Courtesy of Aliya's group on VK.com
Today the Russian team opens its doors to the press for an open training day. We will all be looking out for coverage and will post links as soon as available.
Viktoria Komova has personally posted some news of her recovery on VK. I can't quite get the technical medical translation of her operation so won't even attempt it here, but some work has been done on the ankle ligaments (elsewhere this is confirmed as a third operation on the same ankle). After six weeks, assuming all has gone to plan with her recovery, she will be able to resume training.
The teams have now been announced officially and there are no further changes from the teams originally announced other than Rodionova's replacement of the unfortunate Kramarenko (see earlier blogs). Thanks to Dolly-Z on Tumblr who posted this brief summary of some news from R-Sport. Please note this will not be final at this stage! Working orders aren't final until the gymnasts are on the floor, and we won't even really know for sure who is on the team until they march out on the first morning of competition!
"Mustafina may compete 3 events at Euros. Bars and beam for sure, but she might also do floor. The other girls’ specialist events are:
Kharenkova: beam, floor
Spiridonova: bars, beam
Rodionova: bars
Sosnitskaya: vault, floor
It’s unclear who else will be doing vault and who the third girl for floor would be in Mustafina's absence from this piece"