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Leonid Arkayev's new floor exercise

View pictures of Leonid Arkayev, former chief of Russian Gymnastics, on the floor here

He has kept his youthful looks and seems very happy in Saransk.

More seriously, he did present some important papers at the gymnastics masterclasses this weekend as part of the Russia - Country of Sports conference held at the International Olympic University in Saransk, Leonid's home town where he is now President of the regional gymnastics association and chief coach of his own gymnastics facility (he says he has always had more than one job and couldn't be happy with less).  This was  an important event attended by most prominent people in Russian sport including Valeryi Mutko, Russian Minister for Sports, and Technical Director for Russian Gymnastics, Andrei Rodionenko.

You can find an English language translation of the programme here, links to information at the Russian Federation's site here, and a link to various photograph galleries of the conference here.

When I find the pictures of Rodionenko's (Valentina) high bar, I'll let you know.

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