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Lilia trained in a gym with no proper equipment until she moved to St Petersburg as a teen. Lilia didn’t make the NT until she was 17. At 21, she finally got an A Team assignment. At 24 Lilia went to the Olympics, won gold and is now getting ₽9,439,446 and a brand new car. 👑

Larisa is going to take a break and go on vacation with her family, then she’s planning on starting training for Worlds

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lmaooo first grade of russia stan studies! lemme enroll cause im wayyy more knowledgeable on russian drama in figure skating than gymnastics

Russian gym drama is nothing in comparison with FS russian drama, so there is nothing much to say xD

Back in 2012-2013 there was a big coaching fight because the head coach Alexandrov back then and the NT coordinator Rodionenko were enemies since the 80’s, and some gymnasts (Dementyeva, Grishina) were direct victims of it. Also the girls of the 2012 quad were a little bit “rebellious” and there was the suspicion Dementyeva was bullied by the older ones because she was the favourite of Alexandrov and he was all about older gymnasts retiring. Also seems Pavlova clashed with the whole coaching staff and the Beijing team too because she blamed them for not medalling or something like that. Then at 2015 Mustafina fell out with the Rodionenkos and left Round Lake just before Worlds. That was DRAMATIC, because none knew back then if she would come back. Then there is the wedding-pregnancies chapter which is also interesting lol

I don’t have time right now, but honestly, one month of FS drama is like years of gymnastics drama lol. Nothing really scandalous tbh. Like a NBC fluff would say, they are all like a big family <3

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Oh, and how could I forget my favourite rumor: Nabs getting obsessed with a German MAG gymnast at 2010 Worlds and misperforming at finals because he wouldn’t pay attention to her and she was devastated. Our own Anna Karenina, but instead of throwing herself to a train she jumped into a vaulting table.

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Gelya wants to continue on to Paris but only if she doesn’t have to stay at a locked down Round Lake. Usually the athletes get to leave to meet friends, go shopping, go for dinner etc etc - they were not allowed for the past year and a half.

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Rio 2016 -> Tokyo 2020

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Viktoria Listunova of Team ROC competes in the Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Floor Exercise Event Final on Day 10 of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre on August 2nd, 2021 (Source: Getty Images and IMAGO)

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OLYMPIC BEAM SILVER MEDALIST TANG XIJING AND OLYMPIC BEAM CHAMPION GUAN CHENCHEN

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like truly not to be corny but vlada and vika have reminded me what made me love watching gymnastics so much in the first place. such a breath of fresh air. and unfortunately so hard to come by UGH they both have my whole heart