Further personnel changes at the national gymnastics training centre in Stuttgart:
The German Gymnastics Federation (DTB) and the American coach Aimee Boorman have agreed to end their working relationship. Boorman had been working as a national training centre coach at the Kunst-Turn-Forum since March last year. The 52-year-old former coach of Simone Biles was appointed to the position in Stuttgart at very short notice in spring 2025. At the time, she took up her post under difficult conditions at...

Italy's 1964 Olympic gymnastics champion Franco MENICHELLI, whose unique and elegant style heralded a new era in floor gymnastics, passed away on 28 January at the age of 84! Born on 3 August 1941 in Rome, he later decided not to follow in the footsteps of his older brother Giampaolo and take up football: even as a boy, he developed a special love for running on his hands and therefore turned his attention to apparatus gymnastics...