MOSCOW, Apr 14President of the All-Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation (VFCG) and head coach of the Russian national team Irina Viner-Usmanova stated in an open letter that the rules of Russian rhythmic gymnastics will be changed in contrast to the international rules, designed to make programs more interesting and diverse in order to progressively develop sports. As noted in the letter, with each Olympic cycle, the rules of the competition underwent changes, a number of spectacular and interesting elements were excluded, and many were reduced in cost, as a result, the compositions of the athletes began to consist of monotonous elements and resemble one another. In addition, the requirements for the quality of the technical and artistic performance of competitive programs were lowered so that athletes whose level of preparedness was much lower than that of Russian gymnasts became winners. the podium of gymnasts from other countries, even if their level of preparedness is much lower than that of Russian athletes. And we had to look for interesting moments with great difficulty in order to win. Therefore, in the current conditions, we, the coaches, decided to start working again creatively and comprehensively This means that we must give the opportunity to democratically compose programs for our gymnasts, «says a letter published on the WFCG Telegram channel. «Our gymnasts are forced to do uninteresting elements, because they are unreasonably expensive. These elements can be done by many , — the letter says. — We had a It is necessary to analyze all the elements and adequately determine their true value, based on the achievements of science and practice, and now gymnasts can perform any elements from those presented in the competition rules. We must move forward, our new rules are aimed at diversity and the realization of the possibilities of each gymnast. This, in turn, makes it possible to avoid injuries by choosing elements that a gymnast can perform according to her genetic qualities and level of preparedness.
