The gymnastics federation says it has no authority in its own rules to go back over the mistake.

It seemed the gymnastics federation was looking for the same outcome in Athens.

Mike Jacki, the executive director of the gymnastics federation, said no such lobbying efforts had been reported to him.

Many gymnastics federations have maintained compulsories in their national programs.

For international competitions, gymnasts always wear uniforms provided to them by their national gymnastics federation.

In 1911 he became president of the Norwegian Gymnastics Federation.

He is an international referee and in the 1990s was a member of the technical comission of the European gymnastics federation.

He was named Gymnastics Federation Coach of the Year in 1984.

In 2009, he was elected president of the Bulgarian Gymnastics Federation.

"This is incredible for me," said Adrian Stoica, the general secretary of the gymnastics federation since the revolution.