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Olympic Games 2024 - Russia Cup 2024 - competition schedule
The Olympics and the Russian Cup are running on the same dates this year ... there is the potential for what is known as gymdigestion, but I still won't miss a second of the action in Paris and...
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David Belyavski - Russia’s captain
David Belyavski was just 19 at his first World Championships in 2011. Over the past 13 years he has become the leading gymnast of the Russian team, its captain. He has led Russia to a series of...
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Viktoria Listunova in recovery, will compete at Russia Cup
Google translate of a Match TV interview with Olympic Champion Viktoria Listunova. With thanks to the gymnastics group on VK.comVictoria Listunova told Match TV about her recovery from injury on the...
View ArticleSport heals war
War is only acceptable because it is anonymous and invisible to all but a few people: those who are mad enough to think it is acceptable, those who are cruel enough to see a solution in its midst, and...
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Kustova and Vorona have retired
TASS reports that promising junior Diana Kustova (Moscow) has retired, and taken up work as a fitness trainer. Yana Vorona (Voronezh), a great beam worker who looked likely to achieve as a full member...
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The loneliness of the long distance blogger
I’m the one individual who has run this blog since 2009. Since 1972 I have followed the Soviet and Russian gymnasts through thick and thin. This has included times when virtually no information...
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Russian judges travel to Paris
Liubov Andrianova in 2016Liubov Andrianova and Dmitri Andreev, members of the FIG Technical Committees for men’s and women’s gymnastics, travel today to Paris to participate in the Olympic Games.Liubov...
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Pauper Putin
The pauper Putin looks out over Olympic Paris from behind a thick pane of double glazing. A brilliant piece of art rendered in AI and created by RRG follower Bartek Jarocki. May peace prevail in...
View ArticleBercy is haunted as Russia’s gymnasts are in the grip of Putin
Simone Biles is not the only story in Olympic gymnastics, though she may be the easiest and most compelling angle for general sports reporters.Actually, though, a bigger story is that the Russians...
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‘Biles will be perfectly prepared’ - Angelina Melnikova
Angelina poses on beam during filming of a drama about the 1980 Olympics"I'll be rooting for the Russians": [Russian neutral athletes] Olympic champion on the Paris Games and the most important...
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ICON - Svetlana Boguinskaia
BOGUINSKAIA (USSR-BLR)Born 1973 in Minsk, BelarusAt age 6, after a period of time in ice skating, began gymnastics with coach Liubov Miromanova, occasionally training at the USSR national training...
View ArticleYet Another Unnecessary Olympic Controversy, by the FIG
The FIG managed to do it again and set us all off talking about the scoring and how dreadful it was, rather than the performances and how brilliant they were.I personally loved that Alice d’Amato won...
View ArticlePregnancy Doping 2 - a word of caution
Almost ten years ago RRG covered a story about a story of doping of Soviet gymnasts in 1968. For some reason, that story is receiving a lot of hits on my site at present, and I don’t know why. So a...
View ArticleMental health time
I’m supposed to be taking some time for my mental health, not writing blog posts about gymnastics. It’s not only my mental health, but that of the whole gymnastics and sporting community. You, my...
View ArticleBlog finished
I’ve reached a time in my life when it’s more important to watch the birds and listen to my nephews and nieces laughing than it is to write about Russian gymnastics. I have a couple of ‘wrap ups’ in...
View ArticleMajor changes to structure of RGF and personnel
Some major shifts in the way gymnastics is being managed in Russia, and in the personnel. Irina Viner has resigned as President of the Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation.A decision has been made to...
View ArticleSenior personnel of the new Russian Gymnastics Federation
Presidium of the Russian Gymnastics Federation 🇷🇺Artistic gymnastics:Vasily Titov (First Vice President), Nikita Nagorny (Vice President), Andrey Rodionenko, Dmitry Andreev, Alexander Klochkov, Anton...
View ArticleOleg Belozyorev : it’s important that we have an international front
Translated from R Sport. What the President says about relations with the FIG and IOC is echoed by Nagorny in another short interview. Nagorny wants there to be international competitions with...
View ArticleRussian Gymnastics to expand its national activities
The President of the Russian Gymnastics Federation, Oleg Belozerov, said that the organization plans to develop club tournaments and gymnastics leagues in the country.“A total of 791 thousand people...
View ArticleVasily Titov re-elected as President of the FIG
⚡️Vasily Titov re-elected to the International Gymnastics Federation Executive Committee❗️The vote took place at the organization's congress in Doha."Despite the difficult political situation, we did...
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Nabiyeva now married, living in Shanghai
Our dear Tatiana Nabiyeva has married! It appears that she now lives in China.
View ArticleVladimir Zaglada - coach, author, friend, father
It is with great sadness that I report here the sudden and completely unexpected death, on 5th October, of our friend Vladimir Zaglada. I send my love and condolences to his daughter, Olesya. My...
View ArticleRIP Bela Karolyi
RIP Bela Karolyi.We were all mesmerised by the gymnastics that Nadia Comaneci brought to the world. Some of us wanted to be like Nadia. Others wanted to share her glory.When Kerri Strug saluted the...
View ArticleMore thoughts on US gymnastics, Karolyi - and Zaglada
I’d like to add some thoughts to my earlier post about USA gymnastics and Bela Karolyi: 1. What Bela did, he did. He would agree that his actions were his responsibility.2. Abusive relationships in USA...
View ArticleRussian gymnasts to apply for neutral status
Gymnastics has lost some of its appeal over the past few years, whilst Russian athletes have been out of competition. This might be an unpopular opinion, but it reflects the reality of international...
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