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FéDéRATION
INTERNATIONALE DE GYMNASTIQUE | ||
FIG International Press Review – April 25 – 30,
2009 | ||
GYMNASTICS | ||
Pregnancy Won't Slow Down Shannon Miller
April 29, 2009 (International
Gymnast): Impending motherhood hasn't slowed down Olympic
champion Shannon Miller, who plans to run her second kids marathon of the
spring in May. The two-time Olympian owns nine world championship medals,
including back-to-back all-around titles in 1993 and 1994. She won five
medals (two silvers and three bronzes) at the 1992 Olympic Games in
Barcelona, and four years later left Atlanta with golds with the U.S. team
and on the balance beam. She has won more world and Olympic medals than
any other U.S. gymnast in history. | ||
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U.S. gets second rhythmic finalist of '09
April 28, 2009 (Universal Sports):
Julie Zetlin finished in the top-10 in the
all-around and competed in three of the individual event finals at the
rhythmic gymnastics World Cup in Maribor, Slovenia. This is the United
States' second consecutive event in 2009 where an American gymnast has
qualified for the finals at a World Cup. | ||
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Azerbaijani gymnasts get
silver in Israel's tournament
April 27, 2009 (Trend News):
Azerbaijani junior group team got silver at the
international tournament on rhythmic gymnastics in Israeli town Holone,
the Azerbaijani Gymnastics Federation told Trend News.
Azerbaijani gymnasts scoring 23.425 in exercise with ribbon gained the
third result after Russia and Israel in the first day of the
competition. | ||
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Burnett and Khilko take the lead at the 2009 Sofia
World Cup
April 27, 2009 (Acrobatic
Sports): The preliminaries of the first World Cup of 2009
kicked off today in Sofia. The event, which is also labeled Cosmonaut
Alexandrov Cup after Bulgarian cosmonaut and Bulgarian federation official
Aleksandar Aleksandrov, is the second of the five World Cups making up the
2009 World Cup Series. The first stage of the 2009 World Cup Series took
place last September in Loule, right after the 2008 World Cup Final held
in Togliatti. | ||
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Japanese Olympians Defend National Titles
April 26, 2009 (International Gymnast):
Japanese Olympians Kohei Uchimura and Koko Tsurumi
successfully defended their all-around titles Sunday at the 63rd Japanese
National Championships in Tokyo. Uchimura, the 2008 Olympic all-around
silver medalist, became national all-around champion again following last
year's win, while Tsurumi took her fourth consecutive title. Both gymnasts
led the qualification competition Saturday. | ||
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Ito prevails at the 2009 Albacete
Tournament
April 26, 2009 (Acrobatic Sports):
The 9th International Albacete Tournament (a.k.a.,
International Tournament "Ciudad de Albacete") in trampoline and double
mini-trampoline (DMT) took place at the Pabellon Universitario of the city
of Albacete, Spain, on April 15-19, 2009. Albacete is located in the
autonomous community of Castilla-La-Mancha. It has been one of the
trampoline strongholds in Spain over the past decade. | ||
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Canadian pair top trampoline rankings
April 23, 2009
(globeandmail.com): Canada opens the World Cup season of trampoline
in a rare position — two No. 1-ranked athletes in a summer Olympic sport.
Olympic silver medal winner Jason Burnett and Rosannagh MacLennan top the
rankings in individual trampoline. Burnett, of Toronto, heads off to begin
his season this weekend at a World Cup meet April 24-25 in Sofia,
Bulgaria. | ||
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Jason Burnett bat le record du monde en coupe du monde
de trampoline
Le 24 avril 2009 (The Canadian
Press): Le Torontois Jason Burnett a obtenu la plus haute
note jamais obtenue en trampoline pour une première routine à la première
Coupe du monde de la saison, vendredi. Le médaillé d'argent des derniers
JO, qui occupe présentement le premier rang mondial, a reçu 31,6 points
pour éclipser la précédente marque de 31,4, établie par le Chinois Tu Xiao
l'an dernier. Burnett a obtenu 73,7 points au total vendredi pour se
qualifier premier en vue de la finale de
samedi. | ||
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SPORTS WORLD | ||
WADA EC and Board to discuss implementation,
enforcement of 2009 World Anti-Doping Code on May 9 -
10
April 29, 2009 (Sports Features):
The Executive Committee and the Foundation Board
of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will meet respectively on Saturday,
May 9, and Sunday, May 10, 2009, in Montreal, Canada, for the first time
this year. During these meetings, Members representing
governments of all regions of the world and the Olympic Movement will
discuss stakeholders’ implementation and enforcement of the amended World
Anti-Doping Code and International Standards, which went into effect on
January 1 of this year. | ||
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Six Beijing athletes test
positive for CERA
April 28, 2009 (Telegraph):
The International Olympic Committee announced on
Tuesday that seven samples involving six athletes who competed in China
had shown traces of the banned substance, which is an advanced version of
the red blood-cell boosting hormone EPO. | ||
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Marketing Firm Ties Up Singapore 2010
Contract
April 28, 2009 (The Sport Briefing):
McCann Worldgroup Singapore has been made the
official marketing communications services supplier to support the
Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee (SYOGOC) ahead of the
inaugural Youth Olympic Games in 2010. McCann will develop the marketing
campaign for Singapore 2010 and will collaborate with SYOGOC to formulate
the overall marketing strategies and creative development as well as the
execution of all advertising campaigns for Singapore
2010. | ||
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Nigeria: Elections Into Sports
Federations
April 28, 2009 (allafrica.com):
Barring last minute hitches, chairmen and key
officers of boards of 20 sports federations would emerge today and the
prayer of all lovers of sports must be that the best hands for the boards
should be elected to ensure the growth of sports in the
country. The election, holding in Abuja, would put in place
the boards of federations such as athletics, badminton, basketball,
boxing, chess, cricket, gymnastics, handball, judo, table tennis and
wrestling. | ||
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Next stop . . . Rio
2016
April 27, 2009 (Sports Features):
Rio de Janeiro is next in line to welcome the IOC
evaluation commission as it arrives in the city to inspect the 2016 bid
for the summer Games. The IOC group will be evaluating and learning
about the city’s bid from April 27- May 3. After a successful Pan American
Games hosting in 2007, Rio is looking to land the first South American
Olympic Games and Brazil is already the designated host for soccer's 2014
FIFA World Cup. | ||
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