Rewriting Russian Gymnastics

Aliya Mustafina at a recent event to celebrate Gymnastics Day in Moscow.  Courtesy RGF. Via Sports Express : http://www.sport-express.ru/velena/reviews/50647/ This is a summary/paraphrase of the original interview. - It seems to me that you have matured greatly since ... - Rather, I have just learned to work independently, without relying on anyone.  - To be left without a coach in a sport like gymnastics, is not the simplest test for an athlete. - First it really was very hard. I could not force myself to work and for a long time was unsettled. - In a recent interview, you said: "you need to give yourself to this sport, and not perceive it as servitude and abuse". Do you think that way? - Yes. It was just a year ago. I started to train every day and thought: why do I need it? Everything hurts, everything goes wrong. This went on until I had the surgery to clean my joint. It was then that I realized a simple thing: If you want to continue to train and serve, you just have...

  This great video of Aliya Mustafina was transmitted by Transworld Sport just before the Antwerp World Championships.  'She is a gymnast with a capital 'G', says coach Raisa Ganina.  Ksenia Afanasyeva also features. http://youtu.be/LGaVK-3fM80

Personal and national coaches working together : Ksenia Afansyeva's personal coach, Marina Nazarova, celebrates with  Russia's successful women's team at the London Olympics, with bars coach (now team coach)  Evgeny Grebyonkin The RGF has published its full team list again.  It has already been released once, and you can find a review of the gymnasts of the senior men's and women's teams here . For now, however, I wanted to publish in English the list of the national coaches of the senior team.  I will look at the coaches of the junior and youth teams in another post. This list is clearly an official document, bearing the stamp of the RGF and the signatures of several dignitaries, Andrei Rodionenko included, but it most likely will change over the coming months.  It may well be produced more for administrative purposes than for public consumption, so read with caution.  There is some meaty information all the same.  What may be of note is that...