Brazilian Gymnast Lais Souza fighting for life after ski accident

The former Brazilian top artistic gymnast, two-times Olympian (2004, 2008) and world cup winner Lais SOUZA, who was due to compete in the freestyle skiing competition at the Sochi Olympics is fighting now for her life after hitting a tree during a recreational skiing session in Utah. Lais Souza (25), is unable to move her arms or legs and can't breathe on her own following the accident which occurred on Monday.
The young Brazilian has been skiing for about six months. Before she participated as gymnast in the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics in Athens and Beijing.

"She remains in critical condition, still using a breathing machine and unable to talk".

Lets pray for her immediate recovery.

picture from Lais Souza's lucky days: 2005 as world cup winner in Cottbus (GER), in front of Russia's Anna Pavlova (left) and the Chines Wang.

The EUROPEAN GYM FESTIVAL COUNCIL (EGF-C)

The European GYM Festival Council  is an organization bringing together the GYM Festival Organisations from across Europe and the World considering the importance of gymnastics diversity as a guarantee of sustainable intercultural development and supporting the establishment of European Gym Festivals.

To coordinate and to open the European Gym Festivals program "E G F" promotes the international Calendar and the international particularities of the events as well the friendship between the countries.
EGF will be supported by the International Sports and Cultural Association (ISCA)

** E G F - FESTIVALS 2014 are:
(1) ► Freiburg /Breisgau 2014 (Swabian Gymnastics Federation, GER)
→ 2014, May 28 - Jun 01
(last: Turnfest Heilbronn 2012 Gym Festival 2011)
(2) ► 12. Festival del Sole 2014 (Jun 29 - Jul 05)
→ Festival del Sole 2012, (ITA)
(-) ► International Summer Festival (BUL) ... a potential new EGF member !
→ 2014, Jul 07 - Jul 13
(3) ► Festival BLUME Gran Canaria (ESP)
→ 2014, Nov 21 - 29

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2014 American Cup

The American Gymnastics Federation released the list of participants of the 2014 American Cup Invitations to Participate in this competition, as well as in other World Cups with all-around competition, are based on the perfisormance and results of the previous year's World . Following is the list: 

Men Artistic Gymnastics

Andrey Likhovitskiy
Sergio Sasaki Junior
Fabian Hambuechen
Daniel Purvis
Max Whitlock
Shogo Nonomura
Fabian Gonzalez
Sam Mikulak
John Orozco

Women Artistic Gymnastics

Victoria Moors
Carlotta Ferlito
Vanessa Ferrari
Larisa Iordache Andrea
Popa Roxana Nedelcu
Giulia Steingruber
Simone Biles
Kyla Ross Just to remember:. there are athletes who refuse the invitation and the list can be changed up to the competition . For this They are called the best gymnasts in order of placement in the World Aliya Mustafina and Kohei Uchimura no longer included in this 1st list.

Photo: Segio Sasaki Junior - Brazil

XX Commonwealth Games, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

199 Days >Common Wealth Games 2014


The Commonwealth Games, an international, multi-sport event of athletes from the Commonwealth Nations. Currently 54 members of the Commonwealth of Nations and 71 teams participate in the Games. The 20th Commonwealth Games in 2014 will be held in Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland and the Games will run over 11 days of competition from 24 July to 3 August 2014.

Are you ready for the Games? See you there.

Ferdinand Danis celebrates his 85th Birthday ...( 1.1.2014 )

One of the most successful gymnasts in the former Czechoslovakia, Ferdinand Daniš, celebrating since 1929 always on the first day of every year his birthday: today his 85th! At that time, born in the small Slovak village Opatova he was later in 1952 to three times in the Olympic squads of CSR, later CSSR and was a participant at the World Championships in Rome in 1954, where his team ranked 5th and four years later in Moscow after the Soviet Union and Japan won the bronze medal.

FerdinanAt the III. Men's European Championships 1959 in Copenhagen, Ferdinand Denis scratched just behind the German bronze medalist Philipp Fürst (3) on fourth on all-around medal, but was behind all-around champion Yuri Titov Vice-European Champion on the parallel bars.
In the year of his third Olympics (Rome 1960) he won, for example, the friendly meet against the East German (GDR) team both in the team competition, as well as in the individual all-around. In his home country Danis was a former multiple Czechoslovak champion not only a recognized personality, but certain as very successfull coach since the mid-sixties of the last century, first at Dukla Prague (1965 - '74), thereafter the ASVS Dukla Banska Bystrica (1974 - '89).
Today he now celebrate in his adopted hometown Prague his 85th birthdayd Daniš was an excellent all-rounder, what his Olympic rankings (13./ 13./ 15) and his 15th placeat the world championship in Moscow in 1958.