26. August 2004  
Olympic city Athens  
Artistic Gymnastics

Arkaev speaks about

In view of the judging scandals in the Olympic men’s artistic gymnastics competitions the most successful coach of the World Leonid Arkaev has asked for changes to be made. In an interview the president of the Russian gymnastics federation explained: ”Something has to happen urgently now! Maybe I shouldn’t say that but we have a mafia of judges”, this was reffered to the high-bar score of Alexei Nemov.
Also the former FIG- president Juri Titov spoke from a scandal and asked to check the videos of the event urgently…
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