2023 Russian Cup

[MaryClare]

That she had a very entitled attitude and was often rude to the German coaches

 

[FrolovasDoubleLayout]

…because her longevity can be largely attributed to her being able to compete for a country that is no longer under the Russian Empire/Soviet rule

I think her longevity is because she is the last vestige of Soviet experiments in athletic genetic/drug manipulation. She grows back broken tendons like it’s nothing. I’d love to see what her DNA makeup looks like.

 

[Hatsumomo]

Well, also because she’s not needing to do the level of gymnastics generally expected out of the top 5 teams just to make it onto the World and Olympic teams.

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

There is that, but equally she was legitimately top 10 in the world on an event, well past her 40th birthday. While she almost certainly wouldn’t have been taken as a vault specialist for any top 5 team in eg Rio, the only team who couldn’t have used her score was the US. And she was a better vaulter than anyone GB, Japan or arguably China brought that year. It’s really only the last 4 years max that she stopped being competitive.

 

[Sasha]

The first rule of gymnastics fandom: the longer someone has been around, the more we tend to forgive their formies.

 

[YurchenkoLoop]

I think this is my favorite of Chuso’s floor



she was far more engaged in this routine than in her '91 routine when she won gold. Her Shushunova is sky high and so is that double pike

 

[CameliasFingerpaint]

Chuso was the Jade Carey of the early 90s

 

[hmmmm]

Is part of her decision to continue not knowing what else to actually do with her life besides gymnastics?

 

[Passion]

She said she’ll continue as long as her body allows her to, because why not?

Why does she need to do anything else with her life besides gymnastics? She’s married, she’s raised a child to adulthood, she’s coached, she’s traveled all over the world. What else does she need to do? Sport is her career. When she stops competing she’ll most likely keep coaching and doing clinics.

 

[Yarotska]

Is part of her decision to continue not knowing what else to actually do with her life besides gymnastics?

I mean, the same could be said for the supervisor at a department store that’s been with the company for 23 years. At least she’s enjoying herself.

 

[Denn]

I don’t think I remembered that she ever did a full-in (vs. half in/half out or even more of a full-out in some way)

 

[Rich]

from gymternet
All-Around Final Results

Rank	Athlete	District	VT	UB	BB	FX	AA
1	Viktoria Listunova	Moscow	14.050	14.850	14.350	13.600	56.850
2	Leila Vasilieva	Central	13.650	14.350	13.700	13.900	55.600
3	Zlata Osokina	Northwestern	13.400	14.150	13.650	13.600	54.800
4	Diana Kustova	Moscow	13.350	14.950	12.800	13.400	54.500
5	Angelina Melnikova	Central	13.950	14.650	12.050	13.050	53.700
6	Arina Semukhina	Central	13.750	14.200	12.600	13.150	53.700
7	Alyona Glotova	Central	13.100	14.550	12.250	13.750	53.650
8	Anna Kalmykova	Moscow	13.200	13.450	12.650	14.050	53.350
9	Elizaveta Us	Southern	13.200	13.300	13.050	13.100	52.650
10	Uliana Perebinosova	Moscow	13.700	14.750	11.250	12.300	52.000

Vault Final Results

Rank	Athlete	District	Vault 1	Vault 2	Average
1	Angelina Melnikova	Central	14.233	13.066	13.649
2	Alina Shklokova	Northwestern	13.800	13.366	13.583
3	Viktoria Listunova	Moscow	14.033	13.033	13.533

Bars Final Results

Rank	Athlete	District	Total
1	Viktoria Listunova	Moscow	15.133
2	Diana Kustova	Moscow	14.933
3	Uliana Perebinosova	Moscow	14.866
Beam Final Results

Rank	Athlete	District	Total
1	Viktoria Listunova	Moscow	14.800
2	Zlata Osokina	Northwestern	13.866
3	Ekaterina Andreeva	Volga	13.300

Floor Final Results

Rank	Athlete	District	Total
1	Viktoria Listunova	Moscow	14.700
2	Angelina Melnikova	Central	14.066
3	Zlata Osokina	Northwestern	13.700
Qualification Results

Rank	Athlete	District	VT	UB	BB	FX	AA
1	Angelina Melnikova	Central	14.150	14.550	14.350	14.100	57.150
2	Diana Kustova	Moscow	13.200	14.800	13.750	13.500	55.250
3	Viktoria Listunova	Moscow	13.950	13.850	12.800	14.550	55.150
4	Uliana Perebinosova	Moscow	13.300	14.700	12.600	13.100	53.700
5	Alyona Glotova	Central	13.050	14.550	13.350	12.500	53.45

 

[navyblue]

Her amplitude, technique, and massive D-score on beam is such that she certainly could beat Simone – but she hasn’t really shown herself to be the paragon of consistency on this apparatus especially, so I wouldn’t place a bet on it.

Comparing this routine to Simone’s day 1 routine, I have Simone ahead by 7 tenths (+0.8 on E, -0.1 on D). That said, it wouldn’t be impossible for Simone to throw away her edge with one of her old runaway landing errors, or for Listunova to catch up by avoiding some of the big wobbles and pause deductions.

 

[flappergirl]

This choreography was perfect for Chusovitina.

 

[FrolovasDoubleLayout]

When she was Jr and a young Sr, she showed promise artistically. I remember watching a video of her beam routine and now I think that I have not seen an athlete regress artistically as much.

She showed that she can use her body very well but now…not even a style that she can call her own - just a paint-with-numbers type of choreography.

 

[MaryClare]

Young Chusovitina is proof that poor dance is absolutely a coaching choice.

Next year is a significant one for Chuso. It’s the 40th anniversary of her first documented competition. Age 9, she competed in the children’s division of the sports schools championship of Uzbekistan.

 

[lovegymnasts]

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