* fig --: Nuno MERINO of Portugal, 33, will represent the Trampoline and Tumbling gymnasts within the Athletes’ Commission of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) for the period 2014 – 2017. It was thus decided on November 6 by the gymnasts who are currently participating in the 29th Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships, taking place in Sofia (BUL). Absent in Sofia at the 2013 Trampoline Worlds, the sole candidate Merino, who participated in all World Championships between 1998 and 2011 and...

 *fig-news --: The first of three competition days for Trampoline and Acrobatic Gymnastics got underway at El Pueblo Coliseum on Monday with qualifications and finals in the Men’s Synchronised Trampoline as well as the Women’s and Mixed Pairs Acro categories. China surprised with a rare mistake during qualifications, but 2011 World Champions Dong Dong & Xiao Tu redeemed themselves in the final, where they rediscovered their usual form and produced the most difficult routine of the day with...