“The most beautiful world championships of all timesâ€, FIG president Bruno Grandi said about the world championships in Stuttgart.
I dunno know. Some people I talked to said it was the worst, rudest organizing committee ever. A disaster for spectators.
Still, the photos by Volker Minkus are fantastic. See a preview of a new book called The Beauty of Gymnastics (German and English text):
The PREVIEW uses that cool new “page flip” preview technology.
216 pretty pages:
However, ‘The Beauty of Gymnastics’ is more than just a documentation of the world championships in Stuttgart. The aim of author Andreas Götze, editor-in-chief of the gymnastics magazine LEON*, and his co-publisher Michael Weber was to present a book which also conveys the beauty and the fascination of gymnastics beyond the (world championships) days and which offers amazing insights into the world of gymnastics. Therefore, this illustrated book also includes interesting facts from the history of gymnastics and its world championships, a chapter about the development of the Code of Points, a presentation of famous ‘inventors’ as well as a collection of stamps with gymnastics motifs and much more.With regard to the extraordinary design of the book, credit is owed to Andreas Aguilar, who became world champion on rings in Stuttgart in 1989.
The publishers will donate a part of the sales revenue to young gymnasts in Germany. …
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