November
27, 2000
DTB
Cup - Stuttgart 2000 - Day 2
The
Russian Olympic Champion on vault and floor, Elena Zamolodtchikova, was
the star of the 18th DTB Cup in Stuttgart, the first event of the new "GREAT
FOUR Series". She won three of the four apparatuses (beam - 9.600 and vault
- 9.775). The European All around Champion Alexander Beresch won on Hgh
bar (9.775) and was the second on floor (9.675), pommel (9.750) and bars
(9.700) and was the most succesful athlete in men s competition. Winners
of other events are Igors Vihrovs (LAT) who won the floor exercise (9.700)
and Ivan Ivankov (BLR) who won the bars (9.750).
November
26, 2000
DTB
Cup - Stuttgart 2000 -Day 1
After
the first day of finals, Elena Zamolodchikova (RUS) proved to be the best
woman in the field, winning the event the won in the Olympics (floor -
9.600) and getting second for bars (9.700). Allana Slater (AUS) was hardly
inferior, taking first in bars (9.750) and second on floor (9.525). She
got the first Australian victory in the history of DTB Cup.The men's finals
saw a different winner in eachevent: Marius Urzica (ROM) won pommelhorse
(9.825), Szilveszter Csollany (HUN) won rings (9.750), Evgeny Sapronenko
(LAT) won vault (9.675).
November
26, 2000
Arkayev
Interview (only relevant parts included)
Asked
about Khorkina posing for PLayboy -
"I
treat this properly. Sveta is an adult and she has the right to answer
questions (that is, being asked to pose) herself. And besides, I do not
see anything strange in it. It has only added to her popularity and to
gymnastics as a whole. Now everyone has the possibility to see that we
have beautiful girls.
Asked
about the future stars and leaders of Russian gym (note: he doesn't say
Chepeleva )
"If
you will come to the palace of sports from July 16 until July 23 at the
championships of Russia you will see such talented and promising gymnasts
as Dmitri Drevin. At the European championships among juniors one month
ago he acted perfectly and deserved the recognition of the public and the
experts. He is only 18 years, old, but I do not exclude the possibility
that with a good result in the national championships he can win a ticket
to Sydney. The girls to make their way in elite of world gymnastics are
the forces of Anna Pavlova and Maria Zasipkina. they simply create miracles.
Spectators are simply delighted after their job on the podium. In a word,
with some reserve, there are a lot of athletes which prop up Khorkina and
Nemov."
November
25, 2000
"Rumour"
Someone
recently saw Charlie's Angels and told me that it was Khorkina herself
doing back handsprings in the white body suit (in the scene where Cameron
Diaz broke into the .... don't want to give anything away). She told me,
"Who else would be thin enough to stand in for Cameron Diaz - wearing all
white, no less?"
I've
not seen the movie yet but I will see it soon. Anyway there must be thousands
of tall, blonde dancers that can do a back handspring, so I doubt that
because the person in the movie is tall and blond it means that it's
Khorkina.
Someone else went to see the movie and told me that the person does bear
a resemblance to Khorkina.
November
25, 2000
DTB
Cup - Stuttgart 2000 - Qualification
Yelena
Zamolodochikova of Russia, 2000 Olympic gold medallist in vault and floor
exercise, returned to intense training immediately after the Olympics.
Her reward for doing so? She dominated the DTB Cup by qualifying first
in three of four apparatus - vault (9.712), bars (9.750), and floor exercise
(9.725) - and second behind Viktoria Karpenko (UKR) on balance beam (9.700).
Karpenko erred on bars (9.050) but qualified for the other three events
- vault (9.325), beam (9.725) and floor exercise (9.575).
But
a different gymnast was in the lead in each of the six events for the men's
competition.
Floor
Exercise: Igors Vihrovs (LAT) 9.725
Pommel
Horse: Marius Urzica (ROM) 9.775
Rings:
Szilveszter Csollany (HUN) 9.775
Men's
Vault: Alexei Bondarenko (RUS) 9.637
Parallel
Bars: Ivan Ivankov (BLR) 9.650
High
Bar: Alexander Beresch (UKR) 9.700
November
24, 2000
McIntosh
Retires
Trudy
McIntosh retires. She's not going to compete in any of the Grand Prix or
the World Cup final!
November
21, 2000
Resse
Gossip
Svetlana Khorkina, Elena Prodonova and Vanessa Atler all wore belly
rings! Guess that they all stopped at a piercing parlor during the tour!
All of the girls wearing tiny tops - Atler, Moceanu, Dantzcher - had to
adjust their tops in the middle, or end of their routines.
November
20, 2000
Russian
Duo Wins Swiss Cup
Fresh
off their all-around wins at the Arthur Gander Memorial, Russians Yelena
Zamolodchikova and Alexei Bondarenko paired to win the Swiss Cup, held
in Zurich this weekend. Russia topped the Ukrainian team of Viktoria Karpenko
and Alexander Beresch. Finishing third were Romanians Maria Olaru and Marian
Dragulescu.
The Swiss Cup, in recent years a Grand Prix tournament for event finals only, reverted to its previous format of mixed-pairs competition. Of the eleven teams who began the competition, eight moved on to the semi-finals and four of those made finals.
Results,
2000 Swiss Cup
1.
Zamolodchikova/Bondarenko (RUS) 76.913
(Zamolodchikova VT 9,713, UB 9,575, BB 9,50, FX 9,725; Total 38,513 /
Bondarenko PH 9,60, Rings 9,50, VT 9,70, HB 9,60; Total 38,40)
2.
Karpenko/Beresch (UKR) 75.175
3.
Olaru/Dragulescu (ROM) 75.025
4.
Lisa Brüggemann/Sergei Pfeifer (GER) 74.213
5.
Yekaterina Lobaznyuk/Dieter Rehm (RUS/SUI) 55.85
6.
Elisabeth Tweddle/Jordan Jovtchev (GBR/BUL) 55.80
7.
Tatiana Zharganova/Ivan Ivankov (BLR) 55.425
8.
Alexandra Balz/Roman Schweizer (SUI) 53.750
9.
Annik Salzmann/Victor Cano (SUI/ESP) 36.15
10.
Adrienn Nyeste/Zoltan Supola (HUN) 36.05
11.
Qianwei Luo/Xu Huang (CHN) 34.80
(Source:
International Gymnast)
November
18, 2000
"Rumour"
I
was told that Arkaev called the States and told Khorkina to get herself
in shape for the World Cup. I don't know about Produnova but my sources
say that she is supposedly injured.
November
17, 2000
RUSSIANS
TOP ARTHUR GANDER MEMORIAL
Russian
Olympians Yelena Zamolodchikova and Alexei Bondarenko won the 2000 Arthur
Gander Memorial yesterday in Chiasso, Switzerland.
Romanian Maria Olaru finished 2nd all-around ahead of German Lisa Brüggemann and won the beam title. Tatiana Zharganova (Belarus) finished behind Brüggerman and was first on bars. Zamolodchikova, the 2000 Olympic champion on vault and floor, won those events in Chiasso.
Bondarenko
topped a deep men's field, ahead of Ivan Ivankov (BLR), Jordan Jovtchev
(BUL), Alexander Beresch (UKR), and Marian Dragulescu (ROM). The event
finals were spread out among the gymnasts, with Bondarenko taking vault
and pommel horse, Jovtchev winning floor, Italian Andrea Coppollino winning
rings, Ivankov grabbing parallel bars and Beresch taking high bar.
(Source:
Intenational Gymnast)
November
16, 2000
RUSSIA
CELEBRATES NATIONAL GYMNASTICS DAY
Under
the motto "Gymnastics is Movement and Movement is Life," Russia held its
second annual "All-Russian Day of Gymnastics" on November 4th. Over 100,000
participants took part in mass competitions and displays of gymnastics
in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Chelyabinsk, Krasnoyarsk, and other cities across
Russia. In Moscow, competitors at a competition at the Olimpiskii Arena
received their awards from Olympic gold medalist and hometown hero Yelena
Zamoldochikova. On hand were gymnastics coaches and officials ready to
give information to anyone expressing an interest in the sport. Other Russian
Olympic champions in attendance at Olimpiskii included Larisa Latynina,
Mikhail Voronin, and Olga Karasyova.
Russian gymnastics czar Leonid Arkayev told news agency ITAR-TASS that the idea of a national holiday just for gymnastics took awhile to come to fruition. With pride he noted the status of his gymnasts as worldwide leaders in the sport, but expressed disappointment that its popularity in Russia was not proportionate with its success. He hoped the celebration would encourage more Russians, specifically children and teenagers, to take up an interest in gymnastics and all exercise for the sake of their health.
Arkayev
once again denied persistant rumors that he was headed abroad to coach
in Greece. "It's absolute hogwash," he said. "I did not receive any invitation
and I am not preparing to go anywhere."
(Source:
International Gymnast)
November
15, 2000
These
gymnasts will be at Swiss-Cup Zurich (November 19th):-
Belarus:
Ivan Ivankov / Tatyana Jarganova
China:
Huang Xu / Luo Qianwei
Spain/Swizterland:
Victor Cano / Alexandra Balz (not confirmed)
Spain/Ukraine:
Gervasio Deferr / Olga Roshupkina (not confirmed)
Spain:
Gervasio Deferr / Esther Moya
Germany:
Sergej Pfeifer / Katja Abel
Hungary:
Zoltan Supola / Adrienn Nyeste
Romania:
Marian Dragulescu / Maria Olaru
Russia:
Alexey Bondarenko / Elena Zamolodschikova
Ukraine:
Alexander Beresch / Victoria Karpenko
Switzerland:
Andreas Schweizer / Annik Salzmann
Switzerland/Russia:
Dieter Rehm / Ekaterina Lobazniuk
Italy:
Andrea Coppolina (not confirmed) / Alice Capitani (not confirmed)
November
13, 2000
The
European series start with the 5th Internationals of Vorarlberg, 1st
day
(Dornbirn/AUS) and double successes of Zamolodtchikova and Bondarenko (scored
a "10.0" in vault !) and in Nagoya was held the Chunichi Cup in Japan,
with a triple success of the Japanese men and a all around
victory
of Simona Amanar (38.350), on second came her teammate Andreea Raducan
(38.337) and Victoria Karpenko (38.162) who got third was also double winner
on final day......
Chunichi
Cup
Vault:
1) Amanar (9.556), 2) Karpenko (9.474) 3)Manabe (9.437)
UB:
1) Karpenko (9.700), 2) Roschupkina (9.687), 3) Kolesnikova (9.612)
BB:
1) Karpenko (9.775), 2) Raducan (9.725), 3) Roschupkina (9.637)
FX:
1) Raducan (9.637), 2)Amanar (9.587), 3)Manabe (9.512)
November
7, 2000
WORLD
CUP COMPETITORS ANNOUNCED
Expected
competitors for the 2000 World Cup, to be held next month in Glasgow, Great
Britain, have been announced by the organizing committee (see roster below
for names). Qualified Russian stars Alexei Nemov, Svetlana Khorkina and
Yelena Produnova, currently touring in the US, are not expected to attend.
(Nemov's name has already been officially withdrawn, the others are still
listed.)
Also
questionable is Olympic champ Simona Amanar (Romania), who plans to retire,
but hasn't yet decided when she'll call it quits. (She has gone back
and
forth on the subject, originally saying she'd compete in the Cup, then
saying she wanted to stop immediately.
Qualification for the Cup finals, which will feature artistic and rhythmic gymnasts, is based on a series of international events, including the '99 worlds and 2000 Olympic Games. A maximum of two gymnasts per country can qualify on each event.
For
more info on the 2000 World Cup, visit the official web site:
www.baga.co.uk/Events/Wcup_2000/Glas2000.htm.
MEN ...
Floor: Gervasio Deferr (Spain), Marius Dragulescu (Romania), Jordan Jovtchev (Bulgaria), Yevgeny Podgorny (Russia), Vitaly Rudnitsky (Belarus), Kyle Shewfelt (Canada), Igor Vihrov (Latvia) and Xing Aowei (China).
Pommels: Runar Alexandersson (Iceland), Alexander Beresch (Ukraine), Huang Xu (China), Ivan Ivankov (Belarus), Nikolai Kryukov (Russia), Zoltan Supola (Hungary), Marius Urzica (Romania) and Xing.
Rings: Alexei Bondarenko (Russia), Andrea Coppolino (Italy), Szilvester Csollany (Hungary), Ivankov, Jovtchev, Dimosthenis Tambakos (Greece), Marius Toba (Germany) and Yang Wei (China).
Vault: Leszek Blanik (Poland), Bondarenko, Deferr, Dragulescu, Sergei Fedorchenko (Kazakhstan), Xiao Junfeng (China), Valery Pereshkura (Ukraine) and Yevgeny Sapronenko (Latvia).
P-Bars: Bondarenko, Alexei Dmitrienko (Kazakhstan), Huang, Ivankov, Lee Joo-Hyung (Korea), Aljaz Pegan (Slovenia) Pereshkura, Mitja Petkovsek (Slovenia).
High Bar: Beresch, Cristian Ivanov (Bulgaria), Ivankov, Alexander Jeltkov (Canada), Pegan, Supola, Jani Tanskanen (Finland) and Yang.
WOMEN...
Vault: Amanar, Irina Yevdokimova (Kazakhstan), Jana Komrskova (Czech Republic), Denisse Lopez (Mexico), Trudy McIntosh (Australia), Produnova, Andreea Raducan (Romania), Yelena Zamolodchikova (Russia).
Bars: Amanar, Huang Mandan (China), Viktoria Karpenko (Ukraine), Svetlana Khorkina (Russia), Ling Jie (China), Produnova, Raducan and Allana Slater (Australia).
Beam: Dong Fangxiao (China), Karpenko, Khorkina, Ling, McIntosh, Produnova, Raducan and Olga Roschupkina (Ukraine).
Floor:
Amanar, Dong, Karpenko, Khorkina,
Produnova, Raducan, Slater and Tatiana Yarosh (Ukraine).
(Source:
International Gymnast)
01
Nov 2000
RADUCAN
SUES IOC
Dethroned
Olympic gold medalist Andreea Raducan announced yesterday that she would
sue the International Olympic Committee in an effort to clear her name.
"I have decided to start legal proceedings because I am innocent,"
Raducan
said in an official statement, released Tuesday.
"I
need an official decision that recognizes that. I don't want [the title
reinstated]. The only thing I want is for my name to be dropped from the
black list of doping."
Raducan
lost the all-around gold, but retained team and vault medals, after testing
positive for pseudoephidrene, an IOC banned substance found in many over-the-counter
cold pills. While still in Sydney, Raducan appealed to the Court of Arbitration
of Sport, which upheld the IOC penalty even though IOC officials admitted
that Raducan received "no competitive benefit" from the pseudoephidrene
in her system.
Teammate
Simona Amanar, who was crowned Olympic champ after Raducan's title was
rescinded, physically returned the medal to Raducan last month. Amanar
said that the gold meant "nothing to her" and argued that it rightfully
belonged to Raducan, who also received a specially-made "replacement gold"
from a jeweler which was inscribed with the sentiment, "Andreea is the
everlasting Olympic champion in our hearts."
The
Romanian Olympic Committee (COR) has also remained steadfast in their support
of Raducan, making sure she received all the prize money she would have
been eligable for as the all-around champ, as well as refusing to
apply
a COR rule that says all athletes found doping must be "banned for life"
from future competitions.
(Source:
Intenational Gymnast)
01
Nov 2000
Pavlova
wins in Belgium
Junior
European bars champ Anna Pavlova (Russia) led a strong field at the Top
Gym junior international in Charleroi, Belgium. US sensation Carly
Patterson,
13, finished a close second, ahead of European junior beam
medalist
Irina Yarotska of Ukraine. All three future stars notched impressive scores
of 37+. Fourth went to Argentine up-and-comer Celeste Carnevale.
(Source:
Intenational Gymnast)
