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I will take a watch and summarise it

Ludmilla Tourischeva was blatantly corrupt for years.

Oh yes. It’s not the first time that content from here has been taken and put on Reddit or twitter

Yep. It’s a big Skye/Shilese shaped hole

Haha that was my first thought too

i mean, it is an option. It’s there in the COP. Everyone seems to have found the easy beam dismounts easily enough, so I doubt that coaches are ignorant to its existence. Several coaches have trained their gymnasts to do toe on or stalder entry dismounts. So why aren’t they doing yours?

She was actually training.

Yes, this is exactly. It’s also why on the rare occasions we see UB dismounts that are not double saltos, they are toe on or stalder led. Because gymnasts train these skills already.

Yes she is still the head coach of the senior women’s team. Aliya Mustafina is the head of junior women’s. But it’s not really that similar to NTC type role, there are so many national team staff. Valentina is like the CEO

Some other appointments that happened recently were also made official. Elena Zamolodchikova is now our rusada representative. They’ve even given her a certificate!

There was a big press conference with Andrei Rodionenko at round lake today. Coincides with national team training camp, Melnikova was back in the gym. The big news is that Andrei Rodionenko will leave his position as the men’s national team coach and has been appointed as an advisor to the...

I don’t think Jordan is done with elite. The bronze medal debacle has left her with something to prove I think. But I guess in the short term, the bigger question is the coaching situation, where will she go?

It’s a very strange scenario really, since both those gyms have produced some nice gymnasts I am interested to see what she looks like now. I included her floor in a very, very boring seminar that I tried to make somewhat engaging by only using Sofia/Sophia as my examples

Yes, I completely agree. Some people took my reaction badly, but I genuinely couldn’t fathom why any coach would allow an athlete to compete elite so young when there are serious issues that need a huge amount of attention. I’ll be interested to see how she looks, 2 years on

Portugal and Hungary I believe