Rewriting Russian Gymnastics

Blog about Russia, Soviet Union, Olympics and artistic gymnastics. News and interviews on gymnastics champions, coaches and competitions.

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Good luck to Russia!

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The #Russian artistic #gymnastics team competes later today in team final at #olympics2016.  Good luck!
Monday, August 8, 2016

Russian MAG win first team medal in sixteen years

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It was an amazing moment.  Sadly my camera work, never the best, suffered under the strain of emotion.  I was hoping for bronze and never ex...
Sunday, August 7, 2016

WAG quals - results - and a reflection on Russia's need for revolutionary progress

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See https://live.fig-gymnastics.com/schedule.php?idevent=6405 for the full information The leaders in the main events in Olympic order are U...

Mustering up that musty magic

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Moments after qualifying for the team, AA and UB finals, Aliya gave a short interview to Elena Vaitsekhovskaya for Sports Express.  The acco...

Don't panic

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Although they have tested my sanity to its limits, team Russia is OK.  Seda and Aliya will have qualified to AA finals, Daria and Aliya to U...

MAG quals results - Russia in third!

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For the sake of comprehensiveness, here are the scores from yesterday -  Team http://sportgymrus.ru/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/komanda.pdf A...

WAG qualifications - some links

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The Russian women step forward today to begin the defence of their team silver medal from the last Olympics, and to try to qualify to as man...
Saturday, August 6, 2016

BBC broadcast schedule today - Olympic gymnastics - times and channels for all three subs

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I have been trying to track down a definitive online guide to the BBC gymnastics coverage but so far haven't succeeded.  This is probabl...
Friday, August 5, 2016

MAG quals - schedule, starting order, links

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The RGF has a useful page where you can access some of the key information- but I haven't been able to find start lists yet.  Please pos...