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 course. There is n

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, choreograp

‘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, boxing, a tennis ac

 By Ilidar Satdinov and Pavel Levkovich for MatchTV via Google translate A Russian athlete who agrees to compete at the Olympic Games in Paris in a neutral status will have to look for funds to prepare for the competition himself, said Vasily Titov, president of the Russian Artistic Gymnastics Federation. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on December 8 that it will allow Russian and Belarusian athletes who have successfully qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics in individual neutral status. In Paris, Russian and Belarusian athletes can only compete without the flag, anthem and other national symbols. The IOC banned the participation of athletes associated with security forces or who expressed support for the CBO. 💬 I will not evaluate the IOC’s decision now. At the Olympic meeting of the ROC (Russian Olympic Committee), we agreed that the executive committee would evaluate all legal aspects of the athlete signing a declaration and a request for neutrality status. An

The latest interview with World and Olympic Champion with Nikita Nagorny.  He challenges the role of the IOC in the removal of Russian athletes from the Games and suggests that new structures for the perpetuation of international sport may be needed.   “The IOC MANAGEMENT SHOULD PRESERVE OLYMPISM AND NOT INTERFERE WITH POLITICS FOR PERSONAL GAIN.” INTERVIEW WITH NIKITA NAGORNY Nikita Nagorny talks about the relationship between Russia and the IOC, as well as about his career in gymnastics and outside of sports. Olympic champion in artistic gymnastics Nikita Nagorny, in an interview with Match TV, spoke about the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to allow Russians to participate in the 2024 Olympic Games, performances without a flag and anthem, the desire to have more competitions for gymnasts, the words of Umar Kremlev about Thomas’s departure Bach and Russia's rivalry with China and Japan. — How do you evaluate the latest decision of the IOC on the admission of

The head of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), Stanislav Pozdnyakov, said that the organization has completely stopped funding neutral athletes. The reason was previously received recommendations from the International Olympic Committee (IOC). 💰"It was stated that athletes must refuse the flag, the anthem, and the National Olympic Committee. According to the IOC decision, which we consider illegitimate, it is stated that any athlete who receives the support of the ROC will violate the recommendations. For the same reason Among the athletes who will receive support from the ROC, there are no neutralized athletes. The ROC has completely stopped funding neutralized athletes," Pozdnyakov told reporters. Via Rsport :  https://rsport.ria.ru/20231215/finansirovanie-1916027465.html

This will likely make it difficult for Russia to qualify individual neutral athletes for the Olympics. ‘The General Assembly of European Gymnastics has voted against allowing athletes and officials from Russia and Belarus to return to official European Gymnastics competitions from 1 January 2024 onwards, thus not following the FIG decision.’ Via the UEG on Twitter

The coach of Chinese gymnasts believes that Paseka and Nabieva made the team stronger Russians worked as coaches in the Chinese women's artistic gymnastics team from October 2022 to August 2023 KAZAN, November 22. /TASS/. Russian artistic gymnastics world champions Maria Paseka and Tatyana Nabieva, who worked as coaches with the Chinese women's team, made the team even stronger. This opinion was expressed to TASS by the coach of the Chinese team, Zhou Shiping, during a match between the junior artistic gymnastics teams of Russia and China in Kazan. In October 2022, Paseka and Nabieva left for China to work with the country’s women’s national team. In August, after the expiration of the contract with the Chinese Gymnastics Association, they returned to Russia. “Paseka and Nabieva worked very friendly together with our Chinese coaches. They helped our athletes a lot. The gymnast who worked with Nabieva became first at the World Youth Championships in the balance beam exercise. Sh