GYMNASTICS
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Rule means longer
wait for new junior champ.
DALLAS - AP - Eddie Pells:
Twelve-year-old Kyla Ross won the junior national title Saturday,
a victory that sets her up as one of the young women to watch for
the next four years. Just don't expect to see her much. Ross will
turn 16 in 2012 and eligible for the London Olympics, but a new
international rule will prevent her from competing in senior
events until that year. It means she'll still be a junior in 2011,
which will prevent her from competing at the very important world
championships that precede the Games. >>
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Bridget Sloan Wins U.S. Gymnastics Championship
Olympic medalist
Bridget Sloan
has won the women's national gymnastics championship, overcoming
an early deficit to outscore
Ivana Hong
117.55-117.25 to capture her first title.
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ACRO World
Cup And Symposium
From August 19 –
23, the city of Veliky Novgorod (RUS) will be hosting a stage on
the category B FIG Acrobatic Gymnastics World Cup Series. A
symposium is planned for August 23, 2009. It will take place in
the same venue in conjunction with this FIG World Cup Series. >
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Volunteer
for the 2010 Pacific Rim Championships
Gymnastics
Australia would like to invite all interested persons to volunteer
for the 2010 Pacific Rim Championships. The 2010 Pacific Rim
Championships will involve the following gymsports: Men's and
Women' Gymnastics, Rhythmic Gymnastics, Trampoline Sports, and
Acrobatic Gymnastics. Volunteers will be required in a number of
key roles across two venues.
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New Official Bulletins from ……..
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CHI - Federacion Chilena de
Gimnasia…. >
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ITA - Federazione Ginnastica
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SPORTS WORLD
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Softball and baseball — out, again
BERLIN — Doubtlessly, the International Olympic Committee’s
decision to pass on softball and instead propose rugby and golf
for addition to the 2016 Summer Games will be seen by some
advocates of women’s sport as a setback, a step back, a slap in
the face delivered by the proverbial ol’ boys’ network.
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Golf und Rugby können 2016 olympisch
werden
Vor allem die Sponsoren werden für diese
Entscheidung gesprochen haben: Golf und Rugby könnten 2016
olympisch werden, wenn die Vollversammlung dem Plan der
IOC-Exekutive zustimmt.
Aussortiert sind Karate, Squash und Inline Skating.
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Lamine Diack,
IAAF President answering questions from Sport
Intern
Do you feel
football is sucking the life out of most other sports? (Less
television coverage, less space in newspapers, fewer sponsors) If
so, what can be done about it?
There is no doubt
that football – which was always by far the most popular sport –
has become even more dominant in recent years because of the
explosion of media and commercial interest. Now, there seems to be
football on TV 24 hours a day. FIFA is also extremely active in
supporting it federations. Just taking the example of Senegal, the
football federation has recently built a fine HQ, they receive 1
million dollars every 4 years, and a football academy close to
Dakar is virtually complete.
So in the
short term, it is very difficult to challenge this. It is only by
long term planning, and in the case of athletics, getting
athletics back in the schools from a young age, which will ensure
that in the future, as in the past, kids can be footballers but
they will also be able to do other sports. The grave danger is
when the only sports’ option for youngsters is football, and this
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USOC own TV
network
The US Olympic Committee (USOC) has
postponed plans for launching its own television network following
objections from the International Olympic Committee (IOC). >
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Saturday TV Ratings: Criminals
attract more eyeballs than gymnasts
The
summer burn off of original episodes of cancelled shows on
Saturday night is over, and we were back to old Saturday
patterns. We love to watch gymnastics. When it’s in the
Olympics.
It wasn’t the Olympics.
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Jacques
Rogge ready to stand down after the 2012 London Olympics.
“If re-elected, my
term would last until 2013 and I would still have I think about
nine years lease of life as an IOC member,” he told the Around
TheRings website.
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IOC Presidency -
The Contenders
Jacques Rogge has announced that he
will not stand for another term as president of the International
Olympic Committee (IOC) beyond 2013. The Belgian is expected to
win another four-year term at the IOC Congress in Copenhagen in
October. However, beyond then, the future of the IOC presidency is
uncertain. The president must be a member of the IOC, but it is
not a requirement that the individual standing for election be a
member of the IOC executive board. Here, The Sport Briefing
takes a look at Rogge’s potential successors.
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Male or Female? Gender tests are not
always easy
South African
runner Caster Semenya has been ordered to undergo a gender
verification test, to prove she rightfully won the gold medal in
the women's 800 meters at the world championships in Berlin on
Wednesday. >
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The
International Olympic Committee….
…has launched a
contest on Youtube in which the general public is invited to post
a video reply to the question "What do you think is the future of
the Olympic Games?" Triple Olympic gold medallist and recent world
Champion Usain Bolt asks the question. The best video contribution
will win a trip to Copenhagen to attend the Olympic Congress in
October! >
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