SCIENCE OF GYMNASTICS JOURNAL                                                                                                      Vol. 13 Issue 3:  2021  
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EDITORIAL 
 
 
Dear friends, 
  
All gymnastic disciplines were excellent at this year’s Summer Olympic Games. Great 
achievements of our athletes in artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastic and trampolining! From 
my subjective point of view, Nikita Nagorny made a huge step forward to further our sport. It 
took all this time since OG 1988 in Seoul, when Valery Ljukin from the former Soviet Union 
performed a triple salto backward tucked, to see Nikita Nagorny perform a triple salto backward 
piked at a major competition. It will take some more time before followers start performing the 
triple backward piked. However, our science supports and facilitates improvements in apparatus, 
the development of better methods of strength training, psychological readiness, and so on, and 
all this leads to further developments in our sport. 
 
Having the Olympic Games and the World Championships within three months of the same year 
created many challenges for everyone involved in competitive gymnastics. On one hand, there is 
gymnasts’ tiredness, on another, new faces bring in new energy.  
 
There are new challenges for  researchers too. In the middle of October, Flavio Bessi 
organised  International Freiburg Gymnastics Congress online. You can find it at 
https://www.sport.uni-freiburg.de/en/events/international-gymnastics-congress. 
 
Contributing authors in this issue are from Tunisia, Oman, Brazil, Germany, United Kingdom, 
Slovenia, Russia and Greece. Again, many different aspects of gymnastics are presented. 
 
Anton Gajdoš and Michal Babela drafted the 22nd short historical note introducing   Samulel 
Piasecky from Slovakia. 
 
Sadly, we lost a gymnastic friend. Aljoša Demjanov who competed for Russia and Croatia passed 
away last summer. R.I.P., Aljoša. 
 
Just to remind you, if you cite the journal, its abbreviation in the Web of Knowledge is SCI GYMN 
J.  
 
I wish you enjoyable reading and many new ideas for research projects and articles. 
  
  
Ivan Čuk      
Editor-in-Chief 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
SCIENCE OF GYMNASTICS JOURNAL                                                                                                      Vol. 13 Issue 3:  2021  
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For celebrating national day of Slovene sport on 23rd September in front of President’s palace 
Exhibiton about Slovene Phycisal Culture was opened by (from left) Wolgang Baumann TAFISA 
Secretary General, Franček Gorazd Tiršek – Slovene paralympic silver medal holder, Miroslav 
Cerar – Olympic winner in the name of Slovene President Borut Pahor, Janez Sodržnik – vice 
president of Slovene Olympic Committee – Association of Sports Federations and Prof. Ivan Čuk, 
exhibition author.