-Maria Olaru says that Andreea is the person she is closest to at the Deva Training centre because "both of us are always cheerful and in a good mood"

October 1999

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS

ALL AROUND

1.    Maria Olaru  ROM   38.774

2.    Viktoria Karpenko    UKR   38.705

3.    Elena Zamolodchikova     RUS    38.687

4.    Elena Produnova     RUS    38.673

5.    Andreea Raducan     38.617

6.    Fangxiao Dong     CHN    38.143

7.    Mandan Huang     CHN    38.018

8.    Elise Ray    USA     38.017

9.    Allana Slater     AUS    37.805

10.    Sara Moro     ESP    37.785

11.    Esther Moya     ESP    37.649

12.    Svetlana Khorkina     RUS    37.611

13.    Olga Roschupkina     UKR    37.485

14.    Simona Amanar     ROM    37.299

15.    Monica Bergamelli     ITA    37.299

16.    Lisa Skinner     AUS    37.293

17.    Bai Chunyue     CHN    37.125

18.    Sugawara Risa     JPN    36.949

19.    Kate Richardson     CAN    36.860

20.    Laura Martinez     ESP    36.737

21.    Martina Bremini     ITA    36.711

22.    Natalia Hordny     UKR    36.705

23.    Yvonne Tousek     CAN    36.680

24.    Birgit Schweigert     GER    36.618

25.    Trudy McIntosh     AUS    36.580

26.    Lisa Mason     GBR    36.555

27.    Danielle Hypolito     BRA    36.536

28.    Miho Takenaka     JPN    36.523

29.    Alexandra Soler     FRA    36.512

30.    Inna Poklonskaia     BLR    35.755

31.    Vanessa Atler     USA    35.731

32.    Monique Nuijten     NED    35.618

33.    Jana Komrskova     CZE    35.554

34.    Nelly Ramassamy     FRA    35.449

35.    Alena Polozkova     BLR    34.961

36.    Irina Yevdokimova     KAZ    34.324

TEAM                       Vault         Bars         Beam      Floor         Total

1.    ROMANIA         38.180    38.474     37.786    39.087    153.527

2.    RUSSIA             37.835     38.899   37.625    38.850     153.209

3.    CHINA               36.774     38.899    38.375    38.375     152.423

4.    UKRAINE          37.492    38.586     37.736    38.524    152.338

5.    AUSTRALIA     37.298    38.111    37.224     38.299    150.932

6.    USA                  37.578     37.387    37.024    38.224      150.213

APPARATUS

Vault

Bars

1.    Svetlana Khorkina    RUS   9.837

2.    Mandan Huang    CHN   9.825

3.   Jie Ling   CHN   9.812

4.    Elena Produnova    RUS   9.750

5.    Viktoria Karpenko    UKR   9.725

6.    Maria Olaru   ROM   9.712

7.     Elise Ray    USA   9.687

8.    Tasiana Zharhanava     BLR    9.612

Beam

Vault

1.   Elena Zamalodchikova   RUS   9.718

2.    Simona Amanar    ROM   9.631

3.    Maria Olaru   ROM   9.593

4.    Elena Produnova    RUS   9.587

5.    Trudy McIntosh    AUS   9.568

6.     Denise Lopez    MEX   9.562

7.    Viktoria Karpenko    UKR   9.475

8.    Laura Martinez     ESP    8.606

September 1999

-Oksana Chusovitina is Pregnant. Her baby is due in 3 months.

-Svetlana Boginskaia had a baby girl

-Kristen Maloney is again USA National Champion

-Laura Robertson is again NZ National Champion

-Claudia Prescan has retired due to a shoulder injury

-Dominique Moceanu has her belly button pierced

-Lavinia Milosovici has taken up rally driving. She told Gym Stars "Driving is my biggest hobby and I want to take part in lots of rallies. It will be even better if I manage to win." She came 6th in her first rally last May.

-Simona Amanar has given cash prizes to her home club in Constanta. She says "It was my own idea. It's here that I started gymnastics so it's not unusual for me to donate some money to the club that trained me. The young gymnasts deserve a reward like this."

-Kim Zmeskal who was coming back to gymnastics for the 2nd time, has torn her archilles tendon but even though this injury may take months to recover from, Kim says that this will not finish her gymnastics career.

26 June 1999

-Dominique has been unable to train fully for nearly a month due to a sore back. She had a bone scan earlier this week to see if the persistant pain is indicative of a more serious injury, maybe a stress fracture.

-The magnificent 7, Kim Zmeskal, Peggy Liddock and Jennie Thompson were bridesmaids at shannon Miller's wedding. They wore pretty silver satin dresses.

*Shannon Miller got married yesterday. Shannon and the gests at her wedding had earned 26 Olympic medals between them.

*Luibov Sherementa is pregnant and is engaged

*Dominique Moceanu has  made up with her father

*Liliya podkopayeva and coach, Galina Lossinskaia are in Florida, training for the 2000 Olympics. Liliya has a boyfriend. She was at the American Cup, cheering on the Ukrainian gymnasts.

*Dominique moceanu moved to the USA Olympic training centre in Colorado with her coach Luminita, she has attened a prom.

*Svetlana Boginskaia was married quietly in January, she is pregnant.

*Romania won the ITC

*Elena Produnova is the new Russian National Champion

*Jennie Thompson won the American Cup

January 1999:

*Dominique Moceanu is training with Luminita Mischenko again. Both of them are at Rita Brown's gym in Florida.

*Amanda Borden and Amy Chow won the Reese's Cup. Dominique Moceanu and Shannon Miller were signing autographs. Dominique said to a friend "Gosh I really want to be ou there."

*Shannon Miller is engaged to a medical student. She has already picked the dress and has a large engagement ring. The magnificent 7 will be among her 14 bridesmaids. Kim Zmeskal, Lavinia Milosovici and Gina Gogean are engaged too. jaycie Phelps is going out with Jason Gatson And Amanda Borden and John Macready are still together.

*Aurelia Dobre is expecting twins.

October 1998:

*Dina Kotchetkova was married recently.

*Liubov Sherementa got a foot infection last year and missed a few months of training. She put on weight and couldn't get back into shape. She is retired and now coaches juniors.

*Viktoria Karpenko is injured again. She had to withdraw from the goodwill games because of an ankle injury.

*Alexandra Marinescu has retired after having 6 months of surgery for a back injury. She took up sports aerobics but she has now decided to be a model. She has a 5 year contract with a modeling company who have revamped her image. She wants to be a film star.

*The 2001 world championships will be in Gand, Belguim & the 2003 world championships will be in Indianapolis, USA.

*Anna Kovalyova had her own fan club from Novgorod at St Petersburg. She smiled at waved at them all through the competition.

*Lavinia MIlosovici is learning English and she wants to be an International gymnastics judge.

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