Lovely montage from Maria Kharenkova for World Champions in the uneven bars, Daria Spiridonova and Viktoria Komova. Molodyets! You were the champions of beauty!&nb...
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...
Saturday, October 24, 2015
A hypothetical stance amid nerdy calculations. China come 8th, Holland third. Russia wins!
Calculating scores using the 3-3 format of finals produces a slightly different finishing order than today. China take bronze ahead of Britain, Japan takes fifth ahead of Italy, Netherlands jumps ahead of Canada. It's a different competition and we will just have...
Maybe it's the end ...
This is what I was thinking as I watched the slow, sad drift downwards of the Romanian team in the rankings. I hadn't envisaged it happening, and it gave me a feeling of foreboding. Perhaps Russia would succumb to the same forces as Romania and (relatively) quietly...
Friday, October 23, 2015
Russia leads qualifying (for now)
Molodyets, team! The Russian girls have achieved their aim of qualifying for Rio, the main objective of the World Championships this year. I think it is true to say that they performed somewhat better than expected. At present the team leads vault, bars and...
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Russian team predictions from Valentina
Ksenia Afanasyeva in podium training yesterdayReserves are confirmed at this stage as Dmitri Lankin and Evgeniya Shelgunova.Competing AA will be - WAG - Daria Spiridonova and Seda Tutkhalyan; MAG - Nikita Ignatyev, David Belyavski and Nikolai KuksenkovIt will be tough for the...
Sunday, October 18, 2015
The teams are more important than individuals, says Rodionenko
Viktoria Komova receives her team medal at a ceremony last week.Speaking in an interview on the Russian Olympic Association's website, Andrei and Valentina Rodionenko put forward their thoughts on the potential of their teams in Glasgow..- A key theme of the interview was the...
Friday, October 16, 2015
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Valentina Rodionenko - 'Mustafina will have knee surgery after Glasgow'
In a report in Stadium.ru, Russia's head coach Valentina Rodionenko has revealed that Aliya Mustafina will travel to Germany post-Glasgow for surgery on her knee ligaments. The extent of the injury is unclear but Rodionenko says that it was during a period of rest that the problem became evident. Aliya is in good spirits and it is expected...
Sunday, October 11, 2015
Worlds 2015 - Nominative registrations
1997 born Dmitri Lankin, a rising star on the men's teamThe FIG has now updated the nominative registration listings so you can have fun perusing them and seeing who are on the latest teams - there have been plenty of changes across the world.One alteration - which has almost...
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Saturday, October 3, 2015
World Gymnastics Championships 2015 - Russian team news
Denis Ablyazin - coach Sergei Starkin confirms that his preparations are going wellKeep your eyes peeled over the coming days and weeks for news of the Russian team. Offical nominative registrations were published by the FIG over a week ago, but it is almost inevitable...
