Thanks for this.
Team Russia on the podium L-R is Alexandra Shevchenko, Leysera Gabdrakhmanova, Natalia Ziganshina, Anna Pavlova, Maria Kryuchkova, Lyudmila Yezhova
Komova was a perfectionist to her detriment. She just couldn’t cope when things went wrong although she did get better later in her career.
2015 Komova at the UB WTAF world final was a totally different athlete to 2012 Komova.
In terms of depth, 2012 was the deepest and unlike 2008, there wasn’t anyone who could conceivably beat the US. Even a team of the 2nd Five, likely Price, Finnegan, Sacramone, Li and Dowell would have beaten Russia.
Yes. Retired and working for the same youth movement Nagorny is involved with, holding gymnastics camps in Donetsk. In the summer she was with Produnova to reopen their old gymnastics club in Rostov following a refurbishment.
Whilst it is not at all “my” thread, I have asked repeatedly throughout it for the discussion to be kept to gymnastics. Essentially a news thread for Russian gymnastics, similar to the British one, for things that are newsworthy but do not merit a thread of their own. I was under the impression...
we have a thread for discussing the impact that geopolitical events have had on gymnastics in Russia and U’raine. Perhaps this discussion could be moved there and this thread can be just about gymnastics. This definitely isn’t the place to discuss political policies of the IOC or the FIG.
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I don’t think that gymReddit has a particularly young demographic. Reddit on the whole doesn’t attract large numbers of younger users and I’d be very surprised to find any regular gym redditors under 25