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They did accept it as an extenuating circumstance. They just didn’t accept all her demands, but they did allow her to trial at a later date

I’m not particularly attached to floor being a square. However I disagree with making changes to make the sport easier. Being able to complete your tumbles within a limited space is part of the difficulty. It’s like saying the beam should be wider

There will be a petition process for situations like this. There isn’t if someone was just too injured to compete at trials

Dinamo was and still is one of the largest and best training facilities in Russia. It has been upgraded in recent years, but mostly cosmetic and wear and tear upgrades as it’s always been so ahead of its time. It would still be considerably larger and better than any gym I’ve been to the UK.

There are a few gyms around the world named after Dinamo. Including Kelly Sim’s gym in Southampton. The spelling and pronunciations vary in different countries, but in Russia it’s DEE-na-mo

In the 80s, the only gym that was open to receiving western coaches and gymnasts was Dinamo in Moscow. Mikhail Voronin, who was if you like, gymnastics’ oligarch was director at the time and would go on to convert the club into his own private enterprise which it remains today. Back in the 80s...

It makes me laugh how western gymnastics coaches of that era would refer to things as “Soviet” or even broader “eastern bloc” as if every coach did everything the same way 😂 I am imagining myself going back to work on Monday and my boss saying “right guys, I spent a month at a summer camp in...

Yes he did coach at Karolyis but it can’t have been for very long when you consider the timeline of them opening their gym and Nunno beginning to coach Shannon in Oklahoma

I thought it was Jessica who is scheduled to compete?

I am really happy to see Rin translate her junior success to senior level (she was also the first US gymnast to medal at junior worlds).

There is a big drop off after the top 4, who were the same gymnasts that were top 4 at euros just in a different order. Below them, everyone is working at around the same level so it depends on who hits on the day. Typically you’d also expect 4 gymnasts from Russia and Belarus amongst the top...

I don’t see the appeal in giving your child a name that they are always going to have to spell out.

I think it’s Shar-lay. That announcer seemed to go to great lengths to pronounce everyone’s names correctly

Yes, but of all the opportunities, rarely do they get a worlds, or actually anything closer than Indonesia

Svetlana Khorkina is producing a gymnastics theatre show, inspired by the stories of athletes who fought during WW2. It’s at the VTB arena, so I guess they are expecting quite a crowd…