T his, my second graphic, needs quite a bit of tweaking that I don’t have time to do at present. For example, the sport as a whole should sit centre top. There needs to be a depiction of grass roots of the sport, including the privately run, participatory sector, as well as the local, regional and national teams as seniors and juniors. I have a question : do CSKA, Dynamo etc even exist under these names today? The gyms have been refurbished and, in line with the World Gymnastics rules for the past years, show no evidence of government or army support. This is a touch of airbrushing, I think, as Russia couldn’t simply close those enormous organisations down, and still have a functioning gymnastics machine … could they? The Premiere League, Titans, social media income and other TV shows generate income for the gymnasts and must provide a return on state à nd or corporate investment , in some way. The streaming platforms for gymnastics are run directly by the regions; Match TV is by far th...
I've been playing with Copilot for some of my blog content, with varying degrees of success. I like infographics but still haven't got the knack of them. But I thought, in view of the unprecedented nature of the various lockdowns, bans and sanctions going on - effectively the isolation of Russia from world gymnastics - that it would be worth recording some of what I have observed happening in terms of the sport's management and survival. There are lots of things that need to be altered. Please do comment. Here is the first infographic, along with a short commentary by me. There are two infographics, I'll put them in separate posts. I asked Copilot to produce a graphic mapping Russia’s development of gymnastics since the IOC/World Gymnastics ‘lockdown’, using data I provided to them. Sports is an ever-growing sector of the world economy, and during the ban Russia has exploited - and, hopefully, improved its popularity by developing television and live ...