* Location:
Theses 2014 Worlds will be held at the Guangxi Sports Center Gymnasium in Nanning, China, from October 3 – 12, 2014. The indoor sporting arena was inaugurated in 2012 and has a seating capacity of 9,250 spectators. Held for the first time in 1903, the championships take place every year apart from Olympic years. They include
- Men’s and women’s All-around Finals,
- Team Finals as well as
- Apparatus Finals, Men:
   Floor Exercise (FX), Pommel Horse (PH), Still Rings (SR), Vault (VT), Parallel Bars (PB) and Horizontal Bar (HB);
- Apparatus Finals, Women:
   Vault (VT), Uneven Bars (UB), Balance Beam (BB) and Floor Exercise (FX)
  ... adding up to a total of 14 medal events.

* Participation
More than 600 athletes from 74 countries have registered for the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Nanning (CHN),
The not-finalised lists of 627 entries includes all reigning World champions from the 2013 Worlds in Antwerp (BEL) except one. All-around winners Kohei Uchimura (JPN) and Simone Biles (USA) and event gold medallists Kenzo Shirai (JPN, Men's Floor), Kohei Kameyama (JPN, Pommel Horse), Arthur Zanetti (BRA, Still Rings), Yang Hak Seon (KOR, Men's Vault), Lin Chaopan (CHN, Parallel Bars, tied with Uchimura), Epke Zonderland (NED, Horizontal Bar), Huang Huidan (CHN, Uneven Bars) and Aliya Mustafina (Balance Beam) will all be back to defend their 2013 titles in China.
The U.S. will not be sending 2011 and 2013 World Vault champion McKayla Maroney, who is recovering from injury and hopes to be back in competition in 2015. Seventeen-year-old Biles is also the reigning World champion on Floor Exercise.
The F.I.G. pronounced, that the average age of women registered to repeat is 19.1 year sold - it is among the highest average age for women at a World Championships, according to statistics that date back to 1987. The average age of women at the World Championships has been increasing -- from the mid-17s in the early 2000s, it climbed up to 19.12 years for the 2011 World Championships in Tokyo and 19.78 years for the 2012 Olympic Games. The average age of female competitors at the 2013 World Championships in Antwerp (BEL) was 19.16 years.
The average age of male competitors at this World Championships would be 23.0 years, the youngest average for men at a Worlds since 2006. The average male competitor in Antwerp last year was 23.29 years, while male gymnasts who competed at the 2012 Olympics averaged 24.44 years.

*The first flips toward Rio
Although two years removed from the 2016 Olympic Games, the Nanning Worlds are important because they are the first step toward Olympic team qualification.
- The top 24 teams in Nanning will advance to the 2015 World Championships in Glasgow (GBR).
- The top eight men's and women's teams in Glasgow will automatically qualify for the Rio Olympics,
- while teams ranked ninth through 16th will qualify for the Rio Test Event, to be held early in 2016.
- The top four men's and women's teams at the Test Event will earn the final Olympic team berths.

* Situation before ...
Kohei Uchimura (JPN), Simone Biles (USA) will face stiff competition as they attempt to defend their titles Individually, World and Olympic All-around champion Uchimura will be seeking an unprecedented fifth consecutive World title.
* GYM v i d e o ---:  Kohei UCHIMURA - a top world Star!!

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Already considered by many to be the greatest gymnast ever, 25-year-old Uchimura will face some of his stiffest competition yet in Nanning in the form of his own teammate Ryohei Kato (JPN) , who finished second All-around to him in Antwerp, in addition to bronze medallist Fabian Hambuechen (GER), U.S. champion Sam Mikulak, 2013 European champion David Belyavskiy (RUS) and hungry up-and-comers Nikita Ignatyev (RUS), Sergio Sasaki (BRA) and Oleg Verniaiev (UKR).

After being sidelined by minor injuries for the first half of the international season, 2013 women's World champion Simone Biles is the favorite to win a second consecutive World title in Nanning.
* GYM v i d e o ---:  Simone BILES at the pdium training in Nnnaing (beam)

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The powerhouse from Spring, Texas performed confidently at last month's U.S. Championships, establishing herself as the gymnast to beat with extreme difficulty and superb delivery. Should she win in Nanning, Biles would be the first woman to win back-to-back World titles since Svetlana Khorkina (RUS) in 2001 and 2003. Biles is also a heavy medal favorite on Vault and Floor, and in 2013 became the first woman to qualify for all event finals at a World Championships since Aliya Mustafina did so in 2010. Even more impressive was that Biles finished no lower than fourth on any event, adding gold on Floor, silver on Vault and bronze on Balance Beam.
* US-Gymnastics made an interview with her after the podium training in Nanning...:

Challengers for the All-around podium include 2013 World runner-up Kyla Ross (USA) as well as 2013 European champion Mustafina (RUS), the reigning World champion on Balance Beam and the leader of a young and talented Russian team. Chinese veteran Yao Jinnan, third All-around at the 2011 World Championships and Romanian star Larisa Iordache are also expected to contend for multiple medals.
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Oxana Chusovitina ready to start again ...?
Six-time Olympian Oksana Chusovitina (Uzbekistan) hopes to recover from a recent foot injury in time to compete in the all-around at the upcoming world gymnastics championships in Nanning, China. Chusovitina had planned on competing in the all-around at last week's Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, but an untimely injury during podium training limited her to vaulting only. In Wednesday's vault final in Incheon, Chusovitina won the silver medal, her seventh Asian Games medal, behind eventual champion Hong Un Jong of North Korea, who finished ahead of Chusovitina at the 2008 Olympics.
To the Chinese Press she told: "I had a foot injury a few days ago during the podium training, and today when I was warming up, I felt my foot was still not ready for all-around. So I decided just to do vault. I hope my foot will recover and I can compete in the all-around at the world championships."
In Incheon, Chusovitina was coached by her longtime friend and former teammate, gymnastics legend Svetlana Boginskaya.