14. August 2004
Olympic City Athens
Artistic Gymnastics
Men s Team Qualification: Japan as best Nation!

Japan’s gymnasts assumed the leadership after the third round of the last group and turned out to be the best gymnastic nation with 232.134 points in the preliminary competition. The team from USA with 230.419 points as well as Romania (230.019) followed on the ranks.
Besides China (4th), Ukraine (5th), Russia (6th) and Korea (7th.), the German gymnasts qualified as eighth for the team final on Monday with an enormous gladiatorial performance...

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13. August 2004
Olympic City Athens
Artistic Gymnastics
The Games of the XXVIIIth Olympiad are opened!

A theatrical mixture of ancient and modern Greece launched the Athens Olympics on Friday, lifting spirits in the Games' birthplace after the host nation was rocked by a drugs drama involving its two top sprinters.
A worldwide television audience saw a grand opening ceremony lift the curtain on the biggest sports show on earth, as patrolling helicopters and troops underlined the Games are guarded by the largest security operation in peacetime Europe.
The Greek gymnasts Dimosthenis Tambakos,...

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13. August 2004
Olympic City Athens
Artistic Gymnastics
Christoph Schärer: A Man with an Olympic Dream on High Bar...

Besides Andreas Schweizer, Christoph Schärer is the second Swiss individual gymnast, after the Swiss team did not qualify for the Olympics by a norrow edge in Anaheim, despite a positive trend in the last years...
After his bronze medal of the ECh in Ljubljana, he is now aiming for the Olympic final on high bar in Athens. This was achieved lastly for Switzerland by Dieter Rehm on vault and high bar in Sydney 2000 ...

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12. August 2004
Olympic City Athens
Artistic Gymnastics
Thursday: The Women s Podium Training

Brazilian Olympic premiere is in the offing...
According to the regulations of the team qualification on the upcoming Sunday, today the women's podium training took place in Athens' Olympic Hall.
For the first time in history a Brazilian women's team qualified for Olympic Games, after 12 years North Korea is present again for the third time since 1980, and Germany is again represented by two individual gymnasts for the first time since 1996...

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11. August 2004
Olympic City Athens
Artistic Gymnastics
Wednesday: The Men s Podium Training

Along the lines of the schedule of the men's first preliminary competitions, which form the beginning of the Olympic gymnastics competitions on Saturday, the offical podium training took place divided in three groups on Wednesday.
At 12.30 h France, Romania, Italy and Canada started, at 16.30 h Russia, Spain and USA followed and in the evening group at 20.30 h Korea, Germany, Japan and World Champion China performed for the first time on the Olympic podium in the competition hall ....

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