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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 internationale.  >> Read more …
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.  >> Read more …
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.  >> Read more …
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
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. >> Read more …
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. >< Read more …
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. >> Read more …
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. >> Read more …
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. >> Read more …
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. >> Read more …
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. >> Read more …
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. >> Read more …