Skip to main content

Aliya Mustafina videos, Stella Zakharova Cup

Image
By
Aliya competed this weekend in Ukraine - probably our last chance to see her before Euros in just over two weeks' time.  I haven't seen full results yet but even with a fall on floor, Aliya won the all around, with Russia taking gold in the team competition ahead of Ukraine and Japan.  Competing with her on the Russian team were Anna Dementyeva and Polina Fedyorova.  Ukraine's Oleg Vernaev won the men's competition, leading the winning team ahead of Russia and the Netherlands.

Thanks to Alexandra Kuznetsova for videos, and for the pictures in this press report. 


Aliya Mustafina floor



Aliya Mustafina uneven bars




Aliya Mustafina beam



Aliya looks to be concentrating on developing new combinations for her beam routine and I guess that her competition goals this year are somewhat longer term than Moscow Europeans which are coming earlier in the year than usual. I'm feeling a replay of 1987 Europeans may be on the cards, with the feisty veteran looking vulnerable here while younger gymnasts take centre stage.
Labels:

Comments

  1. Anonymous31 March 2013 at 16:29

    Where's the arabian? :(

    ReplyDelete
  2. Anonymous31 March 2013 at 18:00

    I hope Aliya adds the double layout for the worlds and gets rid off of one her twist. Also, I think she is on the Boginskaya stage where she thinks she can choreograph her on routines. That or she doesn't have a choreographer or they don't want to bother with her and that is why they are reusing the falling and rolling part.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Anonymous31 March 2013 at 21:11

    She's saving the Arabian for the Euro's, but her balance beam was still fantastic.

    ReplyDelete
  4. M1 April 2013 at 02:46

    Thanks for the videos. She is looking in great shape for the Euros. I just don't want her to push herself more than necessary,

    ReplyDelete
  5. Anonymous2 April 2013 at 02:54

    That was a half-assed floor routine. She looked bored as hell while dancing and barely saluted at the end. At least try to look slightly energetic?

    ReplyDelete
  6. Anonymous2 April 2013 at 03:04

    Love the videos,she is looking stronger than ever like a Mustang!despair her 2011 knee injury?She'll be allright for the Euros GO!!!!!MUSTAFINA#1;)They sould "GIVER GOLD"for being so beautifull!!:)

    ReplyDelete
  7. Anonymous2 April 2013 at 03:11

    Thanks very much for all the news and videos. I check your blog every day and I'm grateful that you spend so much time and effort to keep us up to date.

    ReplyDelete
  8. Anonymous2 April 2013 at 10:32

    She doesn't look in great shape for the Euros, but with Alka it's always down to weight. Few pounds less and she'll be unstoppable. Will miss Vika though...

    ReplyDelete
  9. Anonymous2 April 2013 at 13:09

    Why doesn't she rest for a few months and upgrade vault and floor? Euros are in two weeks. Her choreography has never been so weak!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Anonymous5 April 2013 at 15:47

      totally agree with you, let's hope she saves the big skills for euros and only performed watered down routines on this meet.

      Delete
  10. Anonymous5 April 2013 at 15:43

    I want to say that she'll dominate euros but that floor routine looks so weak compared to her routines from london or rotterdam..

    ReplyDelete
  11. Anonymous6 April 2013 at 20:55

    That's right she looks like low selfesteem on her floor routine.But I like her fall an roll,Specially her stretch right after following the fall & roll.It looks like she doing the same thing over & over!!!!She should Master the routine by know??? Don't worry sweety we all LUV "U" "GO Aliya" Vika will get well soon! See her at the Euros!!
    CHino Luv;)

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

UPDATE 23/9 - Russian WAG team for Nanning confirmed

By
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...
57 comments
Read more

Andrei Rodionenko explains Russia's performance at Worlds - Lupitatranslates

By
Rodionenko with European Champion David Belyavski  Courtesy RGF/Elena Mikhailova This is the interview that many people on the internet have already commented on, regarding Andrei Rodionenko's alleged racism.  The original, Russian language version, appears on VTB Bank's website (VTB are sponsors of Russian gymnastics).  It takes cleverer people than me to decide what is racism, what is deliberately perjorative, and what is inferred in an interviewer's question.  For now, I will not comment on this, therefore, but I would ask you to read Lupita's translation carefully before you form your own opinion.   I am providing some links below which might help you to decide where you stand. Definition of racism Definition of sexism BBC Sport article by Matthew Syed : Is it wrong to note that 100m winners are always black?            Updated 24/10 CSKA Moscow: UEFA opens racist chants case         ...
48 comments
Read more

Does Komova need gymnastics?

By
Komova - a prodigious talent for performance I have been pondering the nature of gymnastics talent recently, while viewing some videos of 1992 competitions on YouTube - you can find links to them if you like, by visiting RRG's Facebook page. What was it that made the Soviets so outstanding?  In the videos, you will see three champions, side by side, each competing close to perfect routines almost every time they hit the podium.  No sprung floor, no vaulting table, a Code that (1) required compulsory as well as optional routines to be prepared, (2) encouraged innovation in single moves of extreme difficulty, (3) required balanced performances of artistic as well as technical merit, and (4) recognised and rewarded virtuosity.   The three champions I am speaking of each satisfied the Code in different ways: Boguinskaia had unique and incredible grace and amplitude; Lyssenko expressed emotional intensity through an amazing combination of power, difficulty and artistry; Gutsu ...
21 comments
Read more

RRG Archive - scroll by date, from 2024 to 2010

Show more