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Angelina Melnikova (RUS) All Around: 56.632, Gold 2021 Kitakyushu World Championships: All Around Final

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i still cant believe i watched gymnastics during the nbc primetime coverage of the london olympics and saw vika and aliya and instantaneously became a russia stan and the whole time ive followed gymnastics as a bona-fide fan, russia has been a bona-fide Mess™ with occasional flashes of brilliance (85% of which aliya was responsible for lbr lol) and after ALL THIS TIME they won an objectively very well deserved OLYMPIC TEAM GOLD MEDAL i waited a DECADE but i LIVED TO SEE IT

i know there are only like 50 people left on the tumblr gymternet but anywhomst WE SURVIVED GANG WE DID IT! WE SAW IT THROUGH TO THE BITTER END!!! A DREAM COME TRUE

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Nastya and Lena ❤️

How did they get onto the floor? We will never know

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Olympic champions, what a time to be alive ♥️🇷🇺

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y’all know what this means for the development of the sport in russia??

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MY HEART ♥️♥️

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requested by anonymous

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Just found this picture of us applauding Aliya for doing the bare minimum

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Imagine being alive in 1989 and seeing Laschenova, Strazheva and Boginskaya performing three of the most ICONIC routines in the history of the sport one after the other? I think I would have died

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Lilia Podkopayeva’s beam routine from the 1994 World Championships

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A Love Letter to Viktoria Komova’s Uneven Bars Routine

The kips and casts. Absolute basics for an elite, but so effortless and beautifully done. They don’t break the rhythm of the routine one bit, all flow nicely and don’t look the least bit muscled. Toes perfectly pointed, legs straight and beautiful handstands.

The swing. So light but at the same time so powerful. No muscling needed, just a natural swing that makes it look like even centrifugal force is in love with Vika and works with her in perfect harmony. She’s swinging around that bar effortlessly in a calm but purposeful rhythm that never breaks.

The form.  Body beautifully in line, legs long and pencil straight with toes extending them even further and everything glued together without it looking like she’s squeezing them or making any effort. And she just might have the most beautiful tucked position out of anyone right now, the entire length of her legs from her thighs to her big toes glued together and feet pointed.

The flight. Again, lighter than air but so powerful. The physics just work for her. She’s hanging there, letting go and flying with the current wherever it takes her.

The landing. This is how you end a routine.

Effortless. Now how many times did I already mention that word? Whatever, let’s say it one more time, she makes something so difficult look so effortless.

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the novel coronavirus aka covid-19 was created by biological engineers working for the russian FSB at the behest of the russian ministry of sport to delay the 2020 olympic games for long enough to allow 7x olympic medalist and living legend of artistic gymnastics aliya fargatovna mustafina to return to peak competitive form. in this exposé i will

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Kyla Ross + pride cape

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remember when we thought vika was actually coming back..... cut the cameras

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Viktoria Komova’s uneven bars routine from the 2018 Russian Cup AA