12 weeks to go for the artistic worlds

LAUSANNE (SUI), FIG Office - ROTTERDAM (NED), July 26 2010: From October 16 to 24, 2010, the City of Rotterdam (NED) will welcome the 615 gymnasts registered to compete at the 42nd Artistic Gymnastics World Championships. This number is a new record of participation and the Local Organising Committee is getting ready to face this new challenge and showed to the FIG TCs Presidents in a recent meeting on site, that everything is in good hands.

The competition hall “Ahoy” will be totally rebuilt and will offer extraordinary facilities for the gymnasts, including six completely equipped fields of play for training. The media area will offer high technology services including, for the first time in Artistic Gymnastics, the free internet access for the journalists. This evolution has been warmly welcome by the Head of the FIG Press Operations, declaring that “after Rodez (Aerobic), Wroclaw (Acrobatic), Moscow (Rhythmic), Rotterdam is a new and important step for free internet access for the media community following gymnastics the world over.”