Too early to say.
As for Valeri Liukin - Yes. The American gymnastics system would be nothing had it not had the foreign coaches and personnel to literally buy its success. I always viewed Nastia Liukin as essentially a Russian World and Olympic champion, just as Martina Navratilova was a Czech tennis player. The rules relating to flags of convenience were always too lax. Granted, America also benefitted from the fact that young people within Eastern European countries have virtually abandoned gymnastics and targeted richer sports such as tennis, etc. For example, if Romania were to suddenly repair its collapsed infrastructure, it would still take it decades to reestablish itself as there is no talent pool to draw from. Hence, for the next 20 years, America could get away with putting a garden gnome in charge, because it would still win as there is no longer any actual competition.
Quote from Richard Dawkins: "The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.” If God exists and has the personality depicted in the Old Testament, should the human race still worship God - Yes or No?
