Category: Gymnastics

Andreea Răducan documentary – The Golden Girl

HEY – IOC.

Give Răducan a Gold medal for the AA at the 2000 Olympics. Weā€™ve always considered her the deserving winner.

Shot in 2015 and 2016, the documentary The Golden Girl centres on Romanian gymnast Andreea Răducan, who won the all-around gold medal at the 2000 Olympics, only to be forced a day later to renounce her title and her medal following a controversial doping test. ā€¦

We meet Răducan, now a retired gymnast and a successful businesswoman, in 2015, as she starts to investigate the possibility of convincing the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to give her back her medal. ā€¦

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Click PLAY or watch a highly dramatic trailer on YouTube.

Nabievas – Sunisa & Nina

Both are great. Suni stays straight longer crossing the vertical line.

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Suni – Stuttgart

about that ‘Coaching Shortage’

Tony Retrosi:

Gymnasts who could choose to become coaches are choosing not to. …

As gym owners we need to make coaching a profession. Educate our staff. Make them proud of what they do. We need to charge for classes and team enough to pay our staff a sustainable wage. If we do that we will see the ranks of coaches grow. Making coaching and teaching gymnastics a competitive profession.

Make Coaching A Profession

Men qualified to Tokyo Olympics (so far)

Click PLAY or see the teams on YouTube.

Click PLAY or see the individuals on YouTube.

There are a few more to be named.

Ivan Stretovich training for Tokyo

… Surgeries, growth spurt and coaching issues were among the obstacles he had to overcome to become a part of the gold-winning Russian team in Stuttgart. …

… I changed coaches, that was the most important thing. … now Iā€™m with Vitaly Nikolayevich Bubnovsky [who coached Aleksander Balandin]. He believed in me, he got me to such a place where Iā€™m ready to go out and compete at any moment. …

Under his coaching, only after a month of training, I went to the Universiade in Naples and won four medals. After that, there was the training camp in Japan and right after, the Russian Cup and the second place in the all-around. …

… We started working together in June, only four months have passed, but the work has changed radically, from warming up to the second practice. I started paying attention to every little thing …

STRETOVICH: I NEEDED TO FALL INTO A WASTE PIT TO BECOME A WORLD CHAMPION

Ivan Stretovich 2016