26. August 2004
Olympic City Athens
Artistic Gymnastics
Olympic balance: Dragulescu and Chorkina No. I in the World-ranking lists

On top of the GYMmedia World-ranking list in the men’s field Romania’s Marian Dragulescu overtook Jordan Jovtchev and now is the new number I.

Svetlana Chorkina however managed to defend her number one position. She is followed by her team mates Elena Zamolodchikova and Anna Pavlova.
All-around Olympic Champion Carly Patterson jumped from rank 22 to rank 5…

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26. August 2004
Olympic city Athens
Artistic Gymnastics
Arkaev speaks about

In view of the judging scandals in the Olympic men’s artistic gymnastics competitions the most successful coach of the World Leonid Arkaev has asked for changes to be made. In an interview the president of the Russian gymnastics federation explained: ”Something has to happen urgently now! Maybe I shouldn’t say that but we have a mafia of judges”, this was refered to the high-bar score of Alexei Nemov.
Also the former FIG- president Juri Titov spoke from a scandal...

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25. August 2004
Olympic city Athens
Artistic Gymnastics
Carl Lewis for Ronny Ziesmer

Carl Lewis for Ronny Ziesmer

The World star of athletics and nine-time Olympic Champion from the USA Carl Lewis took part in a support- campaign for the injured gymnast Ronny Ziesmer in the studio of the German TV- station “ARD” today. He suggested to use inches and not centimeters for calculating the value of the width of his standing long- jump into Euros. His 27.10 inches will bring the amount of 8,500 EUR to the account for donations...

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22. August 2004
Olympic City Athens
Artistic Gymnastics
PRIEVIEW: First Finals day of the Olympic gymnastics competitions

Today: Gymnastics highlights - part I !

The closing highlights of the Olymic artistic gymnastics competitions traditionally take place on Sunday (Aug. 22nd) and Monday (Aug. 23rd).

On Sunday the men compete in Athen's Olympic Hall on floor, pommel horse and rings,
the women start on vault and on uneven bars...
GYMmedia reports from about 7.00 pm CET on...

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21. August 2004
Olympic city Athens
Artistic Gymnastics
latest GYM News from Athens

Three judges suspended...
Athens, 20-Aug: -- The F.I.G. pronounced on it's website, that after the Artistic Gymnastics Men’s All-Around Final, the Chef de Mission of the Korean Delegation to the Athens 2004 Olympic Games claimed, that the Korean Gymnast Yang Tae Young (Start Number 185) received the wrong start value on Parallel Bars. The gymnast was given a start value of 9.9, instead of a 10. This judges’ error is confirmed by the FIG.
The FIG Rules do...

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