Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy

Please, no more Russians at USA-G. It's bad enough there's a conflict of interest on the Valeri Liukin appointment of elite athlete development coordinator and his daughter Nastia as the athlete rep. All national coaches should unite and protest some of these appointments. I'm fine with Mary Lee Tracy or anyone besides another Russian on USA-G committee. If Valeri is elite developement coordinator, then NO gymnast from WOGA should be on the national or Olympic team for at least 8 years. I think Alexander Alexandrov also has links in Texas and WOGA.
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Russian Alexander Alexandrov and Russian Nellie Kim (president of FIG Technical Committee) are two of the biggest cheater in gymnastics.
1988 Seoul Olympics, Nellie Kim (Soviet judge at the time) was responsible for helping fellow Soviet Shushunova win the AA Gold title.
from wikipedia:
"The all-around duel between Daniela Silivas and Yelena Shushunova is widely acknowledged to have been one of the finest contests in the history of the sport, not to mention most hotly debated. In particular, Silivas' score on vault came under scrutiny. Of the six judges on the panel, three marked her first vault as a perfect 10.0; two others gave her 9.9s. The Soviet judge on the panel Nellie Kim, however, only scored Silivas at a 9.8."
1992 Barcelona Olympics, Rozalia Galiyeva qualified for the individual AA, Tatiana Gutsu did not.
Galiyeva competed with the Unified Team at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. She exceeded expectations in the preliminary competition, finishing 8th and qualifying for the individual all-around final behind teammates Svetlana Boguinskaya and Tatiana Lysenko.
However, before the all-around, coach Alexander Alexandrov pulled Galiyeva from the competition, citing a knee injury. Her replacement was teammate Tatiana Gutsu. Although Gutsu had fallen from the balance beam in the team finals, she was renowned for her extreme difficulty and the reigning European all-around champion and a Worlds medalist on beam, vault and bars. It was later revealed that Galiyeva's injury was nonexistent, and that the substitution was made because Gutsu was considered to have better medal-winning potential. Indeed, Gutsu emerged from the Olympic all-around as the gold medalist. While Gutsu split her prize money with Galiyeva, Galiyeva always remained angry about this turn of events.
This fake injury move is now considered "pulling a Gutsu." During the 2012 London Olympics, some suggested that the USA should "pull a Gutsu" and insert Jordyn Wieber in the individual AA. Pulling a Gutsu may be okay in other countries, but in the U.S. you know lawsuit a coming.

I would think the bad press would come from what he did in the 1992 Olympics that landed Shannon Miller silver instead of gold.

bela for successor

Brian, why wouldn't you want Steve Rybacki? Curious.

No offense to Steve Rybacki, but I really hope it's not him.

It won't be someone from the NCAAs. It will be someone from the USAG Elite program...my money is on Valeri. He has Caitlyn for 2016, but if she stays healthy she'll be on that team regardless...so I bet he could do both.

it would suck to see valeri take on this position, for him to stop coaching would be such a waste... he is so brilliant
i really think it would be someone with the expertise but who is older, or closer to ebing done coaching.. like a Kelli hill..

i wonder if they already know who it is going to be and just wont announce it until after the olympics.. i would think that if someone in a position as important as matha's they would have found a replacement before annoucing her retirement??

I heard it may be Valerie

I agree with Parse. It most definitely should NOT be anyone with athletes in the system. I would create an intense conflict of interest. Valeri, I think, would be a great person for the position, but he has athletes in the system right now (Grace McLaughlin, Katelyn Ohashi, etc.). Kim Zmeskal would also be good.

Someone mentioned Kelli Hill, as well. She would be fantastic as well. She no longer has athletes competing at the elite level (Kytra Hunter has moved on to compete for Florida), so she could be a contender for the spot.
I am interested in seeing what comes of this... It could be very interesting. :)

would someone please tell Dominique Moceanu to watch this. She always has alot to say about Marta and those training camps.

What was that the girls say at the very end of the vid? Thank you marta, something something?