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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. >> Read more …
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. >> Read more …
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.  >> Read more …
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.  >> Read more …
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. >> Read more …
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.  >> Read more …
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. >> Read more …
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.  >> Plus d’info …
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. >> Read more …
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.   >> Read more …
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.  >> Read more …
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.  >> Read more …
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.  >> Read more …