It is with great sadness that I report here the sudden and completely unexpected death, on 5th October, of our friend Vladimir Zaglada. I send my love and condolences to his daughter, Olesya. My thoughts are with the whole family. Vladimir was born in Lvov, Ukraine, in November 1944. His father was a progressive lawyer of great courage who was known to defend those who challenged the Soviet authorities. Vladimir trained as a sports acrobat under the developing Soviet sports system, working in the same club as Olympic champion Viktor Chukarin. After moving to Moscow, he became a leading coach of women's gymnastics, supporting the development of high level acrobatics. He worked particularly closely with the up and coming young gymnasts of the early 1980s - you can see him at work in the video 'You in Gymnastics'. At the national training centre, Lake Krugloye, he worked with Filatova, Mostepanova, Yurchenko, Arzhannikova, Mukhina and more. Around the mid 1980s Vlad
Yay for Aliya! I missed it :( ws too nervous to go watch it. Hopefully will see it later on.
ReplyDeleteFirst gold for Russia since 2000? wow,
Where do you vote for her?
Congrats to Denis again he was really close to Gold in the vault. Congrats to Paseka for her bronze yesterday! forgot to say that.
:-) I've added a link to 'vote' for you to click on.
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I'm very content for Musty ... I wish Komova were there on the podium too, I was in pain the see her out like that sigh ... hope she makes it on Beam ... Go Russia
ReplyDeleteWhat a great performance by Mustafina. What a great event final today. Vault was a bit of a mess from everyone yesterday but bars was a great fight from several of the girls and Mustafina's routine was flawless. She deserved gold today!
ReplyDeleteSo happy for Mustafina, so devastated for Komova, so not impressed by Douglas' extremely slanted piked Tkatchev.
ReplyDeleteAlso, slightly puzzled as to why Mustafina was wearing the same leo from team qualifications when Komova had a beautiful new one?
I was more puzzled with fact that, during the Floor finals, Aliya come into the event with red uniform and left it with the white one. did she pack both?! 0-0
DeleteThis Gold Medal made my olympics by far...Mustafina has always been my fav gymnast ..she deserves it :-D
ReplyDeleteAnd another bronze today, she has the most medals.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Aliya!! You have the most medals!! You are now my inspiration!
ReplyDeleteI am happy for her, but thought her routine was boring compared to the others.
ReplyDeleteI think you'll appreciate this:
ReplyDeleteFrom ALL of the non-swimmer athletes at these Olympics, Tsarina Aliya is the most decorated, with an unmatched 4 medal count. And I don't think they'll get her on the next days.
So... CHEERS people! Cheers, Aliya! You're golden!
She won medals in every event she competed in, team, AA, bars and floor. If she had gone for the vault final as it turned out she could have done very well. Imagine what she would have done at full fitness.. Her confidence is just coming back too.
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