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Pictures, pictures, pictures ... and an Alexandrov update
2012 Olympian Maria Paseka competes in January 2013As you may have seen, Gym Blog Brazil has confirmed that Alexander Alexandrov will be remaining in Russia for the time being. Apparently the...
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Valentina Rodionenko: Now the focus is the personal coach
Lupita translates a brand new interview with Russian head coach, Valentina Rodionenko. This is taken from the Ministry of Sport website.February 8th 2013For summer sports a new Olympic quad has...
View ArticleAlexander Alexandrov: 'They performed like artists with a classical style'
I posted a link to this 2011 article on Facebook in response to a request for more videos of classical gymnastics. A follower called Vince Miller posted a response:'I was there and it was the most...
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Russian regional gymnastics system : an explanation
Map of Russia: courtesy of InfopleaseGo-Tribe has developed this great guide to the Russian regional system of gymnastics at her website, Videos of Russian Gymnasts. That explains the mystery of all...
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Nelli Kim comes home to Kazakhstan
Lupita translates a Prosport interview with 1976 and 1980 Olympic Champion, President of the WTC, Nelli Kim. Not long ago, Nelli Kim came to Almaty on the invitation of the Kazakhstan Gymnastics...
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Russian Championships 2013
The Russian Championships for MAG and WAG begin tomorrow - a good opportunity to judge how training has been going for the gymnasts. Remember that Viktoria Komova is not competing here as she has a...
View ArticleArtistry versus acrobatics???
Watching videos of this weekend's competitions - the qualification and all around rounds of the Russian championships, medal winners from the American Cup - I am struck, more and more, by the huge...
View ArticleRussia's new champions : Mustafina and Belyavski
A fresh start has been made in the Russian Federation, and yesterday Russia's stars presented themselves anew in their first small steps towards the Rio Olympics in 2016. The team's leading Olympic...
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Central beat Moscow in WAG team final!
Central team veteran Anna Pavlova is still competing well.Central beat Moscow in tight team final ... 166.85 to 166.75. Paseka scored 15.75 on vault for Moscow with her best Amanar!Afanasyeva is still...
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Central beat Moscow again - MAG team finals, Russian Championships
Graceful David Belyavski has been Russia's leading AAer at these championships.Central beat Moscow (a close result again - 259.95/259.6) ... in today's MAG competition. Find the full results...
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Artistry and Music in Gymnastics: what do you think?
A press release from the FIG. FEDERATION INTERNATIONALE DE GYMNASTIQUEPRESS RELEASE(for immediate distribution)+++ Artistry and Music in GymnasticsIN THE FOOTSTEPS OF EUTERPE!Lausanne (SUI) / FIG...
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WAG, MAG event finals day 1, Russian Championships
Tatiana Nabieva is working hard to prepare for this summer's Universiade, and performed a strong routine today. Photo : courtesy of the RGF.Full results are now available at the RGF website - I'll...
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Day 2 EF - MAG, WAG Russian Championships
Olympic medallist Denis Ablyazin was the star this week in PenzaThe spectacular events of beam, floor, vault, parallel bars and high bar took place last week and I am finally updating the blog with...
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Russia WAG win Gymnix International Junior Cup
Maria Bondareva, courtesy of RGFRussia's charming young gymnasts, Maria Bondareva, Anastasia Dmitrieva, Polina Spirina and Ekaterina Sokova, knocked out the rest of the competition with their artistry...
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Valentina Rodionenko interview
The evergreen, always opinionated Valentina RodionenkoLupita translates below an interview with Valentina Rodionenko from the 28th February. This was before the Russian Championships had closed, but...
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Elena Vaitsekhovskaya - website, and an interview with Elena Mukhina
Elena Vaitsekhovskaya is one of Russia's leading sports journalists, herself a former Olympian. You will have read Lupita's translation of at least one piece of her writing here - the article entitled...
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Aliya Mustafina : R Sport interview, 7th March
A nice interview with Aliya from just before the Russian Championships. Key points from the Google translate :She won second place in an R Sport vote for the best Russian sports woman, behind Evgeniya...
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Mustafina, Grishina, Paseka, Afanasyeva - four for Moscow
Anastasia Grishina at the Russian Championships in Penza earlier this month. Picture courtesy of RGFNominative registrations are now out for the upcoming European Championships in Moscow.Women : Aliya...
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Nikolai Andrianov, Olympic Hero
For many years, Collet's socialist bookshop on Tottenham Court Road, London was somewhere I went to find little treasures of Soviet gymnastics. It was a subject that was sparsely, often very cynically...
View ArticleAliya Mustafina videos, Stella Zakharova Cup
Aliya competed this weekend in Ukraine - probably our last chance to see her before Euros in just over two weeks' time. I haven't seen full results yet but even with a fall on floor, Aliya won the all...
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