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TV news clip about the AIN withdrawal.  I don’t know what is being said, but just look at the sad faces.   It looks as though they recruited Nagorny to front this.

I don’t for a minute believe that the gymnasts chose this for themselves.


https://vk.com/video-4153493_456255896?access_key=8e42a914d38bbd70af


Rodionenko presided over this meeting.  He looks close to tears at times - imagine as an octogenarian having your life’s work destroyed at one sweep.  We see Marinov and Listunova speaking, Polyashov present too.  Some of the gymnasts present I don’t recognise.  Melnikova looks devastated as does Roschina.  Andreeva, so young, doesn’t know what’s happened.  


FIG, are you going to make a statement?  


PS - This is the FIG statement, which I admit I saw, but absent mindedly missed.  The main thing is to look out for further statements after the Exec meeting early next month.  




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  1. Dave9 April 2025 at 07:52

    Your "blame the State" mentality is well known. But you're wrong, the gymnasts were asked and voted not to attend unless everybody was included. And if you think it's just gymnastics, think again. Those athletes are being shitted on by you and your "State"

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    1. Anonymous9 April 2025 at 08:10

      Well, I guess that if I were Russian and paid by the Government, and they asked me to do something, I would do it!
      We are being a bit naive here. The big question is, why drag politics into sport? But then again, that began with the Soviet Union …
      and then the States.
      The whole world is in a fug, but I still think the gymnasts would rather be competing and are being bullied.

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  2. Dave9 April 2025 at 12:28

    If any other country had been given these same terms from the special committee, the result would have been the same. Nobody would willingly break up a team

    The Soviet Union did not "drag politics into sport", that began with the olympics in Berlin, then the universal boycott of apartheid South Africa

    The Federation is backing them, as they should. The Federation is looking after its athletes and advising them to stick together, as it should. They are a team and should be allowed to compete as one

    They gave the special committee a chance to prove that they were impartial. The committee failed them

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  3. Anonymous10 April 2025 at 03:57

    I would go back further to none other than the creation of the modern Olympics in 1896. Sportspeople and politicians coming together to achieve something wonderful. They often do, ya know 😉

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  4. Anonymous10 April 2025 at 04:28

    Sad faces for the TV. But they are hardly likely to film them enjoying a holiday, walking their dog in a park or singing to tik tok. They are showing the athletes as the innocent victims that they are.

    You are correct, they are being bullied. But not by the RGF

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