This week we talked to Elizabeth Booth, lecturer at the University of Greenwich, Olympic gymnastics expert for The Guardian, and blogger-in-chief at Rewriting Russian Gymnastics. Three weeks ago she published the definitive English language interview with legendary Russian coach, Alexander Alexandrov. You may remember that as the day Tumblr exploded. We got the chronology and details of the Rodionenko-Alexandrov conflict, and chatted about the Rodionenko’s powerful government ties, Grishina Gate, the state of the men’s program, the long history of Soviet gymnastics using the press to air discontent, who may be next in line for the head coaching job and most importantly, what all of this disharmony really says about the state of the Russian gymnastics system. Read the Alexandrov interview here.
Related:
Our Boguinskaya interview
Lena Degteva interview
Did you guys change how you upload the podcasts? I can’t seem to listen to them on my phone anymore (Android). Sad – your chit chat would distract me enough to run so much further!
Yes and no. We are using a player widget on the website now. How do you usually listen, website, iTunes or Stitcher? The free Stitcher app works with Android and doesn’t take up any storage space like the the Apple podcast app does. Try that and let us know how it goes.