Daria Spiridonova will compete at her first World Championships this autumn. Picture : RGF Natalia Kalugina has confirmed the Russian team for Nanning : Aliya Mustafina, Maria Kharenkova, Tatiana Nabieva,Ekaterina Kramarenko, Alla Sosnitskaya, Daria Spiridonova. Reserve : Polina Fyodorova Here is a paraphrased translation of a comment by Natalia Kalugina on her Facebook page : 'Aliya has confidence in competition and she is, kind of, a coach to this team. In Europe she succeeded in this role and she has told the coaches that she even liked it. The main fighting force will be Kharenkova, Sosnitskaya and Spiridonova. Accordingly, the strongest apparatus will be beam (Marina Bulashenko With God!). The Chinese women, of course, have been known to win that apparatus, but if one falls, they all fall. Alla Sosnitskaya could compete in the vault final, and - in theory - on the floor. On bars, of course, Russia will probably lose to the Chinese women, but the...
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Nice little interview. I always liked her.
ReplyDeleteHere is an interesting interview with Aliya and it seems her dad as well. If Lupita ever gets a chance to translate it that would be great :), even if it's only Musty's parts. From what I understand from google translate she had back pain from middle of february and all of March. Also seems she was to only do vault and UB. However, I am not sure.
ReplyDeleteHere is the link http://summer.sport-express.ru/gymnastics/reviews/24055/
Sad story to her as both her parents are dead and she is an only child but she has turned out really well, she's soo pretty. What an enjoyable gymnast she was to watch
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