6. October 2004
Moutier / Switzerland
Artistic Gymnastics

2 weeks before the F.I.G.- World- Congress:
With an internal information document to the member federations Bruno Grandi has started a new stage on the FIG's way to new international judging regulations in artistic gymnastics:
In the document are listed the principles which according to him are required for the new 'Code de Pointage'. The FIG- World Congress will now take care of this issue at the end of October in Antalya (TUR)...

6. October 2004
Saarbrücken
Artistic Gymnastics

Grigori Misiutin (UKR), Olympic Champion from 1992 and recently head coach of the Ukrainian junior team which won the bronze medal at the European Championships in Ljubljana this year, wants to move to Saarland/ Germany.
The main reason for this is that his wife Yevgenia recently has obtained German citizenship. Her parents have been living in the city Saarbrücken for a couple of years already....

5. October 2004
Pulheim-Brauweiler / Germany
Artistic Gymnastics

With great sadness, the German gymnastics family informs, that Mr. Helmut BANTZ, the European Champion on parallel bars at the first continental championships (Frankfurt 1955) and the Olympic champion on vault in Melbourne (1956) passed away, in his hometown near Cologne, yesterday.
Helmut Bantz was a long time coach and teacher at the Sports College of Cologne and generations of students got their knowledges from him...
It's a big loss for the German gymnastics family...
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2. October 2004
Bukarest / Rumänien
Artistic Gymnastics

Five weeks only after winning the Olympic gold medal with their team in Athens the Romanian top gymnasts Oana BAN and Silvia STROESCU degleared their retirement from international top sport
The reasons are continuing injuries in the last years.

28. September 2004
Lausanne /Switzerland
Artistic Gymnastics

Will Hamm return his medal...?
Olympic all-around champion Paul Hamm had to appear in a hearing of the International Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) in Lausanne where he met again his Olympic competitor Yang, Tae Young. Four weeks after the Olympic Games in Athens ended the highest court for sports issues now takes care of the case of the US- gymnast. South Korea had informed the CAS on the mistake of the judges already during the Olympic Games.
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