8. August 2004
Olympic city Athens
Artistic Gymnastics
All Olympic Gymnasts arrived in Athens

With the arrival of the German delegation, almost all participants of the competitions in gymnastics are in full training in the Olympic city.
The US men already completed their second rotation, the Canadians attracted attention by their hard and strict training, and especially the elder and more experienced gymnasts appear to be excellently well prepared...
These are observation by Dieter Hofmann who will report from the competitions as GYMmedia's correspondent...

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6. August 2004
Athens / Greece
Artistic Gymnastics
Messengers of the Gods as Mascots

The story of Phivos and Athina
Phivos and Athina are the mascots of the Olympic Summer Games in Athens 2004. Athina is the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom and peace as well as Athens' patron. Phivos is better known as Apollo, the god of light and music. Both are mainly coloured in blue (representing the Greek sea) and orange (referring to the Greek sun). 196 drafts had been sent to the managers of the Olympics who finally decided in...

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5. August 2004
Athens, Stuttgart
Artistic Gymnastics
Japanese Team via Stuttgart to Athens

Japanese are aiming for a team medal...

The Japanese men s team arrived in the Olympic City and started its pre-Olympic training. It had been for almost a week in Stuttgart s Artistic-Gymnastics-Forum in order to prepare for the Olympic Games.
After winning the bronze medal at the World Championships 2003 in Anaheim the men around president Mitsuo Tsukahara and double World Champion of the previous year, Takehiro Kashima, are aiming for even more in Athens...

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3. August 2004
Liestal / Switzerland
Artistic Gymnastics
Peter Kotzurek remains in Switzerland

Kotzurek will take over Hofmann's job
Peter Kotzurek, from 1996 to 2003 head coach of the Swiss men's national team, will during the course of next year take over the job of Dieter Hofmann as head coach in the Swiss gymnastics center 'Kunst- und Geräteturnzentrum Liestal (NKL)'.
Hofmann will retire after 13 years of successful work....

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3. August 2004
Ancona / Italy
Artistic Gymnastics
Last Olympic Test: Italy beats Spain

At the last weekend of July the Italien men's Olympic team won its friendly meet against Spain with 223,500 : 219,75 points.
All-around European vice champion Rafael Martinez was the predominant in all-around with a score of 55,850 Punkten, in front of Igor Cassina (ITA; 54,500) and Allejandro Barrenechea (ESP; 54,35).
The Olympic Champion on rings of Atlanta 1996, the 34 years old Juri Chechi started on three apparatuses (9,725 on rings!) and the also in the Spainish...

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