Rodionenko: still no final roster for BRICS

The composition of the Russian team at BRICS will be decided early next week. If the competition is strong enough, Dalaloyan, Nagorny and Belyavski will compete, Valentina Rodionenko has said to Match TV.

There is still no final roster of teams competing at the BRICS games, which begin in two weeks.

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Elena Produnova - interview

The gymnastics group at VK.com has published an interview with 2000 Olympian, Elena Produnova. Thanks for their permission to provide an edit of it here. People will remember Elena in particular for two reasons: her original vault that no one else has been able to emulate; and her own special brand of powerful acrobatics, energetic temperament and musical flow, a heady mixture that today's gymnasts find impossible to match. Recently there have been some photographs of Elena working in a gym. Although she has always said that she wouldn't have a coaching career, it seems that now she is a coach at a gym in Nalchik, a town in the very south of the Russian Federation, in the foothills of the Caucasian mountains, in the republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. The first question, tell us how you ended up in Nalchik? - Nalchik came up at the right time, in terms of my life circumstances. Through my previous work I had a very good friend - head of the sports department of the inter-reg

Oksana Omelianchik - the importance of choreography

Photo source : http://www.tomtheobald.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=330 I came across this journal article by joint World Champion 1985, Oksana Omelianchik. Oksana is a senior judge at major FIG competitions under her married name of Oksana Omelianchik-Ziurkalova. She analyses eight floor routines of the Ukrainian women gymnasts, and draws conclusions regarding the composition of floor routines, and the importance of choreography in floor exercise. I like her review of the importance of choreography to the sport: 'In choreographic training of female gymnasts aesthetic, physical and educational tasks are solved. Aesthetic tasks mean cultivation of musical sense and horizon, training of movement under music; physical – mean development of coordination, flexibility, plasticity, expressiveness and accuracy of movements; educational tasks mean psychological relaxation, cultivation of ability to feel, think, remember and estimate culture of movements [3, 4, 10]. Choreogr

Sergei Starkin to coach Aliya Mustafina - Vladimir Zaglada answers some questions

Fan art - from Aliya Mustafina's fan page on VK.com We first read the news on RSport (thank you Lifje on Gymfever) - Aliya has a new coach, Sergei Starkin. Sergei is already well known - as coach to World Champion Denis Ablyazin and some other senior MAG gymnasts on the national team. Source - http://m.rsport.ru/artist_gym/20141216/795355013.html The first question on people's lips - 'can a men's coach train a female gymnast?' will best be answered over the coming two years. But we already have a historical precedent for greatness: Alexander Alexandrov, iconic coach to countless champions, including Aliya herself, found his spurs as coach to 1983 and 1987 World Champion, the Mozart of gymnastics, Dmitri Bilozerchev. The second question - will Raisa Ganina continue to be involved in Aliya's career? - well, we have to wait and see. I personally hope so - considering Ganina's skillful interpretation of the Code and her outstanding work in enhancing Aliya&

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