Olympic Gymnastics News

What do you get when you mix Olympic-level ice skaters with the Moscow State Circus? The unlikely answer is Snow White on Ice.

London Olympic organizers are working to reduce the travel time for athletes in the two sports whose venue for the 2012 Games is being changed to save money.

Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnson spent the day in Council Bluffs Sunday to speak at the Hy-Vee Whole Health Experience.

YOUNG people are making art out of a ring to celebrate the countdown to the 2012 Olympics .

Yang Le, a 6-year-old girl, practises on the balance beam in a gymnastics school of Xiantao, city of central China's Hubei Province, on Oct.

They gave him perfect 10s - then handed him the championship of the world. But they couldn't fool Tom Daley, Britain's teen diving sensation, into believing he is the finished article.

The Winter Olympics will have a bit of local flavor when the games open next year in Vancouver, Canada.

With nearly 1,000 days to go until the London Olympics, organizing chief Sebastian Coe says preparations are on track but there is no time to waste because the 2012 Games will be here in "the blink of an eyelid." Coe said London has met all its targets as it reaches the 1,000-day countdown on Saturday, another milestone in the city's seven-year ...

There were two noteworthy aspects to the United States Olympic Committee's Thursday announcement of the nine-member search and selection committee charged with finding a new USOC chief executive by the end of the year.

Nominees Dani Samuels and Cadel Evans talk with the Herald's Jacquelin Magnay at the launch of the awards this morning.

BASILDON Council has sold Markhams Chase Leisure Centre, and three other pieces of land, raising more than A 8million towards the towna s sporting village.

Steve Omischl from Kelowna, B.C., executes his gold medal jump in the men's finals of the Canada Post Freestyle Grand Prix, Jan.

The Americans are making a habit of this 1-2 thing. Bridget Sloan edged teammate Rebecca Bross for the all-around title at the world gymnastics championships last night in London, one year after Nastia Liukin beat Shawn Johnson for the Olympic gold medal in Beijing.

Chinese President Hu Jintao attends the opening ceremony of the 11th Chinese National Games in Jinan, east China's Shandong Province, Oct.

Double Olympic breaststroke champion Kosuke Kitajima will return to competitive swimming next month for the first time since the Beijing Olympics.

Stephanie Streeter, a former chairman of Banta Corp. in Menasha, is on her way off the U.S. Olympic Committee.

He and Hong lead Asian charge LONDON: Olympic champions He Kexin of China and North Korea's Hong Un-Jong made their push for gold at the world gymnastics championships here on Wednesday.

GYMNASTICS legend Nadia Comaneci has urged British star Beth Tweddle to keep going until the London Olympics after watching her crowned world champion on the floor at the weekend.

LONDON: Britain's Beth Tweddle raised the domed roof at the O2 Arena on Sunday after she tumbled to glory on the floor exercise, while Olympic champion Zou Kai and his team-mates showed China had lost none of the sparkle that helped them dominate the 2008 Beijing Games.

Alexander Shatilov won Israel's first-ever World Championship medal yesterday, finishing third in the men's floor exercise in London.