Lais Souza, paralyzed Olympic gymnast, eyes Rio torch relay

Lais Souza, a two-time Brazil Olympic gymnast paralyzed in a skiing accident on Jan. 27, 2014, said she will take part in the Rio Olympic torch relay and hopes to attend the Games in August.

She has said she dreams of walking again and has a tattoo of a person in a wheelchair gradually standing up.

Souza said she will take part in the Olympic torch relay in São Paulo later this year and hopes to attend the Rio gymnastics competition and maybe the Opening Ceremony in August, according to Universo Online, but does not have tickets or an invitation.

We pray she can walk again.

Gymnastics 2016- Involving British and International Events of the year

2016 promises to be an exciting year for gymnastics fans with plenty of incredible events to look forward to. British Championships, European and World events and of course the much anticipated  Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, it’s set to be unforgettable.

So it’s time to get the dates in your diaries, and to help we’ve listed below the major British and international events of the year.

Don’t forget there are also lots more national and regional events taking place, head to find an event on our website to look them up.

12th March – Men’s and women’s Glasgow World Cup (Tickets)

11th -13th March – Men’s U12 & U14 British Championships and women’s British Team Championships

23rd – 29th March – Acrobatic World Age Group Competitions, Putian City (CHN)

31st March – 3rd April – Trampoline, Tumbling & DMT European Championships, Valladolid (ESP)

1st – 3rd April – Acrobatic World Championships, Putian City (CHN)

8th – 10th April – Men’s and women’s artistic British Championships (Tickets)

16th – 24th April – Olympic test event, Rio (BRA)

25th – 29th May – Men’s junior and senior European Championships, Bern (SUI)

1st – 5th June – Women’s junior and senior European Championships, Bern (SUI)

13th – 19th June – Aerobic World Championships and World Age Competitions, Incheon (KOR)

17th – 19th June – Rhythmic European Championships, Holon, (ISR)

1st - 3rd July – Trampoline, Tumbling & DMT British Championships (tickets on sale 1st February)

27th – 31st July – Championship Series, Rhythmic, Aerobic, Acrobatic and TeamGym British

Championships (tickets on sale 1st February)

6th – 7th August – British Vets Championships

5th – 21st August – Olympic Games, Rio (BRA)

3rd – 4th September – UK School Games and Disability British Championships

12th -15th October – TeamGym European Championships, Maribor (SLO)

2nd – 4th December – Men’s British Team Championships and women’s Espoir British Region One Championship.

Max Whitlock GB returns to Glasgow for World Cup

The 2016 Glasgow World Cup line up has been confirmed with a star-studded line-up of international gymnasts set to compete as the prestigious event returns to the Emirates Arena on 12th March.

Leading the way will be 2015 pommel horse World Champion Max Whitlock, returning to the city where he made history for GBR in November. Joining Max will be teammate Claudia Fragapane the five-time Commonwealth Champion and World team bronze medallist and Scotsman Daniel Purvis, World Championships silver medal winner. Also in action will be 2015 World Championship team silver medallist Kelly Simm invited to take part in the World Cup as a host nation wild card competitor, the 2015 World University Champion will be aiming to make her mark again in Glasgow.

Azerbaijani gymnastics - 2015

The country gained 157 medals during last year.( 2015) and 

Rhythmic gymnasts could distinguish among the athletes, winning 81 medals overall.

Most of them are in Marina Durunda’s (22) medal box. Just one medal less was taken by her team-mate Zhala Piriyeva (21) and a gymnast Oleg Stepko who ranked 1st in the list of Azerbaijan Gymnastics Federation.

Men’s Artistic Gymnasts comes next with 32 medals followed by acrobats scoring 15 medals.
Women’s Artistic Gymnasts won 11 medals, and, finally, representatives of trampoline gymnastics and aerobic gymnastics scooped 9 medals each.
Baku will host three World Cup series including Artistic Gymnastics in February, Trampoline Gymnastics in March, and Rhythmic Gymnastics in July.

* ... Photo- > AZE-News

Anastasia Grishina has retired

2012 Olympic silver medallist, and multiple European medal winner in her native city of Moscow in 2013, Nastia Grishina, has retired, confirms head coach Valentina Rodionenko in an interview with Albert Starodubtsev of Tass.

Retirement is equals to freedom. I hope you enjoy doing the things that you don’t have time for before. Congratulations! Happy Retirement!

Birthday MAG gymnast from France

Happy Birthday -- Zachari Hrimèche, member France senior Men Artistic Gymnastics Celebrating his 19 years on 17 January 2016.

Preparation for Olympic Games 2016

Brazilian and USA Men artistic gymnastics team practice in Rio de Janeiro.

The Brazilian team preparing togetherat the training centrel, in Rio de Janeiro (RJ), During the last week

The Test-Event for gymnastics Olympic will be in the arena of the river, in barra da tijuca, from 16 to 20 April. The Olympic games will be from 6 to 16 of August 2016

The head coach of the American, Kevin Mazeika, strengthened on this experience, which according to him it was fantastic. " it's a great opportunity for our team have trained here along with Brazil. This is a sport very difficult and we all want to improve for the Olympic games ", Stressed.”

Photo from CBG