The Medal Count

A physical therapist at Romania’s national training center filed a complaint after a confrontation with coach Camelia Voinea. He says Voinea burst into the recovery room, shouted at him, and forced athletes to leave mid-treatment. golazo.ro/camelia-voinea…

❌Ming come to Georgia, we have an Olympian coach from your country!!! ❌Ming come to UCLA, we are in the city that is hosting the next Olympics!!! ✅Ming come to Florida, our teams are always stacked with Worlds AA medalists!!!

Former Romanian gymnast Maria Holbură backs coach Patrick Kiens’ claims of a tense, abusive atmosphere on the national team, citing verbal and psychological abuse, strict control, and a culture of fear and silence. golazo.ro/maria-holbura-…

Heartbreaking video footage appearing to show Camelia Voinea🇷🇴 getting physical with a young Sabrina Voinea after she messes up a UB practice

Former Romanian head coaches Daymon Jones and Patrick Kiens join us to unpack the turmoil inside Romanian gymnastics — from new accusations to decades-old coaching culture and leadership struggles. gymcastic.com/jakarta-worlds…

Where will Ming Gherardi van Eijken🇫🇷 end up at?

The spelling styles seem to change with era (1980s vs 2020s gymnasts). But most critically they also vary between 🇰🇵&🇰🇷 with one program taking far longer for the style to be changed than the other. Can someone explain what's going on here?

Anyone here an expert on Korean naming conventions? I'm trying to make a master list of all Korean gymnasts from 1970-present, but am always getting different spellings Source #1: Shin Sol-Yi Source #2: Sin Sol-Lee Source #1: Eom Do-Hyeon Source #2: Eom Doh-Yun

New article is out🎉🥳🍾 themedalcount.com/2025/11/08/ana…

5 gymnasts won AA gold without winning EF medals, 4 of which never won EF in any other competition Olga Bicherova🇷🇺 (1981) Natalia Yurchenko🇷🇺 (1983) Bridget Sloan🇺🇸 (2009) Gabby Douglas🇺🇸 (2012) Svetlana Khorkina🇷🇺 (2003) won EF medals elsewhere in her career.

Cecile Landi understood the assignment 😂😅🤣

1990: An Interview with Larisa Latynina - "Stars Don't Have Easy Characters" In which she reflects on her years guiding Soviet gymnastics, what happened after Nadia’s victory in 1976, and her support for Boginskaya gymnastics-history.com/2025/11/1990-a…

Time to get back to writing blog posts again... themedalcount.com/2025/11/03/the…

The highlight of her career came at 1969 Euros where she won a medal on every event and absolutely dominated Turischeva. It would be the last time anyone dominated Turischeva for the next 7 years. /end

It is common for websites to credit her as 3 different gymnasts with 3 brief appearances before disappearing when it was actually 1 great gymnast who kept appearing over & over again

Olga Karaseva passed away at the end of October at the age of 76 She's not a widely recognized name in the gym community these days, but she was one of the gymnasts who built modern gymnastics and didn't get much credit for it in the shadow of her more famous teammates 1/