Evgeny Grebyonkin and Aliya Mustafina. Courtesy RGF 'Nobody explained anything' Yevgeny Grebyonkin, head coach of the women’s gymnastics teams, gave an interview to Sovetski Sport about the thriller that took place today after Aliya Mustafina’s performance who became World Champion. Two inquiries were submitted at the same time by the Russian delegation and by the USA. Russia tried to challenge Mustafina’score, whose D score was downgraded for some unclear reason. The Americans challenged Ross’ score. 'Our inquiry was taken, although the score was not changed. Yet Ross’score was changed. Why was it so? I don’t know. Nobody explained anything to us. Generally they don’t explain anything, they take the inquiry, and if they agree on the complaint, it is posted on the board. We didn’t see any changes in Mustafina’s score.' It didn’t have any consequences, because Iordache, the favourite, fell off beam. If Iordache had ...
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