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Bars coach Evgeny Grebenkin appointed as Russian WAG Head coach/Rodionenko makes a statement

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Evgeny Grebenkin.  Courtesy RGF


Sovietski Sport has now announced that the council of the Russian Gymnastics Federation has appointed bars coach Evgeny Grebenkin as head coach of the WAG team.

Valentina Rodionenko made the following statement :

"On Monday took place the Coaches’ board of the national team. The decision was made to relieve Alexander Alexandrov of his duties as head coach of the Russian team.
 
This decision was made because he is Aliya Mustafina’s personal coach. He’ll remain Aliya’s personal coach. He’ll be replaced by Yevgeny Anatolevich Grebenkin. We cannot have someone as head coach and as personal coach.  [Aleksandrov] bet on his pupil. We put up with this during a certain time. Then all the coaches’ group rebelled. The medals are the result of a group’s work. Nobody understands why this is associated to a single individual. Gymnastics is not like athletics, where technique is taught by one coach and then the athlete runs. We have four events and each event has a specialist. The head coach has to organize work. Not to teach, because this is done by other people, but to organize. And the organization failed, - said Valentina Rodionenko."
44 year old Grebenkin from Volzhski has been the specialist bars coach for the Russian team this quad, and led the Russian team to a position of prominence on this apparatus, where they rival the Chinese for number one spot.  I very much hope he can make a success of his newly expanded responsibilities and bring Russia to a similar point in the all around and team stakes.

With thanks to Lupita for the link, and the rapid translation!!
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  1. M24 September 2012 at 21:01

    Well I am glad it is a coach I really like :) Good for Grebenkin, hope he will be able to do well. Hopefully now we can stop hearing griping from any other coach about the head coach and everyone just does their job.

    Since he is head coach, Russia will need a new bars coach then, wouldn't they? I wonder who that will be.

    I won't even bother with Valentina's comments about the organization failed. They won 8 medals at Olympics and if Valentina and her husband would stop undermining the head coach, it will also help a lot.

    Good luck to Grebenkin, the girls seem to like him a lot so that is good.

    Now I hope Alexandrov will be able to stay after December 30th and continue being Aliya's coach.

    No more hostilities between coaches, they all need to work together.

    Thanks Lupita for the translation and thanks for the quick post.

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  2. Jackson24 September 2012 at 22:36

    I highly doubt Alexandrov is really going to stay in this organization after being demoted to personal coach and stabbed in the back by many of them. The only reason he would probably stay is for the sake of Aliya's career, but there is going to be a lot of bad blood around if he does and it could potentially even be worse for Aliya if he did.

    Either way, it sucks for Aliya because it's clear that a lot of the people overseeing the Russian team do not want her to succeed, and even moreso now after she completely humilited them by coming away as the most successful gymnast after they all paraded around Komova and Grishina as the new queens of Russian gymnastics. Apparently she posted "emptiness, no emotion, no thoughts, nothing" to her VK. So sad.

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    1. Anonymous6 October 2012 at 12:44

      Prejudice? In Russia Aliya is in a minority group and this does not seem to be celebrated at all as we have with Douglas. In fact nothing is said. Sadly, that could be not only because of fear of prejudice (even outside Russia as from her name Russians would understand her ethnic minority). But I have also seem comments on Russian sites from her own ethinic group calling her a disgrace. Getting it from both ends must really suck. But I wonder if this person could be prejudice, it seems she really wants to toss Aliya out and what kind of insanity is that when she has brought so much success?

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  3. M24 September 2012 at 23:06

    Hey Elizabeth and Lupita, when you have time, could you translate this interview with Valentina?

    She is talking about the dismissal of Alexandrov from his post.

    http://www.sovsport.ru/news/text-item/553986

    Thanks

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  4. Anonymous26 September 2012 at 11:14

    I like Yevgeny Grebyonkin, I think he and Aliya have a great rapport, and he did an amazing job for Russia UB work.
    I said this before, I would have prefer that Alexander kept his head coach position and Grebyonkin to be Aliya's personal coach (actually, in the Russia Gymnastic official page, you can read, on Aliya profile "Coach: National Team Coaches" which makes Grebyonkin one of her personal coaches 0_0) .
    Also, since the reason for Alexandrov dismissal is that the head coach can't have a single gymnast under his wing, does this mean that Ekaterina Baturina doesn't have a personal coach anymore??
    on different note it seems that Grishina left her coach and will be training with Irina Razumovskaya, wonder if this is a result of the Olympics or the recent news.

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