OFFICAL NEWS
Summary of the decisions taken by the Executive Committee in Zurich
(SUI), February 5 - 8, 2004.
- The new Judges Rules
have been accepted;
- The FIG accepted the WADA
Anti-doping Code;
- The new FIG Media
Rules have been approved and will come into effect immediately;
- The Executive Committee
has adopted electronic voting; it will apply as of the next General
Assembly in Antalya (TUR), October 21 - 23, 2004;
- The 2007 Artistic World
Championships will take place in Stuttgart (GER) September 3 – 9;
- The Algerian Federation
signed a contract for organisation of the Trampoline World Cup Final,
December 2, 2004, in Algiers;
- The BBC has agreed to
cover the Artistic World Cup event in Glasgow, October 2004, and
the Artistic World Cup Final in Birmingham (GBR), December 11-12,
2004;
- The 2007 Trampoline World
Championships will take place in Quebec City (CAN) November 2 – 4;
- A contract with the 2005
Artistic World Championships Organising Committee in Melbourne
(AUS) has been signed. Dates: November 15 – 27;
- The Federation of Liechtenstein
proposed itself for organisation of the 2005 FIG Council;
- Affiliation to the FIG:
The Executive Committee has acknowledged candidacies from the
Federations of the Bahamas, Botswana, the Cook Islands and Congo
Brazzaville. The General Assembly will take its final decisions in
October;
- FIG Authorities propose
maintaining the existing membership fees and taxes for events for
the period of 2005 – 2008;
- The CAS will soon
summon those involved in the doping case of the Spanish gymnast, Gervasio
Deferr. In regards to the case involving Bulgarian gymnast Simona
Peycheva, the FIG Disciplinary Commission will call her to a first
audience in mid March 2004;
- All antidoping controls carried out at
the World Cup in Glasgow, October 2003, came up negative.
GENERAL
INFORMATION
A young, 15-year-old American
trampolinist died as a result of injuries from a bad fall at a Junior’s
Competition in Knoxville (USA). The entire international gymnastics community
is in shock and offers its sincere condolences to the young gymnast’s family
and friends.
Hungarian Agnès Keleti, five
times Olympic champion at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki and 1956 Olympic
Games in Melbourne, received the Trophy of Merit form the Hungarian NOC.
Sad day for USA Gymnastics as the sport lost one of its most revered
officials. Marilyn Cross, 62, died of cancer that she had been battling
since early 1993. She received her FIG Brevet in 1979 and was well known
internationally for judging at major competitions. She was able to get to the
crux of any matter, make logical, equitable and sometimes difficult decisions
and then express them in her own inimitable style. Her family, her friends, her
students in over 30 years of teaching and the myriad of people in her rich and
varied life all cherished her “seal of approval”.
Elections were held at the SEAGCON
(South East Asian Gymnastics Confederation) December 7, 2003 at the General Assembly in Hanoi (VIE): Mr
Noel Buenaventura (PHI), President; Ms Ng Soh Lan (SIN), Dr Vichai
Vanadurongwan (THA) and Mr H Zulkifli Nurdin (INA), vice-Presidents; Mr N
Shanmugarajah (MAS), Secretary General. Principal
decisions: The next South East Asian Games will be held in the Philippines
in 2005. The 2005 Sea Games, set for Manila, will include events in ART, RG and
AER. Rhythmics groups have not been included. Members request that the FIG
organise ART competitions for Juniors without delay, based on the FIG Age
Groups Programme. For the first time in history and because of its gymnast NNG
Shu Wai, SEAGCON member Malaysia will participate in the Olympic Games. Laos
(LAO) has been admitted to the SEAGCON and is invited to request FIG
affiliation.
The FIG and UEG have
harmonised their “Media” Rules. In
the future and to simplify things for journalists, provisions governing
accreditation and work in the venue have been made to conform to common general
principals, valid for both European Championships and World Championships.
Conformity to these principals will extend equally to the FIG Unions.
2003 – 2004 World Cup Finals
for Olympic Disciplines!
They’re set for Birmingham (GBR),
the City ready to welcome Men’s and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics, December 11 –
12. Rhythmic will be held in Moscow,
November 26 – 28, 2004, at the Druzhba Sports Komplex. The next qualifying rounds
will be in Baku (AZE), Duisburg (GER), Varna (BUL) and Nizhy Novgorod (RUS). As
for Trampolinists and other Tumblers, they’ll meet on African soil (a first!)
December 2 in Algiers (ALG).
The 5th World Conference on Sport and Environment took place in
Turin, December 2003, as an informational conference aimed at developing a “Partnership for lasting development”. Professor Bruno Grandi,
FIG President and IOC Member, and Ivan Weber, Executive Committee Member, represented
the FIG.
July 17, 2004 will
commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of Anton Pavlovitch Tchekhov. So what?
Well, this inspiring Russian author is also the founder of the Russian
Gymnastics Federation. His talent as a writer is desperately lacking in the
editing of the FIG Code of Points!
IN SHORT
We are sad to announce the sudden death of Mag. Franz Fetti (age 57),
President of the Austrian Gymnastics Federation. The FIG Flash offers its most
heartfelt condolences to his wife, family and friends.
A samurai in
business! Former fencing champion Michele
Maffei has just been named Secretary General of the Italian Gymnastics
Federation. Her experience in competition and her wide-knowledge of sports
management are precious to the Peninsula’s gymnasts.
Valereis Geldenhuis, the President of the
Namibian Gymnastics Federation was recently awarded with the Namibian National
Sports Award for Sports Administrator of the year at the end of
2003. This is given to only one person in all sports in Namibia by the Namibian
National Olympic Committee, the Namibian National Sports Council and the
Namibian Sports Commission. Our congratulations!
Singapore (SIN) has
a new Gymnastics Association duly recognised by its National Olympic Committee:
Singapore Gymnastics, directed by Ms
Carmee Lim. The Association practises all FIG disciplines.
In response to the
question of which was the national sports event of the year, the Brazilian
daily A Folha (12/27/03) answers Anaheim, remember the gold medal of Daiane dos Santos, with 67% of its
readers. Gymnastics beats football in the land of Rivaldo! Gooooooooooooooal!
Istvan Karacsony (HUN), Member of the Men’s
Technical Committee has been re-elected as President of Artistic Gymnastics at
the FISU.
ELECTIONS
·
UEG:
Dimitrios Dimitropoulos (GRE) President; Walter NYFFELER
(SUI), Atilla OERSEL (TUR), Georges GUELZEC (FRA), vice Presidents ;
·
SIN : Mrs Carmee Lim, President ;
·
POR: Mr
Manuel Boa de Jesus, President.