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...
