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...
Oh God!( on the weekend russia gymnastic team are traveling to Rio.
ReplyDeleteNever thought that i would say or write it, but rn i hate all about Olympic Games, WADA, IAAF , CAS and so on, bcz they killing the spirit of de Coubertin OG, the spirit of clean and fair Olympics without politics!
ReplyDeleteWOW. Some of the provisional measure seem very damning.
ReplyDelete* The IOC will not organise or give patronage to any sports event or meeting in Russia.
* The IOC will not grant any accreditation to any official of the Russian Ministry of Sport or any person implicated in the IP Report for the Games of the XXXI Olympiad Rio 2016.
* The IOC asks all International Olympic Winter Sports Federations to freeze their preparations for major events in Russia, such as World Championships, World Cups or other major international competitions under their responsibility, and to actively look for alternative organisers.
Todd
Vitaly Mutko won't be travelling to Rio.
DeleteOtherwise, I feel really sorry for the gymnasts. It must be almost impossible to train sensibly without knowing where you will even be in less than a week's time.
The chart I saw in the report did not show Gymnastics as one of the sports. SO hopefully that will be a big bonus in the girls favor.
DeleteThe biggest sports federation on that chart was Athletics, which has already issued their ruling. Weightlifting was a close 2nd and I know they were waiting for this report to make their ruling. It then dropped off substantially to the 3rd sport on the list, wrestling.
I think each sports federation should make their own rulings here.
Todd
Vitaly Mutko has been a complete disaster for Russian sports, if he isn't directly involved in this awful doping scandal, most likely he turned a blind eye for it, and now this mess is screwing with the athletes lives and he is just spineless. I heard he met the gymnasts yesterday...at this point I wouldn't even get close to him. Yikes. Russia will take many years to recover from this huge moral damage, and the athletes will suffer most. :(
DeleteI know! They won't get rid of him because he has heavy ties to FIFA and Russia is hosting the next World Cup in 2018. But it is going to drag every other sport down even further because other organizations have made it more than clear they want him gone before they can start cooperating with Russia.
Deleteoh boy… if worse comes to worse I hope Aliya Mustafina could compete individually at the Olympics , question is would she want to , and would Russia let her?
ReplyDeletelol , thanks anonymous for "quoting???" me :P
Deletenew FIG new about Russian ban from Rio, now from president of the FIG Athletes Commission, Jani Tanskanen http://www.fig-gymnastics.com/site/figNews/view?id=1609
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