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...
As expected, there were the total Russian triumph on the final day of the II. Youth Olympic Games 2014 in Nanjing, China in the third gymnastics discipline, the rhythmic gymnastics:
The Olympic individual all-around discipline was won by the 15-years-old Irina ANNENKOVA from Russia with a score of 58.575, which had already been placed in qualifying at the first rank. The two-times Junior European Champion (with ball & ribbon) referred the Byelorussian Maria TRUBACH with 56.950 on...
After the stations Debrecen, Stuttgart, Lisbon, Pesaro, Corbeill-Essonnes, Tashkent and Minsk the 2014 World Cup circuit of Rhythmic Gymnastics has now made a stop in Sofia. After the all-around qualification for the World Cup Finals were on Saturday the two Russians Jana Kudryavtseva (73.900) and Margarita Mamun (72.200) - as expected - are in front of the Korean Son Yeon Jae (70.250) and Melitina Staniouta (69.550) from Belarus.
So it was also in the finals Kudryavtseva...