The Full in Full out blog plans to post a series of gymnastics coach profiles. The first features – who else – Valeri Liukin.
This story I had never heard …
… So when an opportunity came along to win $15,000 in a costumed gymnastics event, the resourceful Liukin went for it. Fifteen grand later, the Liukins and Marchenko were ready to get the gym off the ground. …
read the profile – Know a Coach – Valeri Liukin
Valeri and his coach Edouard Liukin, from Kazakhstan, were always outsiders. Never favourites of the National Coach.
It did not help that Edouard was not a vodka drinker. Not part of that grand Russian coaching tradition.
Gymnastics Coaching.com 