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FéDéRATION
INTERNATIONALE DE GYMNASTIQUE | ||
Press Review – October 24 – 31,
2008 | ||
GYMNASTICS | ||
Gale blows away the opposition as Bulmershe
shine
October 30, 2008
(Getwokingham): Bulmershe Gymnastics of Woodley continued its
remarkable surge as this country’s standard bearer for aerobic gymnastics,
a sport widely perceived as the most dynamic and energetic of all
gymnastic disciplines. At the 2008 British Championships held at Fenton
Manor in Stoke-on-Trent earlier this month, gymnasts from Bulmershe were
on fire. | ||
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Russian athletes take Gold and
Silver medals home
KAOHSIUNG (TPE), October 30, 2008
(KOC): The second day of rhythmic gymnastics
competitions, the Russian gymnast Natalia PICHUZHKINA had overwhelmed
victory in four competitions of individual Apparatus and again excelled in
today’s Clubs and Ribbon competitions. | ||
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Two Gold medals for
Russia
KAOHSIUNG (TPE), October 28, 2008
(KOC): First day of Gymnastics Pre-Event for The World
Games 2009 ended with two victories for 17-year-old Russian Vice-World
Champion Natalia PICHUZHKINA, who dominated the Hoop as well as the Rope
competition. Both silver medals were awarded to Aleksandra ERMAKOVA (RUS).
PEI-LUNG Yu, competing for Chinese Taipei, won the bronze medal in the
Hoop competition. | ||
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Illinois gymnastics coach resigns amid police
probe
October 27, 2008 (Chicago
Tribune): Jon Valdez has resigned after eight years as a University of
Illinois men's gymnastics coach amid a university police
investigation into allegations of possible misconduct by Valdez, sources
said. Assistant athletic director Kent Brown confirmed
Monday that Valdez had left his job Oct. 17 for "personal reasons," but
Brown would not confirm that Valdez was being
investigated. | ||
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FIG Goes Heart Healthy With Defibrillators
October 27, 2008 (International
Gymnast): The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) is
instituting a rule requiring defibrillators to be present at all of its
competitions. The rule, established at the recent FIG Congress in Helsinki
and announced Monday, will be in place for all FIG events, including World
Cup competitions. Defibrillators send electrical jolts to the heart,
potentially saving the life of someone who is in cardiac arrest.
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Can I see some ID? Gymnasts will need license
LAUSANNE (SUI), October 27, 2008 (International
Herald Tribune): Gymnasts will now have to start showing ID long
before the Olympics. Beginning Jan. 1, all junior and senior gymnasts who
represent their countries at most international meets will need a license
from the International Gymnastics Federation. The licenses will include
gymnasts' name, sex, country and date of birth, and be their proof of age
for their entire career. | ||
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Olympic all-around champion Liukin wins "Athlete of
the Year" in gymnastics
BEIJING (CHN), October 27, 2008
(Xinhua): American Olympic champion Nastia Liukin won the
award of "Athlete of the Year" in gymnastics, as the FIG statement said on
Sunday. The president of FIG, international gymnastics
governing body, Bruno Grandi announced attribution of the "Athlete of the
Year" award to Liukin, the Beijing Olympic champion in women's all-around
last week in FIG's General Assembly in Helsinki.
Read
more … and see also China
Daily | ||
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FIG postpones deadline for trampoline 2009 World Cup
bidding
BEIJING (CHN), October 27, 2008
(Xinhua): The deadline to bid for organizing 2009 World Cup
competitions in trampoline, aerobic and acrobatic gymnastics had been
pushed back to the end of the year, FIG, the governing body of
international gymnastics announced on Sunday. Andre Gueisbuhler, FIG
secretary general, announced the decision after the General Assembly of
FIG last week in Helsinki. | ||
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7th European TeamGym Championships
2008
October 25, 2008 (UEG): After Jyväskylä
FIN, Odense DEN, Birmingham GBR, Chalons en Champagne FRA, Dornbirn AUS,
Ostrava CZE, the UEG had entrusted in 2007 the organisation of the 7th
TeamGym Championship to the Gymnastics Federation of Belgium, which
ensures the preparation and running of this event together with the
Flemish Gymnastics Federation and its president Rik
Dombrecht. | ||
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Q and A with Alicia
Sacramone
October 25, 2008 (Connecticut Post):
Question: What was your take on the Chinese
gymnasts' age flap? Answer: "Everybody wants to know my two cents on
that subject. They say, 'What did you think?' And I say, 'They looked
young' and that's all I really can say because that's all I know.
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Gymnastics: Ambitious McGowan
aims to take next step
October 22, 2008 (Crewe
Chronicle): Tumbling ace Sam McGowan is facing up to her
biggest challenge yet as she aims to take a step closer to fulfilling her
international dreams. The 17-year-old Crewe and Nantwich GC ace won at the
National Development Plan (NDP) Tumbling finals in
July. | ||
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Lavinia Milosovici / ROU loses her little 4
year old girl
October 16, 2008 (UEG): The Romanian
press informs that Lavinia Milosivici, multiple Olympic, European, and
World Champion in the nineties has lost her little 4 year old girl after a
long illness. | ||
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SPORTS WORLD | ||
World Games Pre-Events open
with dance performances in Kaohsiung
KAOHSIUNG (TPE), October 29, 2008 (The China
Post): The World Games 2009 Pre-Events Series of
athletic contests kicked off yesterday at the Kaohsiung Arena in southern
Kaohsiung City. Mayor Chen Chu and Ron Froehlich, president of the
International World Games Federation, jointly opened the sports events
that will last until Nov. 6. Modern kinetic dance and traditional
aboriginal dance were among the performances at the opening
ceremony. | ||
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Upcoming World Games to put
Kaohsiung in world’s spotlight
KAOHSIUNG (TPE), October 28, 2008 (The China
Post): Since Kaohsiung was awarded the privilege of
hosting The World Games 2009 in mid- 2003, a blissful ambiance has filled
the southern Taiwan port city. What’s behind the joyful scene is the
efforts of all the working staff of The World Games 2009 Kaohsiung
Organizing Committee (KOC), the Kaohsiung City Government, as well as tens
of thousands of volunteer citizens who are working together with the
common goal of bringing glory to Kaohsiung as the host city for The World
Games 2009 on July 16-26. | ||
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Tokyo 2016 commits to greener
Olympics
October 28, 2008 (Sportbusiness
International): The city of Tokyo has taken a global leadership
position on environment and sustainability, adopting every environmental
initiative put forward by planners at the C40 Climate Change
Conference. The move is a boost to Tokyo 2016’s plan to host
the greenest Olympic and Paralympic Games in history. The conference, an
international forum to discuss the measures needed to develop sustainable
low-carbon cities, took place in Tokyo, and set out 13 areas of action
that cities should take to address the risks of climate
change. | ||
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The World Games 2009:
Pre-Events
October 27, 2008 (IWGA): A press
conference at the brand new Kaohsiung Arena marked the start of the
Pre-Event Series, competitions which serve as a full dress rehearsal for
next year's World Games. The Managing Director of the Kaohsiung Organizing
Committee, Mrs. Liu Shyh-Fang announced that the ticket sales for
Pre-Events in gymnastics and korfball exceed 30,000
already. | ||
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Kaohsiung City to promote World Games in Hong
Kong
October 25, 2008 (CNA): The Kaohsiung
City government will hold a news conference in Hong Kong Saturday
afternoon to promote the 2009 World Games, scheduled for next July, and a
warm-up event that will start Oct. 28, a local official said late
Friday. Read
more … and see also Taiwan
News and The
China Post | ||
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Terra acquires 2010 & 2012
Internet rights
October 24, 2008 (Sportbusiness
International): Terra, the largest internet company in Latin
America, has acquired the internet and mobile platform exhibition rights
within Latin America (excluding Brazil) for the 2010 and 2012 Olympic
Games. | ||
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Canada to host the 8th World
Conference on Sport and Environment
October 23, 2008 (IOC): Today marks the
registration launch for the 8th World Conference on Sport and the
Environment (WCSE). The event will be held from 29 to 31 March 2009 in
Vancouver, host of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Organised jointly by the
International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Vancouver 2010 Organising
Committee (VANOC), in close partnership with the United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP), the conference will bring together
representatives of governmental and non-governmental institutions dealing
with sport and the environment, the United Nations system, universities,
as well as the Olympic Family. | ||
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2016 Evaluation Commission:
dates of visits to Candidate Cities
October 23, 2008 (IOC): As from April
2009, the IOC Evaluation Commission will visit the four Candidate Cities
bidding for the 2016 Olympic Games. The visits will be carried out by the
Commission from 4 to 7 April in Chicago (USA), 16 to 19 April in Tokyo
(Japan), 29 April to 2 May in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and 5 to 8 May in
Madrid (Spain). The Commission will spend four days with each bid
committee. | ||
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