Enjoy this video of the Russian national gymnastics team in training in Lake Krugloye. Seen here : Denis Ablyazin, Yevgenia Shelgunova, Maria Paseka with tumbling coach Vasily Ivanov (practising a straight double front), Aliya Mustafina, Valentina Rodionenko, Vikto ria Komova (with coach Gennady Elfimov), Ekaterina Baturina with choreographer Olga Burova, newly appointed beam choreographer Marina Bulashenko with WAG junior head coach Olga Bulgakova, senior WAG head coach Evgeny Grebenkin, Ekaterina Kramarenko practising bars with Grebenkin. The gymnasts will take a week's break now and then return again to Lake Krugloye to prepare for Russian Championships, which will qualify the team travelling to European Championships (Moscow, 17th to 21st April). Not surprisingly, the Russians plan to send full teams to Europeans (6 men, 4 women, do not forget that these are the individual European Championships with no team competition). For the men, this is an important com...
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