BLUME Gran Canaria 2003 is opend!

Newspaper with Gymnastics on top!

WEdnesday evening the 43rd BLUME Gran Canaria Festival was opened with a big ceremony in Las Palmas.
More than 750 participants from 7 of the 12 nations took part and celebratated a colorful show. So the biggest Canarian newspaper 'La Provincia' reported on the first site with a big photo of the gymnasts of the Canarian island Lanzarote.
Also the German 'ambassadors' of the coming 'International German Gymnastics Festival Berlin 2005', the COSMIC ARTISTS took part with a great air track show...

Berlin's 'CosmicArtists' sports ambassadors of the 'INTERNATIONALES DEUTSCHEN TURNFESTES 2005'

Die Cosmics verstauen ihr Riesengepäck am Flughafen...

A big performance of the CosmicArtists from Berlin
The opening ceremony in Las Palmas was already going on, so the German show group 'CosmicArtists' arrived at the airport of the Canarian capital Las Palmas.
Members of CosmicArtists are former Olympians and national champions like Peter Nikiferow, Katrin Kewitz and Martin Lahmer and more former gymnasts from the clubs SC Berlin and Berliner TSC.
The Organizing Committee of the coming 'Internationl German Gymnastics Festival 2005' in Berlin sponsored this journey, to give special invitations to the participants of the biggest Spanish gymnastics festival with participants from 12 natins.

>> Opening Ceremony

>> On the website of Blume Gran Canaria you will find photos and a report about the Berlin's CosmicArtists-Show.

Gran Canaria in tese days is the 'WORLD ISLAND of GYMNASTCS';
so many performances held in different cities and villages (- photo, right), so the members of the big Czech delegetion of the SOKOL Federation in the village El Tablero.....

<< Show in El Tablero

>> ... alle Festival-Informationen

Aus Gran Canaria für GYMmedia: E.Herholz

>> ... more information on the website www.blume-grancanaria.org

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