the 33rd WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS of RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS 2014 (21 - 28 09) in Izmir, Turkey, where 300 gymnasts took part, proved again RUSSIA as the dominant lead nation in this discipline, fetched by team gold and also the maximum of all individual titles and medals and won alone so 7 gold medals. Only misadventures in the group qualification is needed the Russians with "only" a gold medal in the last of the group finals (3 balls /...
f i g --: The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) has suspended vice-president Michel Léglise in the latest development in the ongoing rhythmic gymnastics judges' course row. The Frenchman has been stripped of his duties as both vice-president and a member of the FIG Presidential Commission until August 31, 2016, after a Disciplinary Commission ruled he had committed "supervisory negligence" at an Intercontinental Judges' Course he ran in Bucharest, Romania, in December 2012.
Altogether 4x gold there was for the Austrian gymnasts during the 2014 Asker Cup in Rhythmic Gymnastics, which was held last weekend in Norway.
The "Asker's Cup 2014" in Norway from 6 / 7th September was plnned by Austria Rhythmic gymnasts as a last test before the upcoming World Championships (Izmir / TUR, from Sep 21 on ...):
Nicol Ruprecht (65,700) won both the individual all-around in front of her teammate Natasha Wegscheider (60.750), but then...