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'It's difficult to be a God' - documentary on Yuri Ryazanov (c. 2004)
The RGF has just published this half hour documentary on its YouTube channel - http://youtu.be/x9euD-9hLdkShot in about 2004, it charts the struggles of a young boy - Yuri Ryazanov - as he progresses...
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Mustafina's Injury Agony
Mustafina before the 2011 ACL injury, and after, are two different gymnasts. Remarkably, in 2012 the World Champion overcame herself to the extent that she was the leading gymnastics medal-winner at...
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Leonid Arkayev : interview with Elena Vaitsekhovskaya
Picture by Alexander Vilf, courtesy of Sports ExpressLegendary coach Leonid Arkayev talks about his personal gymnastics history, the success of the Soviet team and Simone Biles in this summary of a...
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Aliya Mustafina - injury update
With thanks to Nico of The Liukin blog, who produced this summary/translation of an interview with Valentina Rodionenko.Source - http://www.allsportinfo.ru/index.php?id=8798Aliya began treatment today...
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Komova, Grishina, Afanasyeva, Kuksenkov on roster for Voronin Cup,15-17 December
2012 Olympians Viktoria Komova, Anastasia Grishina, Ksenia Afanasyeva, and Nikolai Kuksenkov will compete in the Voronin Cup, Moscow, 15-17 December. Aliya Mustafina, Emin Garibov, Denis Ablyazin and...
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Finally, another one of these iconic documentaries has been subtitled.http://youtu.be/ovN5i0sHMq4Via Gymnastics Coaching
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Sergei Starkin to coach Aliya Mustafina
Coach Starkin with his World Champion, Denis AblyazinValentina Rodionenko: "Aliya asked Sergei Starkin to begin coaching her. He gave her certain conditions, and she agreed."IF this is confirmed, it...
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Sergei Starkin to coach Aliya Mustafina - Vladimir Zaglada answers somequestions
Fan art - from Aliya Mustafina's fan page on VK.comWe first read the news on RSport (thank you Lifje on Gymfever) - Aliya has a new coach, Sergei Starkin. Sergei is already well known - as coach to...
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Sergei Starkin - 'My job is to bring Aliya back to the best in the world'
Sergei Starkin, then coach to Denis Ablyazin and now coach to both Denis and Aliya Mustafina, at the 2012 Olympics. Courtesy of the RGFThe latest news, that Aliya Mustafina now has a personal coach -...
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No retreat, no surrender : Larissa Latynina
An interview with the most decorated Olympic Champion of all time, Larissa Latynina, by Dmitry Efanov and Alexander Lyubimov for 'Kultura'.Nine time Olympic champion gymnast Larissa Latynina will be 80...
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Video of Aliya Mustafina in training with new coach Sergei Starkin
Aliya says she is mending her back, for now.http://youtu.be/6VeYU0ewMqYVia The All Around on Facebook.
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Oksana Omelianchik - the importance of choreography
Photo source : http://www.tomtheobald.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=330I came across this journal article by joint World Champion 1985, Oksana Omelianchik. Oksana is a senior judge at major FIG...
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Maria Filatova granted residence permit
Maria Filatova has a residence permit for Russia. Hope is she will be granted her full Russian nationality soon :-)It is the best news for the New Year so far - sending all our love to...
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Where in the world are our Russians?
Well, they seem to be all over the place ...First of all, at Lake Krugloye, in the deep winter snowSosnitskaya, Spiridinova, Shelgunova, Fyodorova, Kharenkova, Bondareva, Tutkhalyan and Kramarenko get...
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Happy Birthday, Viktoria Komova!
Viktoria celebrates her 20th birthday today. Let's all wish her the very best for a happy year ahead.Russian Championships are only a few short weeks away ... Perhaps we will see how Viktoria is then.
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Flashback to 1980 - Elena Naimushina
Flashback to 1980 ... 'Kalinka' playing and a little girl, Elena Naimushina, is performing faultlessly on the floor ... Here is Elena, from Siberia, with her coach Valentin Shevchuk. The pictures are...
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Flashback to 2005 - Elena Vaitsekhovkaya interview with AndreiRodionenko
Russia's WAG team at the 2006 European Championships. Clockwise from back left: Evgeny Grebyonkin, Olga Lozhecko, Viktor Gavrichenkov, Vladimir Timonkin, Andrei Rodionenko, Polina Miller, Anna Grudko,...
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Nico translates ... Mustafina to skip Russian Nationals, Europeans
Via Sports Express, TASS has confirmed the following : TASS conducted a telephone interview with national team coach Valentina Rodionenko. A chronic back injury has prevented Mustafina from showing her...
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Aliya Mustafina and Thomas Bach, President of the IOC
Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee, is currently visiting Russia, where he met President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin. He was also lucky enough to meet Queen...
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Nagornyi 'absolutely stunning' at recent control competition
At a recent control competition - Belyavski, and Nagorny. Picture courtesy of the RGFPreparations for the pre-Olympic year are now well underway at Lake Krugloye. The men are going from strength to...
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