Recent content by ponorvanas

I'm bored, so I wanted to look at the numbers for Forminte's previous tenure (2017-2020), just to highlight how absurd his appointment is. 2017 Individual European Championships Olivia Cimpean (26th) and Ioana Crisan (29th) made it into the AA final due to the 2-per-country rule. The former...

Forminte being named as the head coach is one of, if not the worst possible decisions, in my opinion. I was naively hoping they won't try to 'recentralize' training, since I can't see a scenario in which the Voinea national team relocates to Deva. I've seen a Suciu interview in December. He...

OMV/Petrom is fully sponsoring 'Tara. Tara', so I find it highly unlikely that Bitang legally owns the equipment. I assume she has the final say on how funds are actually distributed, so being on her bad side greatly limits Denisa, Maria, and their team in terms of financial support.

Regrettably, they didn't get a forensic medical assessment, which would have put them in a much stronger position to take legal action against Camelia. Supposedly, "Tara, Tara' is only ment to support gymnasts that turned senior during the Paris quad (born between 2005 and 2008), at least this...

I'm not sure. Based on some of their interviews, she was living in the dorm in the lead up to Paris. It's obviously not unusual in the context of elite gymnastics, but I would assume most pre-college aged people would rather live at home, if given the opportunity. I'm pretty surprised...

^Yes. Lia is a multi-sport national training center, similar to INSEP/Round Lake, which also provides affordable/subsidized(?) dorm accommodation for national team athletes across multiple Olympic disciplines. I've always found it odd that Sabrina lives there and not with her mom, but it's...

Apparently the 'Voinea National Team' is back training at Lia Manoliu, because this is the facility provided by their club... Their supporters on Facebook are trying to frame the disbandment of the national team as a standard post-Olympic restructuring and are completely dismissing the...

https://www.rtl.fr/programmes/on-refait-le-sport/7900572755-la-gymnaste-melanie-de-jesus-dos-santos-elle-revient-sur-son-echec-aux-jo-de-paris-les-consequences-de-cette-desillusion-son-burn-out-et-sa-vie-aujourd-hui this is the full 11 minute interview She talks about having to cover her 2000$...

Has anyone listened to Melanie's most recent interview? I don't speak French and I couldn't find a transcript of the whole thing. I appreciate the cliffs-notes on Twitter/Reddit, but the parts about her post-Paris financial reality make me a bit confused.