Almost a little "gone with the wind" was this 2^nd edition of "International Rhythmic Gymnastics Cup BLUME 2014".
Originally scheduled at 2 pm, then moved to 4 pm, the competition started at 6 pm finally after the 3rd installaition : The reason was the difficult weather conditions in the Canary Islands: Strong winds blowed over Gran Canaria! So the also planned international artistic gymnastics competitions on the same day even fail completely, because the roof structure of the competition hall was in danger ...
But the young rhythmic gymnast of the German champion group of SKC TABEA Halle were undeterred by all  this and they repeat her victory from last year in the big sports hall of Las Palmas again ...:

The capital Las Palmas (Gran Canaria) on the main Island of the Canaries was the incident of the very first International BLUME AEROBIC Cup 2014 in the 54^th year history of the world-famous general gymnastics festival "BLUME Gran Canaria".
In addition to Rhythmic and artistic Gymnastics, Judo, TeamGym should continue new international competition formats complement the broad program in itself palette for attractive forms of different competitions.
So it is the strategy of the organizers of the Spanish capital club "Gimnasio Las Palmas", to raise the public and media interest on the full range of modern sport.

Every beginning is difficult, however, before prevail new competition formats in the scene will be known, worldwide. Thus, only three clubs from Spain and Germany were initially at the premiere represented that. In the categories of individual, couples, groups and step aerobicsAlso present at this I^st International Aerobic Cup 2014 were participants from Germany, the aerobic center from Halle, which is one of the strongest German centers of this discipline, and the Club TG Zellhause, which measured with the Spanish club "Altau Las Huesa" ...

Organizers and participants in the big Sports Hall of Las Palmas were sure this is already widely accepted the invitation in the coming year from more Aerobics ...!
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On the second night of the stage shows at the BlumeFestival in Maspalomas, the German Grandmother of gymnastics, Johanna Quaas, flew formally the hearts: Together with the German Hessian "father of gymnastics", senior gymnast and bedrock, Ernst Niesner, she joined the evening show at the commercial "Jumbo center" on - both with her floor routine. Nearly a storm of enthusiasm they showered and there was even a standing ovation, especially for Johanna, namely as the audience heard that she has just celebrated her 89^th birthday three days before ...!

BLUME-OC chief Jesus Telo Rodriguez was  very enthusiastic about the island press coverages one day later: Johanna Quaas from Halle an der Saale offers full-pages next day at the Island's newspapers (* look at ...> La Provincia from Nov 25) and there have been numerous media inquiries for more contacts and interviews with the oldest gymnast of the world! It is just amazed the whole world how powerful a woman with almost ninety years can be! Sometimes Johanna Quaas herself also wonder about it, because for her it is a life-long acquired knowledge that regular sport and in particular the age-appropriate gymnastics operated together to keep the body and mind.
Nothing else is also behind the BLUME festival philosophy, which it applies are continually varied to prove it!