China named a 26 strong gymnastics Olympic Squad
'It's really hard to choose between them and we may not make the decision until the last moment,' Huang, Yubin told the Chinese Agency Xinhua.
The lineup includes all the 12 gymnasts who had competed last year's world championships in Anaheim, where China collected 5 gold medals to top the overall standings.
Huang said the results of the Olympic trial would not be the sole standard to decide the final lineup: 'You should take it all round, and one match doesn't mean all,' - he said.
That means Chinese leading character Li Xiaopeng has already secured his berth. The Olympic champion is recognized as one of the world's best gymnasts. He took three gold medals in last year's world championship and have two difficult maneuvers named afterhim.

Chinese lineup, Men:
- Li Xiaopeng, Huang Xu, Yang Wei, Xing Aowei, Teng Haibin, Xiao Qin, Feng Jing, Liang Fuliang, Dong Zhen, Lu Bin, Li Dezhi .

>> Women' lineup:
- Fan Ye, Li Ya, Zhang Nan, Zhang Yufei, Wang Tiantian, Kang Xin, Lin Li, Gu Zheng, Lin Xia, Zhou Zhuoru, Cheng Fei, Liu Juan, Yang Yun, Yang Yahong, Chen, Miaojie.

Women's All-Around
1. Wang Tiantian 37.675
2. Li Ya 37.125
3. Zhang Nan 37.000
3. Kang Xin 37.000

WOMEN's Finals:
Vault
1. Yang, Yahong 9.506
2. Wang, Tiantian, 9.425
3. Cheng, Fei 9.269
3. Deng, Shaojie, 9.269

Uneven Bars:
1. Li Ya, 9.650
2. Wang Tiantian, 9.450
3. Lin, Li, 9.413

Balance Beam
1. Cheng, Fei 9.513
2. Li Ya, 9.400
3. Kang Xin, 9.375

Floor Exercises:
1. Cheng, Fei 9.312
2. Wang Tiantian, 9.238
3. Lin, Li 9.038

From spring 2004 on also the Mongolian Gymnastics Federation can use the modern and FIG certificated vaulting table 'PEGASES ' in their national gymnastics center of the capital Ulan Bator.
It was a gift from the F.I.G. and the Dutch PEGASES producer 'Janssen-Fritsen' to all 74 participating nations at the 1999 World Championships in Tianjan (China).
Mongolia took part at this event with the individual gymnasts Myagmarjav ARIUNGOO and Adjya TSOLOMON and so they were entitled to get one table for free.
The condition for being chosen as official competition apparatus for the World Championships 2001 in Ghent was that all it could be used in all F.I.G member nations. However, the Mongolian Federation gave a sign in spring 2004 that the are not able to pay the transport costs, but the FIG helped and so the J&F Company now decided also to send the first PEGASES for free to Ulan Bator.

PEGASES in Canada...
...For quite a while already the modern vaulting table 'PEGASES' is being used in the daily training of elite gymnasts as well as young, talented gymnasts in all age groups all over the World and so also in Canada.
The Canadian TV station 'Discovery Channel' this week showed a film in their program 'Daily Planet' in which a story about the vaulting table 'PEGASES'was presented.

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NHK CUP 2004
Yoyogi Gymnasium, Tokyo, May 2 - 4-

R E S U L T S

>> Men's Results // >> Women's Results

Source: Japan Gymnastics Association

EU-Accesssion and 'GYMfamily
In the nice showroom of the 'Official supplier of the 25th European Championships' Janssen-Fritsen, J&F-director Jacques Janssen, UEG President Dimitrios Dimitropoulos and GYMmedia-Chef Eckhard Herholz welcomed the representatives of the national gymnastic federations of the new EC-members on the day of the accession to the European Community at the RAI congress centre in Amsterdam. They presented not only a gift, but also an invitation to a new form of cooperation in the era of communication...

>> ... full story

... all information of the All-around decision day of the 25th European Champs in Amsterdam you will find on the special event website on
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