The 18th edition of the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) takes place from 20 to 26 July in the North Macedonian capital Skopje. Since 1991, the European Olympic Committee (EOC) has been organising both the summer and winter editions for Europe's best young athletes in the same calendar year. Skopje is the main venue for ten of the 15 sports. Another venue is Kumanovo, 40 km away. Only the artistic gymnasts will be travelling much...
As confirmed by the Belgian Gymnastics Federation, Belgium's Olympic champion Nina Derwael has announced her retirement from competitive sport at the age of 25. Derwael is retiring at the peak of her career, with her two gold medals on the uneven bars and balance beam at last month's European Championships in Leipzig being her last competitive appearances. During her career, she won 11 medals at major championships, including the Olympic gold medal on the uneven bars at...
The German cities Bochum, Duisburg, Essen, Muelheim on the Ruhr, Hagen and Berlin are the host places for the FISU World University Games 2025. From 16 to 27 July 2025, around 8,500 student athletes and officials from over 150 countries will compete for medals in 18 sports in Germany.
This makes it one of the largest multi-sport events in the world in 2025. And there is hardly a better venue: these particularly sports-mad cities boast the densest...
Even in the post-Olympic year 2025, the four FIG World Challenge Cups in the second half of the year hardly differ from the World Cup series in the spring. As in the Olympic year, five Challenge Cups will now follow in this order in this World Cup year, all before the World Championships in Jakarta/INA:
(1) WCha Varna (BUL; 8-11 May 2025); (2) WCha Koper (May 15-18), (3) WCha Tashkent (UZB; June 18-21); (4) WCha -Paris (FRA;...