Lup ita translates a recent Sports Pa n orama in ter view: Nelli Kim: triple back on floor Nelli Kim at the USSR Display, Wembley, London, 1979. Courtesy of Finyo. She considers herself Belarussian, although she lived in Kazakhstan until 1977 and now resides in Belarus, the US and Switzerland. To be more precise, Nelli Kim has no home in the country of watches, banks and cheese, where she spends many months every year. Yet, her soul is in Belarus, whose colours she defended during the last years of her fabulous gymnastics career. Five time Olympic champion and world champion, she was recently in Minsk to brief Belarussian specialists on the new aspects of the next Code of Points. — The Code of Points will be enacted in 2013. The judges will receive new categories, she explained. I decided to come first to Minsk. To whom do I have to explain the nuances of the new Code other than Belarussian specialists? I’ll ...
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