Olympic Rhythmic Gymnastics News

A TALENTED Sutton athlete will represent England and Bishop Walsh at the World School Games in Qatar this week.

The 2012 Olympics will not be overshadowed by the grandness of last year's Beijing event, London Games chief Sebastian Coe said yesterday.

In the run-up to the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles, several female runners launched a court challenge against Olympic officials in the United States and abroad, claiming the decision not to include women's 5,000- and 10,000-metre events amounted to illegal discrimination.

FIVE hundred children will be leaping into action next week at a four-day gymnastics and trampolining festival.

Wembley Arena has been chosen to be the venue for badminton and rhythmic gymnastics at the London 2012 Olympics.

Eds: APNewsNow. Moving on financial and sports services. LONDON The IOC says two sports have agreed in principle to a venue change for the 2012 London Olympics.

London 2012 organisers were under pressure to resolve an ongoing row over its Olympic venues.

Rhythmic gymnasts bring home medals from Pan Am championships. The group team from the Kalev Rhythmic Gymnastics club in North York competed in the Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships recently.

Debi Anderson, 31, is a gold-medal winner and has been a Special Olympics athlete for more than a decade.

In Camille Martens' Oz, a lion leaps Cirque-like into the air, winged monkeys lift their legs above their heads, and black leotard-clad bodies contort into the shape of a spider.

Vancouver Olympic organizers have no power to include women's ski jumping in the 2010 Olympics, says British Columbia's highest court.

The Olympic Torch Relay will be making its way through Burnaby on Feb. 11, but it wona t be stopping for long.

Britain will take "pre-emptive action" to stop sex traffickers from targeting the 2012 London Games.

Alexandra Orlando has performed for Canada in Rhythmic Gymnastics in international competitions including the Olympics, the Commonwealth Games and the PanAmerican Games.

CHASING DREAMS: Christchurch gymnast Mereana Rademakers, along with Kimberley Robson, will head to Europe soon to chase Commonwealth Games selection.

Rhythmic gymnast Victoria Podollan of Vernon will represent Canada in the Junior Pan Am Games in Havana, Cuba Nov.

Fireworks lit up parts of the capital to mark 1,000 days before the 2012 London Olympics begin.

Saturday marks 1,000 days until the London 2012 Olympic Games, and officials promise the event is on track and on budget.

Encouraged by the improving economy in the United States, the International Olympic Committee plans to begin negotiations on U.S. broadcast rights for the 2014 and 2016 Games next year.

With 1,000 days to go until the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics, London's organising team is confident it is on track.