Sports: The Gymnastics thread - Page 3

Alexz

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Originally posted by Yarotska

Musty's twists are much worse, though.

They are the same and that's Mustafa's ONLY form problem. And she is actually artistic.

Energy

I am still waiting on someone to pull a roundoff,half on,front 2 1/2 on vault. I would just...

Yarotska

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Originally posted by Alexz

They are the same and that's Mustafa's ONLY form problem. And she is actually artistic.

Not even close.

Just about every Russian and Russian trained athlete has bent kneed taps, including Mustafina. Thank goodness she got rid of that nasty Tkachev, though. Even she knew it was busted.

Nastia's beam and vault were flawlessly executed in her peak and her handstand positions were unmatched except maybe by a 2010 Rebecca Bross.

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Originally posted by Energy

I am still waiting on someone to pull a roundoff,half on,front 2 1/2 on vault. I would just...

It's been done many times on the men's side. On the WAG side, we're still waiting on a 1/2 on front 2/1 off.

Alexz

Nastia's legs are hideous and they always distracted me from her actual form. It's not her fault she's so oddly shaped with those giant feet but it's still a distraction.

Energy

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Originally posted by Alexz

Nastia's legs are hideous and they always distracted me from her actual form. It's not her fault she's so oddly shaped with those giant feet but it's still a distraction.

Lol Nastia was great though. Her height and lines made her look very graceful, and she was a ballerina before. She added artistry alot of American Girls didn't have that quad. Her bars dismount though

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I need you all to get back in here

Praise Mariallah

I STILL

@ Kim ****ing Zmeskal being in the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame, but not Khorkina or Gogean. I mean

Hopefully as soon as she becomes eligible, Catalina Ponor gets in.

Praise Mariallah

Alexz, how do you feel about Alexandrov being fired as head coach for the Russian team?

Apparently the Rodionenko's are fuming over the fact that everyone on the team flubbed except for Aliya, who Alexandrov personally trains. Here's Valentina Rodionenko's interview from today:

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Head coordinator Valentina Rodionenko commented on Alexander Alexandrov’s dismissal specially for “Sovietski Sport”.

- Alexandrov hasn’t been fired. You don’t need to make up things like that. We have been assigning the duties. When we dismissed Leonid Arkaev, it was decided that the team’s coach doesn’t have the right to be a personal coach at the same time. Alexander Sergueievich combined both functions, but it was against the rule. Now we have eliminated this.

- In an interview with “Sovietski Sport”, Alexander Alexandrovich said that he had been blamed for working poorly. Do you personally think that he didn’t work well? Can you say so if Mustafina is the most decorated Russian athlete at the London Olympics?

- Exactly. I have been blamed for having said unpleasant things about Aliya Mustafina. It’s true. I said good and bad things about her. But above all it was the truth. For instance, I said that her mood changes rapidly. Today Aliya wants to train, tomorrow she doesn’t want to. Aliya herself acknowledges she’s unpredictable. Not only for the coaches, but for herself. So let's be objective and targeted. Aliya, (and I am very happy about that), become bars Olympic champion and won four medals in a very difficult situation. But where were the rest? What’s the reason for the gymnasts’ injuries, why did Viktoria Komova, after having won the Americans in the qualifying competition, look paler and paler every day, as if she had disappeared? Who is to blame for the failure of her functional preparation?

- Аlеxandrov? What for?

- Because when Aliya was in a bad mood, he was the same. I mean that if Aliya didn’t train, the national team didn’t train. This explains the injuries and Komova’s insufficient preparation.

- The gymnasts worked with their personal coach even if Alexandrov was not in the gym. What prevented them to continue training?

- They all need corrections, advice from the head coach. Otherwise, what does he do? If we think that personal coaches can solve everything, the head coach is not necessary, he is redundant. For those four years when Alexandrov combined his work as personal coach and as head coach, there were only problems, and all suffered from the situation. Marina Nazarova, Ksenia Afanasieva’s coach, said when her gymnast became World Champion on floor: 'At last I have been able to prove everything to him! He has been so harsh on this girl…'.