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Trampoline World Championships: Japan claim double gold in synchro
It wasn’t just the lights that dazzled the Japanese crowd at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre in Tokyo, their trampolinists did too by winning both the men’s and women’s synchronised trampoline events. Leading after the qualifying round, Yumi Takagi and her partner Ayano Kishi showed that they were in perfect harmony to
Trampoline World Championships 2019: Great Britain, Belarus and Japan teams victorious in Tokyo
Trampoline World Championships 2019: Hancharou and Liu Lingling lead the way in first day of qualifications
The 34th World Championships began at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre in Tokyo, Japan with the qualifications of individual trampoline, double mini-trampoline and women's tumbling. At stake for the 336 gymnasts from 37 nations are places at the 2020 Olympics and the 2021 World Games. The Championships, which also serves as a Tokyo
Munich to host 2022 multi-sport European Championships
Munich has been awarded the 2022 edition of the multi-sport European Championships. This sees the event returns to Germany after Berlin hosted the athletics portion of the inaugural event in 2018, though most other sports were held in the Scottish city of Glasgow. Athletics, cycling, golf, gymnastics, rowing and triathlon are all
Tokyo unveils 2020 Olympic gymnastics venue inspired by Japanese architecture
A custom-built $188 million gymnastics venue inspired by traditional Japanese building techniques and using wood from around the country was unveiled by organisers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The futuristic-looking Ariake Gymnastics Centre in central Tokyo uses 2,300 cubic metres of wood and is intended to hark back to methods that
Rest in Peace, Tamara
The international trampoline community has lost one of their own. Decade long Canadian National Trampoline Team member, Tamara O'Brien, lost her battle with cancer this week. She was diagnosed shortly after winning the silver medal at the 2017 World Games in Wroclaw, Poland in the Women's Double Mini-tramp event. She
Simone Biles set to be face of 2020 Olympics after record world medal haul
Simone Biles sets all-time medal record at Stuttgart world championships
There is surely nothing left that could be surprising about US gymnast Simone Biles. She has dominates the world of women's artistic gymnastics; is an open book when she has something to say, and she collects medals like many others her age collect shoes. The one thing that Biles doesn't do, however,
