Rewriting Russian Gymnastics

Flashback to 1980 ... 'Kalinka' playing and a little girl, Elena Naimushina, is performing faultlessly on the floor ... Here is Elena, from Siberia, with her coach Valentin Shevchuk. The pictures are from this quarter's edition of 'Gymnastika' magazine, which you can download at the redesigned RGF website at www .sportgymrus .ru. The matchless Elena Naimushina ... Up first for the Soviet team on floor at the 1980 Olympics -  http://youtu.be/E9c5fEb1yvg

Further exploration has uncovered these three Soviet produced films on the gymnastics competitions at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. Men's competition, part 1 There is a running commentary of the exercises featuring Alexander Detiatin, Nikolai Andrianov, Alexander Tkachev, Roland Brueckner, Michael Nikolay, the legendary Zoltan Magyar on the pommels, Danut Grecu, Stojan Delchev (double salto forward with half turn dismount off rings). Men's competition, part 2 Features an early Cuban effort at a handspring double front vault and a slow motion technical analysis of Nikolai Andrianov's Tsukahara vault, Tkachev's winning parallel bars routine including a slow motion section on the piked forward somersault with straddle, Tkachev's 10 scoring high bar routine (beautiful) including slow motion analysis of the Tkachev release element, Kovacs, Delchev, Arroya's one armed work. Dismount elements by Andrianov, Detiatin. Delchev's gold medal winning routine. ...