There is also a news piece on the Russia Cup which I think is quite important as it makes clear that the team selection will not take place until late before the World Championships (I believe they are travelling 27th September), thus giving Viktoria Komova time to work up a contributing beam routine, and, f what team captain Aliya Mustafina says is right, possibly a vault! Many of you will have seen that Vika took gold on uneven bars at this morning's Russia Cup event finals, ahead of all around champion Aliya Mustafina and European medallist Daria Spiridonova and it will be great to see her take encouragement from this success.
You will find the original video here : http://youtu.be/yLMIWL1Kouw, and I would like to thank Olesya Miheeva who very kindly took the time to write these detailed translations from the video.
Kharenkova: "the atmosphere was good, everyone is always supporting everyone, Aliya is always helping us, she's the team captain, it makes it easier for us".
Aliya: "overall I'm very happy, I thought it'd be worse, because the last competition was very difficult and I was tired and thought it'd be hard to perform today, and it was difficult but I dealt with it"
Komova: "my health overall is good but for now my leg is still hurting because there's been so little time. But I'm gonna try to *jump* (train beam/vault) to get ready for worlds" "Here they're testing the team that'll perform at Worlds, the girls are trying very hard; they're doing a good job, even if without me at worlds, I'll be cheering them on"
Aliya: "the team won't be decided until the very last day because no one knows what will happen or if someone will start having pain or get injured; we can't tell"
In regards to Vika, Aliya says "I'm very happy she's returning because she has very strong bars and she'd be great if she got her double Yurchenko back. With that kind of team we could really compete for a place on the podium'
Kharenkova: "I'm trying to make it onto the worlds team and from the Russian Cup, I'm still waiting to earn a medal."
Komova: "support us, believe in us, watch gymnastics"
Aliya: "i wanna wish everyone the best and a huge thank you for your support and I hope that I will continue to make everyone happy/proud"
You will find a full video of today's livestream at http://youtu.be/hINUslaG3xQ.
There is a report of today's competition at the Couch Gymnast http://www.thecouchgymnast.com/2014/08/30/event-finals-bars-beam/
Event finals continue tomorrow at 13.00 Moscow time. There is a live stream available at www.sportgymrus.ru.
Good luck to all the gymnasts .. Udachi!!