Recent content by mnesiptolema

According to his instagram, Misha Koudinov (NZ) is injured and out for a year. What a huge disappointment for him and NZ. He was the frontrunner for the Oceania spot, so this could be an opportunity for Heath.

Surely if she’s a Swiss national (as well as a Russian national) there would be different laws or a different process involved?

You make it sound like she’s just waltzing around not bothering to try and with no commitment to the team which is giving her a free degree. Based on the interview linked above she is actually experiencing intense anxiety which has rendered her unable to enjoy her college experience. Not that...

Apologies I got the name wrong, it has been too long since I studied Cold War history and got events mixed up. I should have said Prague Spring. But yes I meant following the Soviet invasion.

To add to this and in response to the comments about Iraq, the UN Secretary General at the time, Kofi Annan, did explicitly say it was illegal and breached the UN Charter. And going straight to the UN Charter it’s clear that he’s right, since the only time violence is permissible is (a) in...

The American propensity for giving children made-up names will never cease to amuse me.

The world’s not just divided into autocracies and democracies. Some autocracies are more oppressive than others (and some democracies are more repressive than others too). Russia might not be a valid democracy but it’s also not the Soviet Union, and not just in terms of civil repression. The end...

I don’t really have a dog in this fight overall, but you want them to listen to Kids Bop?

I think I like this change, and it’s sensible, but does the Code provide a threshold for some of these? E.g. lack of releve - presumably the whole exercise need not be in releve, but similarly a gymnast should not receive credit for a few seconds on their tiptoes just to tick the box. Likewise...

Do you say that because of her lost aerial awareness? I thought they were a ‘no rhyme or reason’ thing.

That may be the stupidest outfit I’ve ever seen.

It’s 2021 and we’re still in lockdown 😦

@Sanzhirovka I’m not entirely sure what you’re looking for. What do you think is missing in routines today that you want to see return? Or is your motivation to fix the piecemeal rule-making of the FIG?

I wish Ferrari took it over Carey, whose tumbling is next-level, but everything else was just so pedestrian.

Y’know, that’d be kind of fun. If anybody did get this off the ground, I’d happily contribute to background/research needs or throw a a few dollars toward the effort.