A critical look at "the most beautiful sport", its heroines and puppeteers...
To admit, at first I wanted to call this post just "feet from the ears in rhythmic gymnastics", but a little digging into the subject, the author realized that legs are legs, but it's in the rhythmic gymnastics - the tenth case... That is, Yes, as for purely anthropometric data, the legs of these gymnasts are longer than, say, in gymnastics.
Is it a beautiful sport?.. If you don't look closely, probably yes. And if you look closely?..
Forced smile, accepting sometimes on carpet any the hugely ridiculous and sometimes even vulgar poses amazing... What for?!.. For the love of art?.. Or to become after all this some there Alina Kabaeva, the Deputy of the state Duma?..
Yes, we have enough medals and Champions in this sport. Irina Viner-Usmanova in her 71 years(!) since 2001, and still - irremovable head coach of the Russian national team at hood. gymnastics and the permanent Chairman of the relevant Federation. (Does that remind you of anyone?..) In addition, he has a billionaire husband with a reputation for being very loyal and obedient, who is in power in a very good way. However, in the past and a prison record... But this is the way.
An artist gymnastics is one of the few sports where the results of athletes depend on judicial assessments, that is, where the identification of winners is largely subjective. This is along with, for example, gymnastics, as well as figure skating or jumping into the water.
...And characteristically, Winer is also Vice President of the technical Committee for rhythmic gymnastics of the International gymnastics Federation...
In general, it is clear that in these sports it was not without attempts to pressure the judges and without other manipulations. Suffice it to recall the Grand scandal of 2002 with the judging in figure skating, the main shadow participant of which was our notorious mafia Taiwanchic (Alimzhan Tokhtakhunov), who then served in an Italian prison for ten months and was almost extradited to us law enforcement... But this is a topic for a completely different publication, of course.
So, shoals are replaced in the national team 15-16-year-old girls, but Winer - is eternal. Actually, really train their unknown children's trainers, it only brings whom it is necessary to the level of the national team. Also, I. Winer is a member of the Supreme political Council of "United Russia". Who would doubt... Awarded all imaginable and unthinkable state and government regalia.
And girls... Well, maybe one in a thousand will get medals and a cash prize. Maybe even get a car in red square. Buy an apartment for parents in Uryupinsk. Maybe the Prime Minister or even the President himself after returning home on the cheek gently hand hold...
And after a couple of years, quietly dissolved in the team under the pressure of new, young and ambitious stars. Who also want to the podium, also want a car and an apartment... And as a result - a new wave of glorification of outstanding achievements of the greatest sports power of the world!..
As for the author's personal opinion, he would prefer that the people of his country would rather live, as in Sweden or Switzerland, where people, in general, do not care about the modest achievements of their artistic gymnasts (if they are there at all), but fine medicine and roads, for example... And pensions too. And by the way, would you gentlemen like your young daughter to have legs like those in the photo below?.. Author - no. And how many in this sport injuries!.. However yes, as in any other high-performance sport... Except chess, maybe.
Good luck and don't get hurt!.. Neither physically nor mentally.