#khorkina

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My stupid ass Mouthwashing OCs /affectionate

Fran Delgado - A constantly on edge and meticulous co-pilot for the freighter called “Sleipnir.” Also a devout Christian who may or may not have the occasional existential crisis or two. Not exactly the best at handling conflict. (They/them)

Kenneth “Kenny” Dean - The captain of the “Sleipnir” freighter, Kenneth (or Kenny as he insists to be called), is an older man who was once a model with a “bad boy” aesthetic during his younger years. Despite having long since moved on from his modeling career and his older age, Kenny still finds great enjoyment in receiving attention regarding his appearance and his past. (He/him)

Eleanor Saunders - A well experienced nurse (not for Pony Express, just for a regular hospital) who likes to spend her days sitting out on her porch and smoking a cigarette. She often hides her loneliness, and frankly a lot of her emotions, behind a mask of apathy and dismissal. She’s also my version of Swansea’s wife. She misses her husband Tails. She misses him a lot. (She/her)

Adrian Khorkina - A forensic scientist with a stern and no nonsense attitude, who can be very intimidating to others. Pretty strong as well, enough to easily carry someone over his shoulder with ease. Is the older brother of Anya, with her also being one of the only people he drops his intimidating persona around. He misses his sister Tails. He misses her a lot. (He/they)

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[freifraufischer]

Great Gymnastics Battles

Two Double Olympic Gold Medalists (RUS) vs Performing Two Elite Bars Routines in 15 minutes (GER)

Svetlana Khorkina (RUS) - 7.775 Elena Zamolodchikova (RUS) - 7.200

This was the 2001 Cottbus Turnier der Meister--a part of the World Cup qualification circuit at the time. It was a common format at both Cottbus and the DTB Pokal for the top two finishers in an event final to then have to repeat their routines in a "Winners Final". Often times this resulted in the gold and silver decided by who handled being exhausted better. And yes the hydraulic podiums were common too.

[beatrack92]

Svetlana Khorkina 🇷🇺

Athens 2004 Olympics

[mustafinaandhergirls]

Gelya's filmed a documentary about the making of an Olympic Champion - Mustafina & Khorkina are also interviewed for it, Vorona too.

Shows training footage and her opening her gym ✨

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Found this update about Sabrina/Romania and the floor final on reddit. I do like the stipulation that Jordan will keep her medal, but I'm worried about setting a precedent for allowing scores for routines from competitions that are already over? (Even though in my heart I truly feel that Sabrina should have been the one on the podium to begin with, especially with that bogus neutral deduction that nobody can explain). This feels like this is only happening because Nadia fucking Comaneci is advocating for it, and I'm not sure I like the precedent of legends of the sport throwing their weight around to influence the FIG either (especially with what we know is going on with FRG with Catalina Ponor and Daniela Silivas harassing Ana and her coaches). Like imagine if the Karolyis had the ability to throw their weight around with the FIG while they were still active? Or if in the future Simone or Khorkina or Boginskaya could just step in and protest a score for an athlete. Plenty of people have also already talked about how Jordan's first individual Olympic medal (an incredible accomplishment!!) is so controversial and how awful the situation is for her and Ana, but all of that still stands.... what an absolute shitshow

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Obsessed with Suni's dream olympic team (from an Elle interview):

Nastia Liukin, Aliya Mustafina, Simone Biles, Svetlana Khorkina, and Dominique Dawes.

[viktoriakomova]

the way this is lowkey a khorkina

[lobaznyuk]

a khorkina??? in MY college gymnastics?

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Kind of curious, do you guys have any headcanons of the crew’s surnames? I’ve made some headcanon surnames for the crew a while before the game came out. Some of these might not fit now that the game is out but might as well share them anyways

Anya - Khorkina

Daisuke - Sasaki

Swansea - Saunders

Jimmy - Higgins

Curly - Holloway

[freifraufischer]

Svetlana Khorkina and the vast conspiracy against her and Russia.

[anxiousdinosaurio]

Does it have to be a team? Can I blame all my problems on retired Russian gymnast Svetlana Khorkina?

stop blaming everyone for all of your problems. pick one sports team you hate and blame them for everything

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[gymnasticscoaching]

Svetlana Khorkina - Bars

In 2024, the name Svetlana Khorkina is synonymous with pro-Putin politics, egomania, and extremely outspoken comments on social media. BUT — in her day — she was a revolutionary and dominant Bars competitor. At 5′ 5″ not wearing grips! Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

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Russian moves: Here are five athletes who electrified their sports with unique tricks

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Russian moves: Here are five athletes who electrified their sports with unique tricks

From ice hockey to gymnastics, Russian athletes have created numerous signature moves down the years

Russian athletes have undoubtedly made their mark on sports worldwide – so much so that some moves in their chosen disciplines have been named in their honor because of the way they popularized or introduced them. Here, we look at five sports moves named after Russian stars. ‘The Datsyuk Flip’ – ice hockey Known as the ‘Magic Man’ for the way he handled his stick to pull off some unfathomable moves, Pavel Datsyuk was one of the biggest names in hockey in the 2000s and enjoyed a 15-year career in the elite NHL with the Detroit Red Wings before returning to his homeland. Datsyuk will forever be a legend in the Motor City for his contributions to Stanley Cup titles in 2002 and 2008, but his participation on this list came after heroics in 2010. Taking the first shot of a shootout against the Red Wings’ bitter rivals the Chicago Blackhawks in a January regular season game, Datsyuk made a mockery of opposition goaltender Antti Niemi.  Gliding up to the Finn down the middle, Datsyuk did a slight ‘dirty dangle’ that he was famous for, then quickly flicked his wrist to make it appear as if he would backhand his effort. Instead, the Russian scooped the puck with the inside of his stick into the net.

Datsyuk’s audacity understandably sent the Joe Louis Arena into rapture, as well as his teammates. “They can’t believe it on the Red Wings bench,” said one elated commentator. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen a slow-mo play like that.” While Niemi and the Blackhawks had the last laugh that season as he became the first Finnish goalie to win the Stanley Cup, he is often remembered for being on the wrong end of Datsyuk’s trick shot. The move became immortalized as the ‘Datsyuk Flip’, with hockey enthusiasts attempting to pull it off on the popular NHL video game to this day. On a side note, the ‘Datsyuk deke’ wasn’t too shoddy either. Again produced in a shootout, it led one pundit to ask: “How many does he have in his repertoire?” ‘The Khorkina’ – artistic gymnastics (uneven bars) Svetlana Khorkina burst onto the global stage with a pair of silver medals at the 1994 World Championships in Brisbane, not long after her 15th birthday. Two years later, she enjoyed gold-medal success in the uneven bars at the Atlanta Olympics, bouncing back brilliantly after suffering initial disappointment with a 15th-place finish in the all-around final. The comeback ushered in one of the most revered artistic gymnastics careers of all time, with further high points including another Olympic gold medal and 20 World Championship medals as Khorkina became the first gymnast in history to win three all-around world titles.

Khorkina’s main specialties were the uneven bars and balance beam, and she left a legacy with at least nine moves named after her mainly in those disciplines, in addition to a few spread across floor exercises and the vault. The first couple – the Khorkina and the Khorkina 2 – come in the uneven bars and involve half-turn hangs. In the former, Khorkina started with a back uprise and then made a straddle flight over the high bar. In the latter, she had inner front support on the low bar, formed a clear hip circle to handstand, then impressively half-turned in full flight to hang on the high bar. There is another move called the Khorkina-Chow or Chow-Khorkina, which was first performed by Amy Chow and is a Stadler one-and-a-half pirouette. In the 1, 2 and 3 balance beam moves named after her, Khorkina dismounted the apparatus and performed either a full twist, a gainer two-and-a-half twist, or gainer triple twist. In the Khorkina 1 and 2 moves on the vault, there were also plenty of twists and turns with ‘the Khorkina’ in the floor exercise similarly involving a hop with one and a half turns.

Four of these skills are currently listed in the Code of Points (CoP), with Khorkina previously holding the record for the most eponym moves (nine) before some of them were removed ahead of the 2022-2024 quad as part of a regular CoP update. ‘The Besti Squat’ – figure skating Natalia Bestemianova was a Soviet figure-skating icon who, while overseen by legendary coach Tatiana Tarasova, made her name in the 1980s alongside her partner Andrei Bukin as a four-time world and five-time European champion. After suffering silver-medal disappointment at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, she finally struck gold in Calgary four years later.  It was throughout 1988 that ‘the Besti Squat,’ unofficially named after Bestemianova, gained prominence as she used it repeatedly in her free dance with Bukin.  The move resembles the spread eagle, given that the skater who executes it glides along an edge with both skates on the ice. The toes are turned out to the sides with the heels facing one another, and the knees are then bent outwards to a squatting position with the torso upright and thighs parallel to the ice.

Bestimianova, seen here at the 1998 Winter Olympics, made use of the move during a glittering career.

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While ‘the Besti Squat’ has become a popular move still used four decades later, not everyone approved of Bestemianova’s performances at the time. Reporting from the 1988 Winter Games, the New York Times claimed that Bestemianova and Bukin’s free dance program “suggested they might take the prize for vulgarity as well,” and that the endless debate as to whether ice dance is sport or art had come to a rest. “Her aggressiveness did not agree with a submissive image and the pair’s overall harsh style made no sense of the spliced-in moves – especially the spread eagle or plie,” it was stated.

Given that the routine landed her gold, however, it is doubtful that Bestemianova, who later became a TV personality on the Russian equivalent of ‘Dancing on Ice,’ cared too much. The Moscow native was perhaps ahead of her time, with out-of-touch critics falling wide of the mark.  ‘The Karelin Lift’ – wrestling Known as the ‘Russian Bear’, ‘Russian King Kong’, ‘the Experiment’, and ‘Alexander the Great’, Aleksandr Karelin retired in 2000 widely considered to be the greatest wrestler of all time – and among the most dominant athletes ever seen in any sport. Karelin scooped gold at three consecutive Olympic Games from 1988-1996 and put together a monstrous 887-2 record. He claimed silver in his last Games in Sydney in 2000. Such was Karelin’s dominance, there were inevitable claims that he used PEDs – although the athlete himself put his phenomenal record down to something else. “No one can completely believe that I am natural. The most important drug is to train like a madman – really like a madman. The people who accuse me are those who have never trained once in their life like I train every day of my life,” he once said.

Given his undisputed reign at the top of his sport, it should be no surprise that Karelin had a move named after him. Known as the ‘Karelin Lift,’ it saw him hold his hapless opponents in the air with his enormous reach and then body-slam them into the mat. The reverse body lift frequently saw Karelin awarded five points when executed properly, which was the maximum in the sport. The move started while his foe was lying flat on his back on the mat. Once wrapped up in Karelin’s grasp, opponents found it impossible to wriggle free from a  grip described as “anaconda-like.”

While it had long been used, Karelin made the lift his own. He was the first heavyweight to add it to his arsenal and wowed the wrestling world by demonstrating it on opponents weighing up to 130kg (285lbs). ‘The Kabaeva’ – rhythmic gymnastics One of the most decorated gymnasts in the history of the rhythmic facet of the sport, Alina Kabaeva won Olympic gold in Athens in 2004 after disappointment in Sydney four years earlier, where she had been widely expected to win the all-around event as the reigning world champion but made a costly error. Kabaeva boasts 14 World Championship medals and 21 at the European Championships from the late 90s and into the 2000s, but her contributions to her discipline go beyond any silverware amassed since becoming European champion as a 15-year-old prodigy. Kabaeva revolutionized rhythmic gymnastics by introducing new skills and moves. There are no fewer than four named after her, which have been given Roman numerals to distinguish them.

The ‘Kabaeva I’ is a ring leap she performed with both legs, but the ‘Kabaeva II’ is arguably her most famous, involving a backscale pivot from a standing or grounded position.  Kabaeva was the first to perform the backscale pivot, but her other two moves (the ‘Kabaeva III and IV’) saw her balance with support from her chest and split with hand support. The 39-year-old, who later ventured into politics, is still known as one of the most flexible athletes to ever grace the mats, and it’s not difficult to see why after a recap of the maneuvers she brought to the continental and global stage. 

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Svetlana khorkina always looked a lot taller than her competitors that I thought she was like 5’7”

We need to bring back the athletics body type post