The Olympic Reserve School
The Glasgow School of Sport is extremely grateful to Roseanna Kachanova - External Relations Officer with Rostov City Administration for translating during these interviews.
The Glasgow School of Sport hosted a delegation of ten from the world renowned Olympic Reserve School No 2 in Rostov-On-Don, Russia. Listen in to the following podcasts to find out what it's all about. A selection of images (PDF 321k) has also been made available.
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Vladimir Fudimov |
Lia Fudimova |
Olga Sagina |
Anastasia Sidorova |
Lynne Donaghy |
Philippa Musikant |
Sandra Walsh |
Angela Porter |
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Vladimir Fudimov - Director Olympic Reserve School (2.71Mb - mp3 audio file) |
Angela Porter - Director Glasgow School of Sport (1.82Mb - mp3 audio file) |
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Anastasia Sidorova - Gymnast Olympic Reserve School (1.98Mb - mp3 audio file) Aged 11 and already a Russian champion, Anastasia shares her secrets for success . |
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Lia Fudimova and Olga Sagina - Coaches Olympic Reserve School (3.03Mb - mp3 audio file) Lia, Choreography Director to World Champion Natalia Yurchenko and Olympic medallist Elena Produnova together with Olga, coach to Olympic medallist Maria Kryuchkova share their expectations of what it takes to be a top gymnast. Both coaches delivered coach education workshops during their visit to Glasgow and a DVD is available for purchase from the Glasgow School of Sport. Listen in to how they approach developing world class gymnasts. |
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Philippa Musikant - High Performance Coach Glasgow School of Sport (1.18Mb - mp3 audio file) Philippa explores the differences between Scotland and Russia and her hopes for the future. Philippa will visit Rostov later this year with City of Glasgow Coach Sandra Walsh and Lynne Donaghy. All three coaches and seven top gymnasts from the Glasgow School of Sport and the City of Glasgow Gymnastics Club will train at the Olympic Reserve School and learn from their methods, skills and techniques and bring back that knowledge and good practice to raise standards of performance in Glasgow. |
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Lynne Donaghy - Former pupil GSoS and gymnast Commonwealth Games 2002 (949k - mp3 audio file) "Everything's about perfection." |
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Sandy Richardson - National Coach (857k - mp3 audio file) Find out what Sandy learned from the Olympic Reserve School. |
Glasgow School of Sport is grateful to Chris Smith for the production of the podcasts used on this page. |
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Anastasia Sidorova on the bars (5.8Mb - wmv file format)
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Yulia Belokobylskaya on the beam (6.3Mb - wmv file format)
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