Picture courtesy of Viktoria Komova fan group on VK.com
'An interview with Valentina Rodionenko. Important information she shares:
- The flu has been going around Round Lake. Those who will not compete at Nationals are Aliya Mustafina, Emin Garibov and Alexander Balandin, although is not because of flu but because of recovery from injuries.
- Komova really wants to compete all around, but they have decided against it and she and Afanasyeva will just do two events.
- Kharenkova, Spiridonova, Bondareva and Dmitrieva all look very good. Tutkhalyan is increasing her difficulty on bars still.
- Candidates for European Championships will be considered from the top 3 athletes on each event. Even with mistakes at the event, they will look at potential and invite them to the camp. Final decisions will be made then.
- Main contenders for the Euro team are now Afanasyeva, Komova, Spiridonova, Kharenkova and Sosnitskaya. For all around are mentioned Kharenkova and Shelgunova. Elizarova is also named as a serious contender.'
Thanks to lakekrugloye for the translation
And thank you to Corneliu who noticed this!
Nico of The Liukin has added -
Some other stuff:
-Komova recently pulled her back, so she isn't training floor for a while.
-Denis Ablyazin looks good on floor in training, but is still recovering from surgeries.
-The men in contention for Euros: Belyavskiy (AA), Kuksenkov (AA), Ablyazin, Nagornyy, Petrov, Ignatyev