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Alexei Nemov interview/International Women's Day

On the occasion of International Women's Day the Russian Gymnastics Federation kindly presented an English language interview with 2000 Olympic All Around Champion Alexei Nemov, now Vice President of the Federation and organiser of his own gymnastics show. He has the ambition of opening his own gymnastics school and is also president of the Moscow Fitness Festival.

Nemov shares many of his thoughts about the importance of family (with his wife Galina he has three sons, Evgenyi (19 years old), Alexei and Dmitri (the youngest, 18 months)), the relationship between sport, fitness and health and the importance of a healthy diet. He even provides us with his own tasty salad suggestion! Alexei's two eldest children aren't involved in elite sport, although he seems to think that Dmitri may be a budding gymnast! However, he does suggest that his two elder boys like to keep fit and practice sport for fun.

Like Rodionenko, he regrets the diminishing sports infrastructure in Russia and explains that everyday obstacles to training such as finding a local gym often prevent youngsters from developing interests in sport.

Well, you can just as easily read the interview yourself ... enjoy!

The interview comes from Novyi Isvestia.

NOTE : I'm not sure if Evgenyi can really be 19 - this would make Alexei a father at the age of 14, I think ... some mistake, surely. :-)

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  1. Evgeny is Galina's son from her first marriage, whom Nemov adopted when he married Galina. Remember, Galina is five years older than Nemov and Russians tend to marry young.

    Evgeny had some unfortunate accident with a motorized scooter a few years ago and it resulted in quite a bit of memory loss.

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  2. Thanks very much for the information! You know Nemov's background very well ;-)

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