Rewriting Russian Gymnastics

Coach Vera Kiryashova speaks of Elena Eremina’s new life as a coach in Saudi Arabia.   Via TASS/vk.com.  Google translate Russian Elena Eremina, winner of silver and bronze at the 2017 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, has moved to Saudi Arabia, where she now works as a coach at one of the local gymnastics clubs. Eremina's personal coach Vera Kiryashova told TASS about this. 💬"Lena has been working in Saudi Arabia since February. She signed a contract with one of the local clubs, where she trains both girls of different ages and adults," Kiryashova said. "She has a work visa, Lena can travel with her gymnasts to competitions and training camps around the world. Of course, she shared her impressions of working there with me. In principle, everything is going well for Lena, despite the fact that there are certain specifics in working with local athletes. She is already planning to bring her gymnasts to Russia, to our training camp in Pushkin." 💬"Arti...

    Eremina in 2016 St Petersburg has a tradition of great gymnastics - from 1980 and 1988 Olympic Champions Alexander Detiatin and Elena Shushunova, to this year's Junior European Champion, Elena Eremina via  World Champion Tatiana Nabiyeva and European beam champion Evgenia Kuznetsova. And we shouldn't forget St Petersburg as a home of great innovation.  Elena Shushunova's half blind change to Markelov was astonishing in its time.  And then, we come to possibly my favourite single gymnastics element - the straight Tkachev, which Nabiyeva performed at the 2010 World Championships. The legacy and heritage continues, and now 14 year old Elena Eremina is practicing the same skill in training.  You can see a video of this at her coach, Vera Kiryashova's Instagram account ( https://instagram.com/p/BGsMgtNnqSk/ ).  Vera and her husband Alexander also coached Tatiana Nabiyeva. Coach Vladimir Zaglada, who has held senior coaching roles in the USA, Russia and ...

   Coach and judge Vera Kiryashova with one of her world champion gymnasts, Tatiana Nabiyeva TASS (Albert Starodubtsev) reports that Russian WAG judge Vera Kiryashova has been cleared of biased judging at last year's World Championships.  The well known judge, also coach to champions Tatiana Nabiyeva and Elena Eremina, stood accused by the Women's Technical Committee of overscoring the beam routines of Maria Kharenkova, Seda Tutkhalyan and Viktoria Komova.   All expenses were reimbursed in respect of the disciplinary hearing (1,000 Swiss Francs). Olympic licenses have already been handed out to judges, and Mrs Kiryashova was denied hers in favour of her compatriot Maria Ulyankina (personal coach to Maria Paseka and Seda Tutkhalyan) pending the result of the disciplinary hearing.  She says that she will not pursue its reinstatement as that would involve denying her colleague the opportunity to judge at the Games.  'I was banned from the Olympics before any i...