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Aliya Mustafina : 'I really enjoy working with Sergei Valerivich'

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An interview with Aliya, who is attending the competition in Penza; some brief coverage of the MAG competition; and a conversation with the Head of Burtasy School of Gymnastics, Valeri Starkin, can be found here - 
http://www.penza-press.ru/lenta-novostey/73763/aliya-mustafina-priehala-v-penzu-na-chr-po-sportivnoj-gimnastike

'I really enjoy working with Sergei Valerivich' says Aliya of her new coaching arrangement, adding that it is great to have someone to help.  In an earlier interview she has said she and Sergei Starkin, who also coaches world gold medallist Denis Ablyazin, are working on upgrades to her bars and floor exercises.  She and Ablyazin train at separate times, in separate gyms; it is important to have the one to one attention of a coach, Aliya says.

Valeri Starkin, Sergei's father and recently appointed to the national coaching staff, commented on the good atmosphere and competition, here in his home gym.  The Volga Federal District team (Pavlov, Kazachkov, Stepanov, Polyashov, Ablyazin, Belyavski) won the team event in today's competition.  Siberia came second.  Full results can be found at http://sportgymrus.ru/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/c1_team5_m.pdf

2013 European Champion, David Belyavski, won the men's AA.  Full results are here - http://sportgymrus.ru/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/mnogobor-e-muzhchiny-.pdf
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