Head Coach Andrei Rodionenko took action, as he promised he would, after problems with the Russian team at Worlds.
Andrei is taking some heat over this decision.
But I’m a great admirer of Rodionenko. I expect this discipline was warranted.
It might not be as bad as a trip to Siberia, but in the tightly controlled world of Russian gymnastics, it’s close.
The Russian gymnastics federation banned Maxim Deviatovski and Julia Lozhecko from its main training camps for the rest of the year for what it said were disciplinary violations at last week’s world championships, according to the Russian Web site All Sport. …
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