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Komova out of Europeans - link to full official translation

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A fuller version of the story appearing on IG appears now in English language on the Russian Federation's website.

Much of the nuts and bolts of the translation regarding Viktoria's injury remains the same, including the fairly confident sounding hope that she will be ready to compete at the Moscow World Cup in May, so fingers crossed.  Valentina Rodienenko also confirms that Mustafina, Nabieva, Dementieva, Golutsotskov, Devyatovski, Ignatiev, Balandin, Garibov and Ablyazin will travel to Paris for this weekend's World Cup.  That's the declared European Championships team, minus Yulia Belokobylskaya who is said elsewhere to be travelling instead to Italy for the Jesolo Cup.  Which makes this weekend potentially interesting gymnastics reading.

What is a little different, however, is the translation of the comment regarding Aliya Mustafina's participation in the American Cup this year.  This now reads:

"Aliya is very tired after the world cup event. That's America. We were expecting them to do some things not quite in line with sportsmanship. But everyone saw that Aliya's new programme is good. She fell a bit ill before leaving for America and that played a role, too".

Well, I think it's pretty clear what she thinks about the result of the American Cup.   But that is pretty unimportant relative to the upcoming European Championships, where I'm sure the Russians will want to do well against a likely resurgent Romanian team.  If one good thing comes of Viktoria's nasty injury, it could be the potential question mark her absence will put over the results of these early season competitions.

And we really don't know yet what will happen in a competition between Mustafina and Dementieva ... fire and ice?
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