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FéDéRATION
INTERNATIONALE DE GYMNASTIQUE | ||
FIG International Press Review – March 7 – 14,
2009 | ||
GYMNASTICS | ||
ACRO: Les « France » dans
le viseur
13 mars, 2009 (Le Bien Public) :
Durant tout le week-end, près de 250 gymnastes
vont s'affronter pour tenter de se sélectionner pour les championnats de
France en gymnastique acrobatique, trampoline et tumbling qui auront lieu
au mois de mai à Reims et à Grenoble. Ces
trois activités acrobatiques sont évaluées par un corps de juges, qui
apprécient l'exécution et la difficulté des exercices à partir de code de
pointage établi par la Fédération
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French Pick Teams for Milan
March 12, 2009 (International
Gymnast) : A mixture of veterans and newcomers
will represent France at the European Championships next month in Milan.
Three-time Olympian Yann Cucherat and 2008 Olympic medalists Benoit
Caranobe and Thomas Bouhail headline the men's team for Milan.
The 2009 European Championships will be held April
2-5, and will feature individual senior competition for men and women.
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Russia Picks Women's Squad for Europeans
March 12, 2009 (International
Gymnast) : Ksenia Afanasyeva, Yulia Berger,
Kristina Goryunova and Ksenia Semyonova will represent Russia at the
upcoming European Championships in Milan. Afanasyeva, Goryunova and
Semyonova will perform all four events in qualification, and Berger will
compete vault and floor exercise, women's head coach Alexander Alexandrov
said Thursday at the Russian Championships in
Bryansk. | ||
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Sport-Thousands of Chinese athletes faking ages in
Guangdong
March 11, 2009 (Reuters): The sports
ministry in Guangdong Province says it has undertaken X-Ray bone analysis
on 15,000 youth athletes and found a fifth of them had misrepresented
their age, local media reported. Suspicions of age faking have dogged
Chinese sport over the last couple of years and at one stage threatened to
cause huge embarrassment for the hosts at last year's Beijing
Olympics. Read
more … and see also Telegraph,
The
Wall Street Journal | ||
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Azerbaijan is world’s leading rhythmic gymnastics
country: Russian national team chief coach
March 11, 2009 (Trend News):
Russian rhythmic gymnastics national team chief
coach Irina Viner's interview with Trend
News. | ||
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Gymnastique rythmique - Coupe du monde: la Russie gagne toutes les
épreuves à Budapest
10 mars, 2009 (RIA
Novosti): Les Russes Evgenia Kanaeva et Vera Sessina ont
gagné lundi toutes les épreuves à la première étape de la Coupe du monde
2009 de gymnastique rythmique à Budapest, en
Hongrie. | ||
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Belarus Best at 8th Stella Zakharova Cup
March 9, 2009 (International Gymnast):
Belarus won both team titles and the women's
all-around gold at the Stella Zakharova Cup, held Saturday and Sunday in
Kiev. Israeli Olympian Alexander Shatilov won the men's all-around over
2008 Italian Olympic alternate Paolo Ottavi and Belarusian Artyom
Bykov. | ||
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Nastia Liukin stays focused on
competing
March 9, 2009 (Los Angeles Times):
Olympic star is more concerned with remaining on
top of her game than with other endeavors. Liukin, the Olympic gymnastics
star whose graceful, light artistry was the highlight of her all-around
gold medal-winning routines, has been to three U.S. team training camps at
the Texas ranch of Martha and Bela Karolyi since
Beijing. | ||
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2009 Artistic World Cup
circuit starts in Montreal
March 8, 2009 (Gymmedia): On Friday the
first World Cup at the traditional "GYMnix International 2009" in
Montreal, Canada began with strong Japanese in the men's qualification,
but in the end all final winners came from
Europe. | ||
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SPORTS WORLD | ||
SportelAmerica gets ready to
kick off
March 12, 2009 (Sport
Features): SportelAmerica 2009 will officially open its
doors in Miami next Monday with a prestigious list of representatives from
over 40 Countries slated to participate at the specialized sports TV
market. The international sports program market for
television and new media attracts a wide range of participants from sports
production, sports rights owners, TV broadcasters, Sports' Leagues and
Federations, service providers and consultants specialized in sport
matters, marketing agencies, satellite operators, new media, event
organizers, and providers of new
technologies. | ||
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BOCOG Expects To Post Olympic
Profit
March 9, 2009 (The Sport
Briefing): Jiang Xiaoyu, executive vice-president of the
Beijing Organising Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG),
has stated that the body expects to record profits in the region of US$16
million from its staging of the 2008 Games. | ||
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Commonwealth Games Security To Be Enhanced
March 9, 2009 (The Sport
Briefing): The organisers of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in
Delhi have moved to calm fears over security after investing US$15 million
in the wake of the attack on the Sri Lanka cricket team in Pakistan last
week. The Union Government of India has sanctioned the investment amid
mounting concerns following last week’s incident in Lahore, which
heightened fears following the terrorist attacks in Mumbai in November.
The Mumbai attacks had already prompted some athletes to call for the
Games to be moved. | ||
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