Talk:Julissa Gomez

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"Gomez spoke about Soviet Elena Mukhina, who had been paralyzed in an accident in the late 1970s, and mentioned that she had dreamt of the death of another gymnast."

This is very interesting, could more on this be found somewhere? Cmapm 10:25, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

There's some info about it (an excerpt from Little Girls in Pretty Boxes) here: http://www.eatingdisorderresources.com/christy/julissagomez.htm Apparently Mukhina was Gomez's favorite gymnast...very very eerie. Mademoiselle Sabina 11:46, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the link! Yes, it's eerie and I should add - a mystic story. There are a lot of questions for me: who and why pointed to Mukhina's coach the day before? Did she tell about her state to her coach, maybe there was some possibility to refuse to compete? Was Mukhina's coach present there during her vault? etc. Perhaps some of the similar questions will never be answered... Cmapm 12:27, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

There are definitely a lot of questions there...I don't know if anyone's ever said why Mukhina's coach was pointed out to Julissa, or what she was doing at the meet--judging, coaching someone else, watching the competition? It would be interesting to find out. From what I have read, Julissa was a very shy and quiet girl and had been bullied a lot by Karolyi before she trained with Fong. She didn't have a lot of assertiveness and she probably would have had a hard time telling her coach what was on her mind or refusing to compete. She did tell her teammate, but of course she couldn't do anything. It was a really sad and tragic situation. Mademoiselle Sabina 13:23, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for ideas on the second question. As concerns what was Mukhina's coach doing there, I have an idea. From what I know, Mukhina was coached by Mikhail Klimenko, here is written, that among his students was Aleftina Pryakhina (the period is not pointed out there, though). And she competed at 1988 World Sports Fair. Hence, it seems, that he was coaching there, although, of course, Aleftina could be coached by someone else at that time. And to find out exactly, where he was at that moment and did Julissa see him, I think, would be very hard.

The first question is the hardest and the most mysterious for me, and perhaps even impossible to answer at all. Not to mention, that there are a lot of other ones. And the alleged fact, that Mukhina was Julissa's favourite gymnast makes that disaster even more tragic and unfair... Cmapm 16:07, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Her favorite gymnast was Daniela Silivas. -kristy gomez

Thanks for letting us know, Kristy. If I can I'll try to find a way to write that into the article. DanielEng 05:44, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

So sad. I hate to hear these kinds of things. Rest in peace, sweetheart.--69.136.10.51 03:58, 7 September 2007 (UTC)