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Viktoria has travelled to these games, but isn’t competing AA or at full strength.  She’ll be supporting her team, and she says she will also be following the international teams here.

In Sovietski Sport, senior coach Valentina Rodionenko explains:

‘ Senior coach of the Russian national artistic gymnastics team Valentina Rodionenko spoke about the condition of Victoria Listunova, who was not allowed to fully compete at the BRICS Games. 

💬We are taking care of Victoria Listunova, I will tell you honestly. We are under the supervision of doctors, because she has a problem. We were given time so that we would not burden her with elements that are difficult for her specific section of the spine. Now we specifically did not allow her to compete, although she is very eager. You know, doctors tell us not to rush, and we listen to them. Now she was going through, I tell her: "Vika, calm down, no need." I think that she will be suitable for the Cup in Novosibirsk. She needs gentle elements, especially the bars and the vault. There is a very large load on this section of the spine, exactly where she has a weak spot. We need her in the big picture, and not when she will endure pain. We need her to train with pleasure and not through pain. “I think everything will be fine,” Sovetsky Sport correspondent Denis Babin reports Rodionenko as saying.’

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