A 27th September Sovietski Sport interview with national coach Andrei Rodionenko is translated here by Lupita:
– Andrei Fiodorovich, Alexandrov’s dismissal has given rise to different reactions. Not everyone supports you.– I am against this being called “a dismissal”. It’s a change of status. I was dismissed when I was the women’s team coach in Seoul [1988]. The Soviet team won gold and Elena Shushunova won the AA. But Arkayev (former president of the Russian Federation and head coach) considered he had to dismiss me. Nobody offered me another job! That was a real dismissal.
– How do you define the fact that Alexandrov is no longer the team’s head coach? Which word would you use?
– “Allocation of duties”. We couldn’t accept Alexandrov having two functions. …
We have to prepare for Rio today, not a year before the Olympics. It means that we have to learn from the lessons of London as soon as possible. This is how I understand my role and my responsibility. …
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If you’ve not been following this story, Andrei’s responding to this.
Lupita translates some of the proceedings from the Coaches’ Council meeting at which Alexander Alexandrov was ousted as head WAG coach.
… The personal coaches express their grievances.
‘There was no discipline in the team! When Alexandrov arrived, we talked about discipline and of having control of the gymnasts’. But he failed …
It was a pity and a shame to watch our girls in training. No other gymnast from another country behaved like that. The Romanians, the Americans, all worked quietly, listening to their coaches, repeating the elements …
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