Spain’s longtimes artistic gymnastics coach, Jesus Carballo Garcia, has been suspended following allegations from a former gymnast over “bad treatment” when she was under his guidance during the 1980s.

The decision was taken after an investigation carried out by the Superior Council of Sports (CSD), ruled that Garcia would be refused entry to the team’s training centre after an unnamed gymnast went to the Spanish authorities with her complaints.
“The CSD have taken the decision to refuse Jesus Carballo access to the the team’s training centre after learning of the complaints against him from a former gymnast over bad treatment,” a CSD spokesman said. “The case has been handed to the police and we must now wait for the conclusions,”  wrote AFP.

From March 21 to 24, the national and international stars of gymnastics will meet at the 37th Edition of the traditional "Tournament of Masters®" in the Lausitz-Arena of Cottbus (GER).
It is the first of the following yet another four Challenge Cups until September, which is about the individual performances of all Olympic apparatus.
The record-breaking number of registrations of 158 mal and 98 female gymnasts from 47 countries testifies to the great response of this event and shows the international significance of the Challenge Cup.
Included are the first class and top-athletes from the U.S.A., Japan, China and Russia. The German host started with some very interest new faces in the new Olympic cyclus ...
* TODAY:  Final day 1 in Cottbus


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Baku (AZE), 23rd January - Mehriban Aliyeva, the wife of the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, who is also president of the NOC, has been appointed Chair of the Baku 2015 Organising Committee, the organisers of the inaugural "EUROPEAN GAMES", scheduled in two years time.
The "2015 Baku European Games" were approved by the EOC General Assembly last 8th December in Rome, and will take place in early summer in 2015, when 7,000 athletes will come together to compete in 20 sports.

A total of 13 sports have already been confirmed for the Games, which are expected to take place in June:
These are archery, badminton, boxing, canoeing, fencing, handball, judo, rugby sevens, shooting, taekwondo, table tennis, triathlon and volleyball, but now also gymnastics:

* f i g - news --: President of the Qatar Gymnastics Federation (QGF), Ali Achmad AL-HITMI, has been re-elected for another four-year term by delegates attending the General Assembly in the Qatari capital of Doha, December 25, 2012. President Al-Hitmi is a former FIG Council Member (2009 – 2012), and as of January 1, 2013 a Member of the FIG Executive Committee, following his election at the recent FIG Congress in Cancun (MEX), October 2012. The election of the QGF President to the FIG Executive Board reinforces Asian Union presence among the authorities of the international Federation; the Union is, incidentally, led by Mr. Abdulrahman Al-Shatri, also of Qatari origin. In his electoral speech, President Al-Hitmi declared his commitment to the development of gymnastics within his national federation, as well as locally and internationally.

SPIETH Gymnastics is proud to announce a new sponsoring partnership with the German top-gymnast Marcel Nguyen.
The London 2012 double silver medalist is looking forward to the new partnership and stated:
“I have been training and competing on SPIETH apparatuses worldwide since the beginning of my gymnastics career, I am very happy to be partner of SPIETH!”

SPIETH sales manager Juergen Garziella said: 
 "We know and appreciate Marcel Nguyen for many years all the more we are pleased that this likeable and authentic gymnast has an international breakthrough and now enjoys a high media interest -. SPIETH for an ideal partner.
We are looking forward to working together and wish Marcel Nguyen continued. Much success in sport and health".

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Spanish Olympic gymnast Andreu Vivo died of a heart attack in the Catalonian district of Collbaix early Sunday morning (December 30) while he was mountain climbing, the Catalonian Gymnastics Federation confirmed.
Vivo, 34, who competed in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, began to feel ill after climbing the Collbaix peak with a friend and collapsed soon after beginning the descent.
When emergency management personnel arrived at the scene they were unable to revive him, according to the daily Regio 7.
The funeral for the Catalan gymnast will be held next Thursday, January 3, at 10:00 a.m. in his hometown of Manresa at the Church of Christ the King.

Japanese gymnast and superstar Kohei Uchimura, who added an Olympic gold medal in the men's all-around competition to his trophy case this summer in London, announced on that he and his wife are expecting their first child.

Uchimura, who has won three consecutive World Championship all-around gold medals, issued the news through his corporate sponsor, Konami.

He was married in November 2012.
"I am able to inform you that we are expecting our first child next spring and that I will be spending quality time looking after my wife," the statement said to the Japanese media.

With great dismay the German and international gymnastics family has heard from the death of the Olympic Champion from Munich 1972 (vault), the 2-times high bar European Champion and 34-times German national champion Klaus KÖSTE has died in his home town Jesewitz in the north of Leipzig.

It was a suprising death due to heart failure only two months before his 70th birthday.
After heart surgery two times in the past he nonetheless represented a person who was fighting and not giving up and he managed to get back into very god shape.

He himself and also his family were happy that he even could get back to compete in seniors' gymnastics events.

After the death of Walther Steffens (2006),  Klaus Köste has beeen Germany's oldest Olympic Champion.

His father Gerhard has been a good gymnast himself. Mother Erna was a coach. In their hometown Frankfurt/Oder they built their son Klaus a real gymnastics garden in their own market garden facing the river Oder. Their Klaus could improve his gymnastics skills from the beginning on.

When he improved further, he continued to train in Leipzig with the coach Jochen Nonnast at the club "Deutschen Hochschule für Körperkultur" (DHfK). Here he started to become a world-class gymnast.

Klaus Köste took part in three Olympic Games, won gold on vault (1972) and three times bronze with the team (1964, 1968, 1972).
He won two bronze medals at World Championships: 1970 in Ljubljana with the team and on high-bar.

At his two European Championships 1971 and 1973 he won two titels on high-bar, got third in the all-around and won overall 6 medals.
"For me, Klaus Köster not only was a good athlete, he also had a straight and honest character", mentioned the chief editor of the German gymnastics magazine LEON*, Andreas Götze, who himself received congratulations from Klaus Köste when he became national champion of the GDR in 1972 in Bad Liebenwerda ahead of Joachim Rühle.
"It was an honour for me, then 18 years old, to receive the congratulations of the 10 years older world star. I will never forget it!"

A bit more than years later he, then 31 years old, unfortunately had to stop competing at the World Championships 1974 in Varna due to an injury of the achilles tendon after the double somersault on floor. He then became head coach of the women's team in  Leipzig and following that worked at the university in Leipzig, where he himself had once studied.

He was married to Sabine, a physical education teacher and also their three children were close to gymnastics, Matthias, Michael and Tanja. Daughter Tanja was a member of the last GDR-team at the World Championships 1989 in Stuttgart.

... international CONDOLENCES:
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* David Pittaway (GBR):

* I had the priviledge to meet Klaus Köste right after Germany´s reunification. I was one of the three British trampoline gymnasts who together with Stewart Matthews and Paul Luxon and our 6 World Championship titles in trampoline participated in many shows together with Klaus and his group.
Klaus and his wife also came to our wedding in Leipzig. His death leaves a gap which will be difficult to fill. In addition to being a great athlete he also had a great personality. We will miss him a lot.
* David PITTAWAY, Trampolin World Champion, Great Britain
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After New York (American Cup) in March and last weekend in Stuttgart (DTB Cup) now followed on the second weekend in December, the third and last-around-the FIG World Cup with A-status, for which the best possible more fighters in the world are desired priority.
in the brand new Emirate Arena of Glasgow Germany's Marcel NGUYEN won his second A-world cup and scored 90,098 points, in front of Kazuhito TANAKA from Japan (89,998) followed by local hero Daniel PURVIS (89,864), who was leading yet before the last rotation on high bar!
On women's side Eliszbeth PRICE (USA) won after Stuttgart last weekend now her second world cup event (59,165) followed by the two German girls Elisabeth SEITZ (54,799) and Kim BUI (54,732).
Price and Nguyen are also the best athletes in the final ranking list of 2012 world cup winners.

* WOMEN's ALL-AROUND
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1. PRICE Elizabeth (USA) 59.165
2. SEITZ Elisabeth (GER) 54.799
3. BUI Kim (GER) 54.732

4. FERRARI Vanessa (ITA) 54.432
5. TUNNEY Rebecca (GBR) 54.431
6. RIPPIN Niamh (GBR) 53.099
7. INOUE Wakana (JPN) 52.765
8. HOFLAND Kaitlyn (CAN) 52.099
     >> Detailed Results

With a substantial increase on the final day of the 30th DTB Cup the Russian women's team won the final in the team competition in Stuttgart.

With 109.450 points, they referred the Japanese team, finished on second place(108.700).

Third were the first team German I (105.900), followed by the second team of host Germany( 98,600).

Despite an injury by Anna Radionva especially the Russian star Aliya Mustafina convinced the team of winners ...

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