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Welcome to Gymnastics International, the fifth episode of our Gymnastics International Series,

where we take a deep dive into the latest competitions from around the world with no ugly Americans

in sight. I'm Spencer with Jessica and this week we're talking about the 2021 Russian

Championships, basically the gold star of all international gymnastics competitions. It's all

I've all we've ever wanted. And for our visual listeners, if you are a club gym nerd member,

you can watch along by logging in at gymcastic.com and going to this episode and there are some

routines that we're going to watch, but we'll describe them in full at length for our listener,

listeners. You'll know exactly what is giving Jessica the vapors at any given moment.

The vapors! Okay, let's begin talking about Russian women's national championship and we

also get to the men a little bit. We'll talk about the men's, I'm too. Yeah.

What's the mask on? Is it's most of it? Oh, the mascot's with signs, you guys. And I just can't.

They're my favorite part. So anyway, we'll get to that. So let's first start with the winner.

Victoria Listo Nova of Russia, one super shock of Russia won the Russian championship. She is the 2021

national all around champion and also the absolute biggest beneficiary throughout the world of

the delay to the Olympic Games because she would not have been age eligible for the 2020 Tokyo

Olympics, but now the 2020 with an NE on the end of the 2021 Olympics. She is age eligible.

She is a senior gymnast now and she pretty comfortably won. I mean, she had a challenge from

Urazova, but yeah, I mean, she showed up. Now she's a senior and she hit as much as what counts as a

hit for Russian nationals competition. She hit and it was extremely impressive. We have seen her

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