Rewriting Russian Gymnastics

Interview with RGF President Vasily Titov.  Confirms broad details of competitions to take place next year.  Efforts to clarify FIG/IOC requirements are underway, but there isn’t much communication.   President of the Artistic Gymnastics Federation of the Russian Federation Vasily Titov - about relations with the IOC and FIG, domestic competitions and motivation of athletes under the ban ❓ Are the gymnasts planning any competitions next year? 💬 A very busy schedule of domestic competitions, primarily the March Russian Championship in Sochi. In addition, artistic gymnastics is included in the program of the BRICS Games in Kazan, the Friendship Games in Moscow and Yekaterinburg. Plus a match meeting with the Chinese. The first one was already very successful at the youth level at the end of November in Kazan. There will still be meetings at the level of large national teams ahead. ❓ With the participation of stars like Nikita Nagorny and Angelina Melnikova? 💬 Yes, of cour...

Highlights from an interview with the 1981 and 1985 World Champion, from the RGF’s magazine ‘Gymnastika’.  Yuri died suddenly in April 2023. Are you a children's coach, or do you prefer elite (‘champion coach’). I like working with adults more. It’s easier with them.    After all, this is my level in gymnastics and it’s easier for me to convey it. You are a nanny with children, all the time you are fighting with yourself: it seems that you have already brought your best to the international platform, but you are busy with “cartwheels” and somersaults. Would you have won the AA at the 1984 Olympics? I'm 90 percent sure that I would have won it. It’s impossible to say one hundred percent in sports, but there is no doubt that I could have fought for first place. On his gymnastics home, the Nikolai Tolkachev School of Gymnastics in Vladimir They say that on any platform you can immediately recognize gymnasts from the Vladimir school... This is the technique, cleanliness, chor...

‘Vladimir Putin approved a list of instructions following a meeting of the Presidential Council for the Development of Physical Culture and Sports. These included the creation on Russky Island and in Vladivostok of centers for martial arts, artistic and rhythmic gymnastics, hockey, swimming, boxing, a tennis academy and an athletics arena as part of a federal sports and training center for training Russian national teams. 💬 For a country of the size of Russia, it is important that in different regions there are educational and training centers that correspond to the most modern level of development of sports, including the highest achievements. The Far East needs such a center. We have repeatedly discussed the prospect of its creation, including within the framework of the Presidential Sports Council. I think this is very correct and timely,” Titov told Match TV. 💬We raised the issue of creating a base there for a very long time. This is a part of Russia where there are few gymnastic...

Russia is to build new sports complexes in the far east of the country, says RGF President Vasily Titov following a meeting of the Presidential Council for the Development of Physical Culture & Sports.     The plans to create two new national training centres has been signed off by President Putin.     The locations, Vladivostok and Russky Island, both have a wider strategic importance for Russia in building relations with China. Via Match TV/Google ‘The President of the Russian Artistic Gymnastics Federation (FSGR) Vasily Titov told Match TV that he considers the decision to build sports training centers for Russian national teams in the Far East correct and timely. Earlier, Vladimir Putin approved a list of instructions following a meeting of the Presidential Council for the Development of Physical Culture and Sports. These included the creation on Russky Island and in Vladivostok of centers for martial arts, artistic and rhythmic gymnastics, hockey, swimming, ...