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Maria Paseka training in Spain

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As you will probably know, the Russian WAG team has travelled to Mallorca for their annual active recreation. Aliya Mustafina, Viktoria Komova, Anna Dementyeva, Tatiana Nabieva and Maria Paseka are there, amongst others - a full list of the names to be confirmed. (Anastasia Grishina has had minor surgery and is travelling to Cyprus with her mother.)

The girls are working out their competition commitments for the coming months, with Anna planning to appear in Mexico in October, and Aliya beginning her assault on the next Olympic cycle in December in Stuttgart. They return to Moscow tomorrow, 17th September.

Meantime, Maria Paseka has been hard at work on the apparatus and is evidently preparing new skills for uneven bars and floors. See the video below and reflect on the nascent brilliance demonstrated. Markelov to Gienger combination? That's exciting stuff!!!

Maria Paseka training video on Youtube.

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  1. Anonymous16 September 2012 at 11:55

    She looking really good.

    I also glad to see Tatiana Nabiyeva there, she's a little inconsistence but when she's on Tatiana is really good, she could be a good player on UB (wonder if she will be doing the Nabiyeva again, that move is mind blowing!) and Vault. I also appreciate her sportsmanship she always seems to be rooting for the team and every individual team member; in fact what I miss during the Russian team from 2012 (EC and OG) was the team cohesion from the 2010(I miss seeing Semenova, Nabiyeva, Mustafina, Kurbatova, Afanasyeva "antics" on the apparatus' sideline when one of the other girls was performing) there's a chemistry between the 2010 team as a whole that seems to be absent in the 2012 team.
    Speaking of Afan, wasn't she supposed to be in Spain too? is there any news about her?

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  2. Anonymous16 September 2012 at 14:07

    and what about Sidorova?

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    1. Anonymous16 September 2012 at 18:18

      from this pic http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma8ej6V0jX1qdy44ao1_1280.jpg it looks like she's not there, I can ID Nabiyva, Alyona Polyan (?),Paseka, Mustafina, Yulia Belokobylskaya, Komova, Yulia Inshina (?), Anna Dementyeva (?).

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    2. M16 September 2012 at 23:03

      Nice seeing Paseka, even if she was falling left and right. It seems she is trying to improve her uneven bars as well.

      Nice seeing Nabs in the background, good that she is still doing Gymnastics.

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  3. Anonymous17 September 2012 at 18:44

    Sorry this video it's mine, From my account in youtube --> requena89
    Thanks!

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