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Russian Nationals EF - floor, beam - videos UPDATE - medal placings

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EF at the Russian Nationals this morning - beam and floor, rather than the advertised vault and a-bars. Mustafina did not compete on floor - rather wisely, I think.

I will post results as soon as they become available.

Update : Medallists have been confirmed from sight of the ceremony on streaming video as :

Beam - 1 Afanasyeva; 2 Grishina; 3 Goryunova
Floor - 1 Grishina; 2 Afanasyeva; 3 Belokobylskaya

But the wonderful DanyZ2012 is already posting video grabs of the live coverage this morning. I thoroughly recommend Grishina's floor to you - I think it must be her best routine since the Junior Euros two years ago.



I think she is getting her confidence back ...


Afanasyeva floor

Belokobylskaya floor

Inshina floor

Pavlova floor

Mustafina beam

In my book, Mustafina is allowed a fall.

Rodionova beam

Inshina beam

Afanasyeva beam

Oh glory be to the Goddess Afanasyeva who is even beginning to land vault like Boginskaya.

Belokobylskaya beam

We are playing guess on the scores and final placings for the moment ...
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  1. Lifje24 March 2012 at 10:49

    the results are up. It was finally not Inshina in third (you might have gotten that info from me). http://www.sportgymrus.ru/Admin/GetFile.ashx?get=1&id=16968

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    1. Queen Elizabeth24 March 2012 at 18:03

      Thanks for letting me know. I have corrected the post.
      It's a gorgeous day in London and I have been enjoying the sun - will post full updates tomo. x

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  2. Anonymous24 March 2012 at 14:47

    I hope this isnt a stupid question... but I always thought that the Russians trained together at one national training center. But here there were different teams competing against each other. How does that work?

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    1. Queen Elizabeth24 March 2012 at 18:12

      There are no stupid questions O:-)
      Members of the national team train at Lake Krugloye with the national coaches pretty much most of the time (I'm no expert on this but it's based on interviews and so on). Certainly in Olympic year the gymnasts will be there full time with the exception of planned breaks.
      All the gymnasts began their gymnastics lives at clubs in their home towns. Generally they will remain attached to this home team, their personal coach will be based there and they will return there for training when they are not at the national centre.
      So at Russian nationals the gymnasts compete for their regions. Eg Nabieva would compete for the St Petersburg team, Afanasyeva competes for Central as she hails from Tula and so on.
      If anyone knows any more, please post here ...

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  3. Anonymous24 March 2012 at 16:43

    thank you so so much for your work, again. I hope that it's recognized and widely appreciated. If Russians take gold in London (and I have a feeling that they will), it will be largely your achievement too, since your blog helped us fall in love with the girls and prompted the large number of prayers for their success.

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    1. Queen Elizabeth24 March 2012 at 18:17

      Thank you, it's very nice of you to say that.
      I write tge blog for myself to be honest - I love getting comments O:-)
      I also love the Russians, unashamedly - there is no one like them. I've been following them for 40 years and couldn't keep quiet any longer.

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    2. Anonymous24 March 2012 at 18:57

      gymnastics is a sport you live. I grew up living gymnastics, it has made me into a person I am today. I pray that following the journey of these girls inspires you in your own fight.

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