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
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