The story of Russian Margarita Mamun's journey to the all-round Rio Olympics Gold Medal for Rhythmic Gymnastics was repeated in "Storyville," on BBC 4 last night. I've seen it before, but it is worth seeing. It'll be on i>Player. She had a hard time balancing the bullying she got from the head coach and the behaviour of her over-attentive female personal coach that I found a bit odd. For much of the time she seemed desperately unhappy, but never really complained. Throughout her last year of training her father was ill with cancer. He died two day after she returned from Brazil. She gave up the sport shortly after. She married her Russian Olympic swimmer boyfriend Alexander Sukhorucov in 2017 and became a mother in October last year, (I like happy endings).
