Recent content by Sanzhirovka

The president of FRG apparently is admitting the Federation knew about Denisa's complaints quite a while ago, but chose not to do anything in order to not disrupt the training process ahead of worlds: Google T: Original article in Romanian...

Arkaev leaving hurt Russia? Seriously? lol

I think you need to be careful when you are saying the Romanian Gym Federation, because they have new leadership since March 2025.. FRG had elections in March and brought back the old guard with Camelia and Sabrina campaigning heavily for the new president, Ioan Suciu...

I highlighted a bit of your comment for context; I hope you don't mind. First, let me start by agreeing that the author of the opinion above probably did mean what you are presuming, but my point is that they didn't articulate it well enough and I disagree with how they have framed it. Although...

This is simply another person, likely not a coach, conflating abuse and expertise. The problem stems from coaches with very high expertise but who also employ some sort of abuse to force their gymnasts to follow thier expert advice (which is a lack of expertise in psychology, really). In the...

But what exactly do you mean when you say she has “soft knees”. How does that look objectively?

Not gonna lie this looks great

Remind me, because I don't remember that final having anything to do with E scores? I might be able to answer that if you break down what you mean - precisely - by "how it's scored". Because I get the sense that you are asking if my opinion is that fans of the sport deserve to know exactly...

An improvement over what exactly? And where is this call for transparency coming from? From FIG athletes? From federations that feel unjustly scored?

What is the real arugment for more transparency in judging? I mean in term of correct placement of routines. Is there a real concern that gymnasts are not being judged fairly within a single competition? Arguments that transparency make things better for gym nerds carry no water in my opinion...

And in the case of Russia annexing Ukrainian regions, which part exactly is "complicated"?

Well again, the banning from the Olympic Games is, afaik, pretty directly related to violating the Olympic Charter. That is, Russia illegally annexed regions of Ukraine and forcibly subordinated those regions' regional Olympic committees to their own. FIG is a different matter. However, I...

"Should" is carrying a lot of weight here. Russia is a state with a government that controls its citizens with near omnipresent propaganda. And that propaganda includes using the Olympics and using Olympians - even using athletes who are minors - to bring glory to the state. Any AIN medal is...

I might be interesting to compare average deductions for double tucks vs double pikes.

Other than bars, I don't see that Colas is doing anything terribly "difficult too early". Even on bars, the only thing I might find dangerous is so many inbar skills.