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The Produnova vault, Dipa Karmakar and the Commonwealth Games
Elena Produnova - one of the most beautiful and powerful gymnasts everAhead of today's Commonwealth Games WAG vault final, where India's Dipa Karmakar will attempt her handspring double front vault,...
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Training at Lake Krugloye - an update from Natalia Kalugina
Veteran Katya Kramarenko is working on an individual programme of training following her hospitalisation with pancreatitis earlier this year.Russian journalist Natalia Kalugina has visited Lake...
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Reasons to be cheerful
Pictures courtesy of the RGF and Maria Bondareva on InstagramSo the news from Lake Krugloye may be a little flat ... But not completely ... we still have reasons to be cheerful. Not least, these two...
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Balm for the artistic gymnastics soul
Irina Baraksanova on her best piece, beam, in 1985. Photocredit : Tom TheobaldThe gymnasts you will see in the following videos are all astonishingly athletic and powerful. They are innovative. They...
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Happy Birthday, Evgenia Shelgunova!
Evgenia, a member of the senior national team since 2013, turns 17 today, and posted this lovely picture of herself on Instagram.It hasn't been an easy journey for Zhenya ... Injury has dogged her...
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The Russian Heart: Days of Crisis and Hope
I came across this 1992 book about a year ago, thanks to a link on Facebook; I can't remember whose. I was lucky enough to be able to buy a copy on Amazon (it is now long out of print). In the middle...
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Viktoria Komova - 'I'm returning for the Olympic Games in Rio' -interview
Sports Express has just published an interview with the 2012 Olympic medallist. A summary (paraphrased, not word for word) is given below.- My operation was on April 30th in Germany. After returning...
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Aliya Mustafina - 'I'm just trying to stay healthy'
A brief interview with the World and Olympic Champion from All Sport is summarised below.Russian national gymnastics continues to prepare for the World Championships, which will be held October 3-12 in...
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Flashback to 2010 - Viktoria Komova
Four years ago, we were eagerly awaiting the upcoming Youth Olympic Games, and the name on everyone's lips was Viktoria Komova, who was confidently expected to win the gold medal at these Games in the...
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30 years ago ... Olga Mostepanova
Yesterday in Moscow, gymnasts, dignitaries and athletes from all sports celebrated Physical Culture Day. The Russian Gymnastics Federation has a great selection of pictures on their website, and I...
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Natalia Ilienko on BBC game show 'Tumble!'
Picture courtesy of Natalia Ilienko on Twitter1981 World floor champion Natalia Ilienko, now a coach at Heathrow Gymnastics Club, is participating as a show coach in Tumble! a BBC reality game show in...
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Good luck, Seda Tutkhalyan!
Thanks to Gymnasticsedits for the lovely collageSeda begins her YOG experience today, with qualifications in subdivision 3, at 7 pm today Nanjing time.Start lists and results are available here :...
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Russia's new all around champion - Seda Tutkhalyan!
Daughter of a former Soviet wrestling world champion (Guergan Tutkhalyan), Seda put on her game face and fought for every point, taking a gold medal in today's Youth Olympics all around, just ahead of...
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Congratulations Russia! Nagorny and Tutkhalyan win multiple golds inYouth...
Two great young Russian champions emerged this week in China at the Youth Olympics ... Seda Tutkhalyan from Moscow (2 golds, including the coveted all around, and a silver on the floor) and Nikita...
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Russia Cup - the road to Nanning!
The Russian MAG and WAG teams take their preparation for World Championships in Nanning one step further this week, as key players compete in the annual Russia Cup in Penza. There will be team, all...
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Russia Cup - Komova to compete on bars, Balandin out with injury
A short news video released today by the Penza Press agency shows Viktoria Komova training beam, but in an interview the Olympic medallist confirms that her ankle is still painful, and she will compete...
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Mustafina wins Russia Cup
I am still waiting for the publication of full results (for some reason the RGF files are missing names, at least when viewed on my IPad) but some of us were awake very early this morning to see Aliya...
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Nikita Ignatyev becomes Russia Cup champion!
Nikita Ignatyev with the top six gymnasts at Russia Cup this year. Left to right - Roman Suetin (6th), Ivan Stretovich (5th), David Belyavski (2nd), Nikita Ignatyev, Mikhail Kudashov (3rd), Daniil...
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Russia Cup - WAG EF line ups
The event finals will take place on Saturday and Sunday. Thank you to the Gymnastics group on VK.com, where I obtained these screen captures.Vault : Paseka, Sosnitskaya, Akhaimova, Nabiyeva, Cheong,...
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