Lupita translates a Prosport interview with 1976 and 1980 Olympic Champion, President of the WTC, Nelli Kim. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Not long ago, Nelli Kim came to Almaty on the...
Monday, February 18, 2013
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Russian regional gymnastics system : an explanation
Map of Russia: courtesy of InfopleaseGo-Tribe has developed this great guide to the Russian regional system of gymnastics at her website, Videos of Russian Gymnasts. That explains the mystery of all those competitions!An extremely interesting and useful blog that has links...
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Alexander Alexandrov: 'They performed like artists with a classical style'
I posted a link to this 2011 article on Facebook in response to a request for more videos of classical gymnastics. A follower called Vince Miller posted a response:'I was there and it was the most incredible 15 minutes of artistic gymnastics I've ever seen!'That is exactly how I feel about this 1989 team. I feel privileged to have been there, in...
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Pictures, pictures, pictures ... and an Alexandrov update
2012 Olympian Maria Paseka competes in January 2013As you may have seen, Gym Blog Brazil has confirmed that Alexander Alexandrov will be remaining in Russia for the time being. Apparently the Brazilian Federation were unable to strike an appropriate agreement at this moment...
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
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Friday, February 1, 2013
'I hope we will prove that gymnastics can be both difficult and beautiful' - Valentina Rodionenko
Lupita has kindly translated the key points of this Ministry of Sport video which has been doing the rounds on the internet. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;...
