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Could 30-year-old gymnast be the new Mrs Putin? Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) handing flowers to Alina Kabayeva, Russian rhytmic gymnastics star and Olympic prize winner, after awarding her with an Order of Friendship Putin it about ...

 President and gymnast By HARRY HAWKINS

NEWLY single Vladamir Putin could be Russian into a new relationship – with a sexy gymnast 30 years his junior. The ex-KGB officer revealed he is to divorce wife Lyudmila in a dramatic TV announcement on Thursday. And the split has fuelled speculation strongman Putin, 60, could be about to hook up with a woman rumoured to be his long-term mistress. PICTURES:UNIONDALE,NEW YORK,24JUL98 - Alina Kabayeva of Russia performs her gold-medal winning routine during ribbon competition in the Goodwill Games rhythmic gymnastics apparatus finals in Uniondale Flexible ... Alina Kabayeva won Olympic gold Alina Kabayeva, 30, an Olympic gold medallist, has denied claims she has up to three children with the Russian leader. But the pair are said to have been spotted kissing in Moscow restaurant as far back as 2008. Kabayeva recently took to prime time TV to deny she has children with judo fan Putin. Alina Kabayeva, Russia's top rhythmic gymnast and 1998 European championship winner, performs during the 1999 Grand Prix rhythmic gym Stretchy ... she also won a bronze medal in Sydney And neither her nor the Kremlin boss’ have ever confirmed that she is his mistress, though allegations of his marital problems first surfaced five years ago. The claims were published in a newspaper owner by Putin’s tycoon rival Alexander Lebedev, but six days after intimating the relationship, his paper was shut. In a TV interview marking her 30th birthday on Russia’s main Channel One network last month, Kabayeva denied she had children despite widespread rumours to the contrary. President Putin with wife Lyudmila Split ... President Putin announced his divorce from wife on TV “The whole country - and perhaps now other countries too - write that I’ve got two or three children,” she said without alluding to Putin. “Sadly, I don’t have children yet. “But, of course, I want to be a mother. “Still, I’m not yet." Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) greets Russian gymnasts Alina Kabayeva (C) and Svetlana Khorkina (L) during a meeting with candidates to the Russian Olympic team for Summer Olympics 2004 at the presidential residence in Novo-Ogaryovo outside Moscow, March 10, 2004 Denials ... pair have never confirmed relationship Kabayeva won a gold in the rhythmic gymnastics in the 2004 Athens Olympics. She also won a bronze at Sydney four years earlier. Putin said of the end of his 30-year marriage: “It was a joint decision. We hardly see each other.” Former Aeroflot stewardess Lyudmila, 55, added: “He is totally immersed in work. We lead our own lives.”