Olga with her coach Sofia Muratova in 1971. You can also see a video of Olga training with Sofia at http://youtu.be/rDLY5Ctbe38 I wanted to record in English the key points of this 2001 interview with Olga. Thanks to Maryam Vulis who gave me...
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!...
