UPDATE:
Andy Thornton has posted some detailed analysis on the future of the team, as well, on American Gymnast:
Alexander Alexandrov was the head coach for the teams that many would consider to be the most dominant in women’s gymnastics history – the 1989 and 1991 world championship and 1992 Olympic gold medal teams from the Soviet Union. He coached gymnasts like Svetlana Boguinskaya, Natalia Laschenova, Tatiana Lysenko, Tatiana Gutsu, and even recently retired Oksana Chusovitina back when they set a standard for the sport that some would argue has never been reached again. That era is exactly the period of gymnastics many of us think of when we refer to the “good ole’ days,” when the sport centered around beauty, innovation, and originality – and the gymnasts were actually rewarded for it. …
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Blythe on her new Gymnastics Examiner blog posted some commentary and highlight routines.
Click PLAY or watch Ekaterina Kurbatova on Bars. (Tkachev > Pak > Khorkina II directly connected.)
click through for more – A few thoughts on the Russian Cup
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That was an amazing opening combination. 5 D’s in a row! Crazy. Cool dismount combo too, Ono into double front half out. Really innovative and interesting.
Great bar routine. Loved the combos.
I can only hope that innovation can come back Russian-style!
Gymnastics elements are forever alive and moving forward like the fastest man on earth breaking records at eevery championships.
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