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The season is off to a start in Europe with the Cottbus World Cup, scheduled for 24th-27th February. Over a hundred gymnasts are registered for the event, including Olympic MAG floor champion Artem Dolgopyat and 2021 Worlds balance beam silver medallist Pauline Schaefer-Betz. The Doha World Cup takes place on 2nd-5th March, with a considerable number …

Elisabeth Seitz: “The all-around is my priority”

Elisabeth Seitz was beaming as she entered the mixed zone following the all-around competition in which she won the bronze medal. A Stuttgart local, like her teammate Kim Bui, she had an enormous amount of support from the audience throughout the competition, who were delighted to see her finish on the podium. The 25-year-old had …

Ana Padurariu: “I’m still a little starstruck!”

Canadian gymnast Ana Padurariu finished in second place at the Stuttgart AA World Cup event on Sunday, six months after winning the silver medal on beam at the World Championships in Doha. After a shaky start to her senior career, sustaining an ankle injury in her very first senior competition, 16-year-old Ontario native Padurariu was …

Stuttgart World Cup interview: Lorette Charpy (FRA)

We got to spend a few minutes with Lorette following her wonderful performance at the Stuttgart World Cup and she talked about how her competition went, almost medalling and future upgrades (interview done in French and translated) How was the competition today for you? LORETTE: It was pretty good. I know I still need to …

Stuttgart World Cup – Eddy Yusof (SUI) interview

How did you feel about the competition today? EDDY: Yeah, it was quite a good competition for me. Just one apparatus, the parallel bars... but the rest was really OK, so I'm quite happy. Yeah, everything was so clean until parallel bars and after that, high bar was really fantastic as well. You looked really …

Stuttgart World Cup (podium training) – Elisabeth Seitz interview

How was podium training today? ELISABETH: For me, podium training went well. I feel really good after the bronze medal at the World Championships, like extremely good, like I'm 18 again! (Laughs) Tomorrow I want to show some new skills and I want to do my Yurchenko double again. It's the first time in six …

Stuttgart – DTB Pokal Team Challenge Recap

Last weekend now feels like a million years ago, given that this week we've been following the World Cups in Baku, Doha and Birmingham, but here we are with a brief recap of this fun event in Stuttgart, which took place on 16th and 17th March. For those unfamiliar with the format of this event, …