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This year the
tickets for officials and press were restricted, only the
most important guys (like us - *grin*) get a chance to take
part at the press table. Or you looked like being important
and you were willing to pay 30 Euros for a seat at the "I
like to be important"-table.
 Anyway - the dishes would have been worth
the money. Lots of different kinds of fishes (because meat
isn't very popular in Europe at the moment because of BSE
), lobsters, caviar and champagne. Svetlana Khorkina choosed
the potato-gratin and a glass of white wine, if anybody
is interested in that  .
Popular Chinese
gymnast Chun Yue Bai - some not named gymnasts gave her
the respectless nickname "it" because of her remarkable
height of 133 cm - enjoyed the swiss ice-cream, Olympic
Champion Aljaz Pegan just wanted to have beer and after
the last desert has been eaten the real party began.
 In one corner of the room there was a
little mobile disco platform was, good sound, good music
thought Elena Zamolodchikova by herself and was the first
who started to dance. Nearly the whole "russian-speaking"-table
followed, Ekaterina Lobaznyuk, Olga Roshupkina and all the
others. But dancing seemed to be a job for girls and (more-or-less)
officials that night, male gymnasts prefered having one
(or another) beer at the bar or studying the results summary.
With a noticable exception: Shu Wai
Ng (no, this is NOT a typo) was the star on the dance floor.
The friendly 8.0 gymnast from Malaysia gave more than one
of his sensational breakdance-shows for the wild applauding
audiance.
...........
The rest
of the party is short to tell, simply a great success of
German hospitality. Sure, most athlets will like to return
to the European Team Championships, hold in May in Riesa
in Saxony which is not far away from Cottbus.
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