In an interview with Alexander Alexandrov in this month's (January/February) edition of International Gymnast magazine, the former head coach of Russian WAG makes it clear that his opinions of the problems of Russian gymnastics have remained the same since his August conversation with RRG. Alexandrov looks ahead to his job in Rio and elsewhere in Brazil, and discusses some of the prospects; I'll leave that to the excellent Brazil gym blogs to cover. However, despite his current commitment as Head of the Brazil WAG team, he takes pains to comment on the somewhat dismal state of affairs on the Russia WAG team. At one point he goes so far as to say 'I personally believe that there should be separate programs for the development and growth of the sport for the entire country, and these programs should be different. This in my opinion will help to develop and raise the 'masses' and will help with the retention problem in gymnastics. One o...
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