Valeria was sitting right next to me in the Olympiski Arena, Moscow, during the first day of the men's and women's event finals at the European Championships. Her enthusiasm was infectious, her English excellent, and we soon got talking. I'm really curious to know what makes gymnastics fans tick, so asked Valeria a few questions. She has some very interesting and well articulated opinions. Valeria, what would you like to say about yourself? I'm 19 years old, live in Moscow, and study tourism management. I love, of course, gym, cinema, travel. )) How did you first become interested in gymnastics? I became interested in gymnastics after watching the 2008 Beijing Olympics - in Russia, unfortunately, gymnastics is shown very rarely on the main channels, with poor commentators, so I was lucky to see it on cable TV, and I fell in love with gymnastics. :)) What is it about the sport that most excites you? I like the ...
Oh God!( on the weekend russia gymnastic team are traveling to Rio.
ReplyDeleteNever thought that i would say or write it, but rn i hate all about Olympic Games, WADA, IAAF , CAS and so on, bcz they killing the spirit of de Coubertin OG, the spirit of clean and fair Olympics without politics!
ReplyDeleteWOW. Some of the provisional measure seem very damning.
ReplyDelete* The IOC will not organise or give patronage to any sports event or meeting in Russia.
* The IOC will not grant any accreditation to any official of the Russian Ministry of Sport or any person implicated in the IP Report for the Games of the XXXI Olympiad Rio 2016.
* The IOC asks all International Olympic Winter Sports Federations to freeze their preparations for major events in Russia, such as World Championships, World Cups or other major international competitions under their responsibility, and to actively look for alternative organisers.
Todd
Vitaly Mutko won't be travelling to Rio.
DeleteOtherwise, I feel really sorry for the gymnasts. It must be almost impossible to train sensibly without knowing where you will even be in less than a week's time.
The chart I saw in the report did not show Gymnastics as one of the sports. SO hopefully that will be a big bonus in the girls favor.
DeleteThe biggest sports federation on that chart was Athletics, which has already issued their ruling. Weightlifting was a close 2nd and I know they were waiting for this report to make their ruling. It then dropped off substantially to the 3rd sport on the list, wrestling.
I think each sports federation should make their own rulings here.
Todd
Vitaly Mutko has been a complete disaster for Russian sports, if he isn't directly involved in this awful doping scandal, most likely he turned a blind eye for it, and now this mess is screwing with the athletes lives and he is just spineless. I heard he met the gymnasts yesterday...at this point I wouldn't even get close to him. Yikes. Russia will take many years to recover from this huge moral damage, and the athletes will suffer most. :(
DeleteI know! They won't get rid of him because he has heavy ties to FIFA and Russia is hosting the next World Cup in 2018. But it is going to drag every other sport down even further because other organizations have made it more than clear they want him gone before they can start cooperating with Russia.
Deleteoh boy… if worse comes to worse I hope Aliya Mustafina could compete individually at the Olympics , question is would she want to , and would Russia let her?
ReplyDeletelol , thanks anonymous for "quoting???" me :P
Deletenew FIG new about Russian ban from Rio, now from president of the FIG Athletes Commission, Jani Tanskanen http://www.fig-gymnastics.com/site/figNews/view?id=1609
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