Year: 2016

The Penev Vault?

What do you think? Ri Se Gwang from Yurchenko!

Yurchenko double backs are still very rare.

Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.

(via papaliukin)

Sergey Diomidov

diamidovSergey Viktorovich Diomidov (Russian: Сергей Викторович Диомидов; born 9 July 1943) is an Uzbekistan former gymnast who competed in 1964 and 1968 Olympics. He won team silver medals at both Games and a bronze on the vault in 1968. …

Click PLAY or watch his eponymous skill on YouTube.

You can watch Sergey himself training it in this edit of him and coach Konstantin Karakashyants before and during the 1966 World Championships. Click PLAY or watch him on YouTube.

I’ve often seen his name spelled “Diamadov”. Or “Diamadov”. The Code of Points uses Diamidov though I don’t trust Code spelling in general. Of course you can use Sergey or Sergei.

When in doubt I usually use the wikipedia translation which has (hopefully) been widely crowdsourced. @papaliukin likes Diomidov.

(via Rewriting Russian Gymnastics)

Claudia Fragapane – Cha Cha

Her first performance at Strictly Come Dancing. Nobody will be eliminated week 1.

Claudia Fragapane & Aj Pritchar dance the Cha Cha to That’s What Makes You Beautiful by One Direction.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. BIG finish.

Vitaly Marinitch resigns

Many were wondering if there would be any shake up in the USA Men’s program.

End of the year Vitaly is leaving the Olympic Training Centre where many of the National Team train.

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