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Garibov, Balandin will miss Worlds, confirms head coach Alfosov
Head MAG coach Valery Alfosov has confirmed that the Russian team will be missing two of its key players in Glasgow this winter - Emin Garibov and Alexander Balandin. As reported on this blog two days...
View ArticleAliya Mustafina rumours - editorial note
EDITORIAL NOTE ADDED 9.9.2015From Queen ElizabethThere has been much discussion about Aliya in past weeks. I do not want to create any distress or add to the current storm in a teacup, so the...
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Keep Calm And Support Aliya
Andrei Rodionenko has confirmed on RSport that Aliya has eligibility to qualify for Worlds even if she doesn't compete at Russia Cup.All that is important is that Aliya remains healthy and happy to...
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Russia Cup preparations and TV shoot ... picture gallery
The Russian team is hard at work, seriously preparing for the forthcoming selection for World Championships, and considering the path ahead to Rio. It is essential that both the men’s and women’s...
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Happy Birthday, Ksenia Afanasyeva!
Ksenia, who turns 24 today, will most likely be team captain in Glasgow, assuming she does well in the forthcoming series of qualifying events for Worlds and makes the team!Ksenia has an impressive...
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List of competitors - Russia Cup
The national team in training for Worlds, with their coachesWAG - http://sportgymrus.ru/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/spisok-uchastnikov-zhen.pdfPleased to see all the usual suspects are registered, plus...
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Russia Cup WAG team results, individual qualifications
WAG results - team event - Russia Cup. Moscow, Central, St Petersburg.Individual qualis -AA - Spiridonova 57.3, Sosnitskaya 56.367 Kharenkova 55.967, Tutkhalyan 55.766Shelgunova 54.999V - Paseka,,...
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Angelina Melnikova - top scorer in Russia Cup AA
Angelina Melnikova ... Top scorer in the Russia Cup AA competition today. Daria Spiridonova in second place was the leading senior in the field, followed by Maria Kharenkova. Seda Tutkhakyan in 4th...
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Spiridonova Russia Cup Champion!
Spiridonova, Tutkhalyan, Kharenkova - a great finish but with too many errors. Floor is a real weakness for this team, although bars are good and beam has significant potential ...Poor Sosnitskaya ......
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Melnikova and the rest - a team of worried Russians
Can the Russians replace frowns with smiles next year in Rio?'The results we realised yesterday will not be enough to fight for medals in Glasgow', said Head Coach Andrei Rodionenko in an interview...
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Aliya Mustafina to miss Worlds
Mustafina will not compete at Worlds, says Valentina Rodionenko. The gymnast will concentrate on her preparations for Rio, says the Head Coach in RSport....
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Russian gymnastics teams for World Champs 2015, Glasgow - provisionallists
In Glasgow, MAG could well provide the highlights for the Russian team this time as Nikita Ignatyev's surge towards AA victory has strengthened the team in depth. The addition of ambitious young blood...
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Russia Cup - Day one EF results and a little reflection
Dynamic young Seda Tutkhalyan, a leading gymnast in Penza this week, is finding her feet in senior competitionOnce again this week the Russian women showed themselves to be vulnerable to errors in the...
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Provisional Russian team for Glasgow - Mustafina will now prepare,...
Aliya Mustafina - competitive status has been veiled in mystery. Photograph is by leading Russian photographer, Sergei BermenievThe mist surrounding Aliya Mustafina's official competitive status...
View ArticleMustafina riposte - I will decide if I compete on the basis of myhealth, says...
As quickly as my posts have been published, new stories have emerged. In my last post - you will need to read it in order to get the full picture - I said we would need to read Aliya's words, and here...
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Does Russia need Mustafina in Glasgow? Vaitsekhovskaya adds her voice
'Should Mustafina compete in Glasgow, considering her fragile state of health? - aren't the Olympics more important?' are the key themes of this brief news piece by Elena Vaitsekhovskaya, a top sports...
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World Gymnastics Championships 2015 - Russian team news
Denis Ablyazin - coach Sergei Starkin confirms that his preparations are going wellKeep your eyes peeled over the coming days and weeks for news of the Russian team. Offical nominative registrations...
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Dmitrieva to replace Mustafina in Glasgow
Dmitrieva in training this summer The Russian Worlds team line up changed today as Valentina Rodionenko announced via Tass that Aliya Mustafina would be replaced in Glasgow by Anastasia Dmitrieva....
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Worlds 2015 - Nominative registrations
1997 born Dmitri Lankin, a rising star on the men's teamThe FIG has now updated the nominative registration listings so you can have fun perusing them and seeing who are on the latest teams - there...
View ArticleValentina Rodionenko - 'Mustafina will have knee surgery after Glasgow'
In a report in Stadium.ru, Russia's head coach Valentina Rodionenko has revealed that Aliya Mustafina will travel to Germany post-Glasgow for surgery on her knee ligaments. The extent of the injury is...
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