The videos you have been able to see in the previous posts come from a Youtube channel entitled Fizicultura . In addition to the videos embedded on the pages of this blog, you can find the following; they are a fascinating document of the Soviet Union's training regime and show familiar gymnasts in a relatively unfamiliar role. Basic women's gymnastics, 1990 Featuring Svetlana Baitova, Svetlana Kozlova, Irina Viatinina, Elena Abrashitova, Tatiana Gutsu, Oksana Chusovitina, Tatiana Lyssenko, Tatiana Ignatova and Tatiana Toropova. Men's all around, compulsory programme, 1989 Video features Valeri Belenkyi, Dmitri Vorobaev, Valentin Mogilnyi Consultant video editors, Nikolai Andrianov and Alexander Alexandrov Compulsory programme (men) for the 1980 Olympic Games Compulsory programme for Candidate Master of Sport, (women and men) 1981 Features Tatiana Frolova, Elena Polevaya, Tatiana Arzhannikova, Pavel Sut, Vladimir Artemov, Stanislav Sitnik, Artur Ako...
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