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Sunday, October 31, 2010
Friday, October 29, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Media update, and question re the Code
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Sunday, October 24, 2010
Media update - Martha Karolyi 'We cannot have the FIG thinking that only ballerinas can be gymnasts'
What an extraordinary statement. What on earth does Karolyi mean by this? What does she mean - ballerina? When we hear the word, our immediate associations are - elegance, grace, posture, effortless poise, beauty. Aren't they? And isn't this exactly what we would want from our gymnastics?Well, I can entirely understand why Karolyi wouldn't want...
Saturday, October 23, 2010
The New Russian Revolution - Musicality and the Radiant Way
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
The Anthem of Gymnastics
And finally, the anthem of gymnastics has been played in honour of the Russian team at a World Championships. Aliya Mustafina, Ksenia Afanasyeva, Anna Dementieva, Tatiana Nabieva, Ksenia Semenova and Ekaterina Kurbatova fought like titans to win Russia's first ever world team gold medals, at the 2010 World Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam today.Detailed...
Monday, October 18, 2010
Is Nabieva a revolutionary? Towards a classification of Soviet and Russian gymnastics
This weekend my friend Tracey said to me that she felt that Nabieva�s stoop Tkachev-Pak combination, performed on Saturday at the World Championships for the first time, was quite possibly the most revolutionary moment in gymnastics history since Korbut stood on the top rail of the asymmetric bars in Munich and premiered her unique loop. Those of...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
A picture link, and media update
A news feature has appeared at http://rus.ruvr.ru/2010/10/08/24773120.html highlighting the migration of Russian coaches overseas as a major factor in the downturn in Russian gymnastics recently. Not a surprise, but Valentina Rodienenko quantifies this, asserting that around 364 coaches from the former Soviet Union have left the country. So enhancing...
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Coaches, judges and gymnasts of the former Soviet Union at the Rotterdam World Championships
Thought it would be fun to compile a list of ex-Soviet gymnasts and coaches at the Rotterdam World Championships in an official capacity. This, in no particular order, is derived from the list of nominative registrations - please add more as I will doubtless have missed many!Anatoli Yarmovski � MAG coach, AzerbaijanGalina Marinova (Bulgaria) � guest...
Friday, October 8, 2010
World Championships news source - link
The Rotterdam World Championships website is attempting some quite extensive coverage of the coming competition, including pictures and reports of podium training. Webcam coverage is available, but only if you have a Netherlands IP. Here is a link to their promised coverage :http://www.gymnastics2010.com/en/a101007001.aspHope they can deliver as...
Monday, October 4, 2010
Alexander Alexandrov shows confidence in Russian team for Rotterdam
Russian team coach Alexander Alexandrov has expressed some optimism about the Russian women's prospects at the upcoming world championships.http://www.sportgymrus.ru/press/news/4066/default.aspxHe feels that Mustafina is a good prospect for the all around; and makes special mention of Nabieva's straight Tkachev-Pak combination as 'unique and historic'....
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Can the Russian women win in Rotterdam?
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