Rewriting Russian Gymnastics

⚡️Vasily Titov re-elected to the International Gymnastics Federation Executive Committee ❗️The vote took place at the organization's congress in Doha. "Despite the difficult political situation, we did not stop cooperating with the International Gymnastics Federation, actively interacted with it and defended the interests of our athletes," Titov said. "We did everything to ensure that Russia's voice was heard. My re-election is not the result of my efforts alone." "This is an understanding in the world that world gymnastics is impossible without Russia, Russia must be present in the main governing body of the International Gymnastics Federation," the agency's interlocutor noted. "Yes, the elections took place in difficult political conditions in the world, but everything possible was done to ensure that they had the least impact on the election results." 🌐 TASS

The President of the Russian Gymnastics Federation, Oleg Belozerov, said that the organization plans to develop club tournaments and gymnastics leagues in the country. “A total of 791 thousand people are involved in gymnastics. The development of gymnastics is of historical significance for our country. Because gymnastics training is basic for almost all sports. Gymnastics contributes to the harmonious development of a person” “The calendar of our domestic competitions will be further developed. We will continue to develop competition formats, such as club competitions, and even gymnastics leagues may appear” “But I consider the key issues to be increasing the availability of gymnastics sports for the population, so that almost everyone who wants to can have the opportunity to do it either for a fee or for free, namely to create such conditions, and also to participate in competitions.” 🌐 MatchTV! https://vk.cc/cCNAU3

Translated from R Sport.  What the President says about relations with the FIG and IOC is echoed by Nagorny in another short interview.  Nagorny wants there to be international competitions with Russian gymnasts - but this doesn’t account for the sanctions.  Given his work as a TV/online producer he may be looking for a form of cultural exchange that sidesteps the usual structures.  But I wouldn’t bet on it happening … Now read on, via Rsport: Oleg Belozerov, head of Russian Railways, who was elected president of the Russian Gymnastics Federation, said that the unification of gymnastics federations of countries was the most important element for direct interaction with the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC). 🙏"I would like to thank all the participants of today's conference for electing me president of the Russian Gymnastics Federation: the Ministry of Sports, the Russian Olympic Committee, and delegates. The most important

Presidium of the Russian Gymnastics Federation 🇷🇺 Artistic gymnastics: Vasily Titov (First Vice President), Nikita Nagorny (Vice President), Andrey Rodionenko, Dmitry Andreev, Alexander Klochkov, Anton Krapivin. Rhythmic gymnastics: Anastasia Tatareva (Vice President), Olga Kapranova (Vice President), Yana Lukonina, Victoria Anikina, Raisa Terekhova and Dmitry Golovin. Trampoline jumping: Nikolay Makarov (Vice President), Vladislav Skakun, Irina Karavaeva, Anatoly Kovarsky, Alexey Ryzhkov and Elena Fedorenchik. Sports aerobics: Vladislav Oskner (Vice President), Svetlana Perevalova and Svetlana Lukina. Sports acrobatics: Irina Nikitina (vice-president), Teimuraz Gurgenidze and Dmitry Vinnikov. ❗Oleg Belozerov, the president of the Russian Gymnastics Federation elected on October 1, is also a member of the presidium.

Some major shifts in the way gymnastics is being managed in Russia, and in the personnel.  Irina Viner has resigned as President of the Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation. A decision has been made to merge the RGF, the Russian Trampoline Federation, the Russian Sports Acrobatics Federation, the All-Russian Federation of Sports Aerobics, and the All-Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation into a single RGF. The new President of the RGF will be Oleg Belozyorev, CEO and Chairman of the Board of JSC Russian Railways.  He was the only candidate standing at the election.   Nikita Nagorny has been made Vice President.  He says: ‘I have the honor of becoming the vice-president of the Federation and being responsible for the direction of artistic gymnastics in our country!’ Nagorny says he won’t retire from competition for the time being, despite announcements from Valentina Rodionenko to the contrary.   I’m unsure what the implications are, but both Nagorny and Belozyorev have been sanction

I’ve reached a time in my life when it’s more important to watch the birds and listen to my nephews and nieces laughing than it is to write about Russian gymnastics.  I  have a couple of ‘wrap ups’ in the pipeline but that’s all, folks. The Olympics just aren’t the Olympics without the Russians, at least for me.  I wish Russia would put their energy into great sport instead of military endeavours.  I’m no fan of the IOC and the Russian gymnasts did a lot of good for peace and friendship over about 70 years.  But Russia’s leaders are letting their people down.   I’ll continue to walk alongside Angelina Melnikova and will post occasional updates of her work and life on my RRG Facebook page.  She is remarkable.   I hope that Russia’s young gymnasts can find a way to continue what is essentially their livelihood, if necessary by moving overseas.  It would be great if some of them could study abroad. I’m unfollowing Nagorny.  He walked with a swagger round the competition hall at Russia Cup