The Slovenian juniors won the team and AA titles at a tri-meet, held December 1st in the Czech town of Brno. 15-year-old Maja Hribar lead her team to a convincing victory over the host team and Germany and also scored the highest AA total of 34,050. Czech gymnasts Jana Sikulová and Romana Malácová placed second and third in the individual ranking. Hribar's coaches Mitija Samardzija and Poljanka Pavletic were happy with their pupil's competition, especially considering the fact that she is still recovering from a neck injury sustained after a scary fall on vault a few weeks ago. "Maja is still not at her best, but she is regaining her strength after the injury," Pavletic said.

The Siska Gym Club in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, where Hribar and her team mates Petra Rus and Taja Levic train, recently suffered an anthrax scare when a letter containing white powder was sent to the gym. Coaches called the police, and after an in depth investigation by health inspectors and mircobiologists, the letter was classified as a fraud. The entire building had to be shut down for a week and gymnasts and coaches had to be brought to hospital for a series of tests.