Via Natalia Kalugina.1968 Olympic champion, Larissa Petrik, BB. How difficult to make such simplicity beautiful. http://youtu.be/EMUEo5P1...
Monday, December 21, 2015
Saturday, December 12, 2015
1983 World Championships - WAG
It's worth watching these timeless videos. Check out the routines of Alla Shishova, especially on beam. She was ahead of her time. Also observe the magnificent artistry of Olga Mostepanova and Natalia Yurchenko. Neither gymnast had intricate choreography, but they were both captivating. Their work conveyed emotional as...
Saturday, December 5, 2015
Pregnancy doping - the context
For those of you coming to the story about pregnancy doping late, and wondering what on earth those translations I published this morning are all about, some context - The Observer published a history of cheating in sport on the 15th November that featured allegations of pregnancy doping in the USSR gymnastics team at the 1968 Olympics. The allegations...
Friday, December 4, 2015
Pregnancy doping - Olga Karasyova. Kommersant's account of 10th December 1998
Olga Kharlova (left) in 1966, with the USSR World Championships team. This is before her marriage to gymnastValeri Karasyov.Lauren Cammenga found the original Kommersant story about the bogus pregnancy doping story. The date of the article is 10th December...
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Viktoria Komova and Aliya Mustafina - interviews
At the recent press conference, both Aliya and Vika gave short interviews. You can finds videos of them and the ROC's website.Olesya Mikheeva has found time to provide some translations - thank you!!Aliya's Interview.�Operation was done on November 3rd, so about 3 weeks...
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Fact or fiction? The press, gymnastics and pregnancy doping
It was a Sunday morning. I was drinking my coffee and contemplating the day ahead - a workout at the gym, shopping for groceries, an evening reading a book, or catching up on last night's episodes of crime thriller The Bridge. How nice it was not to have to think...
Sunday, November 22, 2015
Melnikova wins Massilia Cup
Angelina taking her gold medal AA at the Junior European Championships in 2014. Picture courtesy of UEG.Yesterday, at the Massilia Cup, Russian junior Angelina Melnikova scored 57.5 to win the all around competition ahead of France's Marine Brevet and Romania's Diana Bulimar,...
Sunday, November 15, 2015
Unsung heroine - Daria Spiridonova
There is an unsung heroine on the Russian team, one who is often taken for granted - Daria Spiridonova. In amongst all the missed connections, the razzmatazz of announcements and big tumbles that characterised the World Championships at Glasgow, Spiridonova calmly maintained...
Aliya Mustafina - on the mend
Aliya has responded to a few questions about her health. At present, she is at home with her family, undergoing rehabilitation at the clinic where she had a procedure on her right knee on the 3rd November.'I am not allowed to jump or squat until December 7th' she said....
Saturday, November 14, 2015
Friday, November 6, 2015
Daria Spiridonova - I will need to increase my D value and go clean to win in Rio
- To be honest, I have almost forgotten the special feeling that I won the World Championship gold - said Daria Spiridonova. - I am happy, but in general everything is back as it was - and still is. Only at home, of course, I was greeted and welcomed as a hero (smiles).-...
Aliya Mustafina - 'everything is OK'
'Everything is OK, the operation went as planned, under general anesthesia. Now I feel good. While I am in hospital, I will walk with crutches. Doctors have said that the timing of my return to competition will become apparent as I recover. But in general, no one can make any predictions - it is too early. The plan is that I will...
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
'It's very hard without Mustafina' - Valentina Rodionenko
Valentina Rodionenko has confirmed that Olympic champion Aliya Mustafina has successfully undergone surgery on the meniscus in her right knee. "The operation went fine. We'll see when Aliya will be back. We hope that it will be all right. All the gymnasts really...
Sunday, November 1, 2015
A gold medal of gold medals - Viktoria Komova
I would make this my gold medal of all gold medals ... What an amazing comeback from Viktoria Komova ... as the BBC commentators said yesterday, her beauty takes gymnastics 'beyond the textbook'. And so it should be.http://youtu.be/_grQzeF55xsCongratulations to the gymnasts!...
Saturday, October 31, 2015
Thursday, October 29, 2015
WAG AA results
Congratulations to all the medalists, including Simone, who wins for the third time winning, Gabrielle, who has completed a comeback after a break since Olympics, and Larissa who overcame a mountain of disappointment after qualifications.Russia's promise, Seda, had quite a good...
Aliya Mustafina : knee surgery on 3rd November
World and Olympic Champion, Aliya Mustafina, will travel back to Moscow on the 2nd November, ready for surgery on an injured meniscus in her right knee on the 3rd, head coach Valentina Rodionenko said today in an interview with R Sport. Aliya tore the ACL in her left knee...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
The domino effect - Russia collapses and must rise again
Newcomer Seda Tutkhalyan did well to improve her floor performance for her team.It was a tough competition today for Russia. Put simply, they fell too much for a better outcome. The girls were on a swell following a great vault performance and two top class bars...
Monday, October 26, 2015
Sunday, October 25, 2015
The changing identity of artistic gymnastics - what do you think?
There is a really good comment on my post 'Maybe it's the end'. It is from Cami, and I didn't want it to remain relatively hidden at the bottom of the post as it is full of ideas for discussion. Thank you, Cami ... Cami says - 'You make excellent points, about how the identity of artistic gymnastics is changing. that�s the nature...
