I awoke this morning to a very simple statement from Viktoria Komova, on her vk.com site, which Papa Liukin has translated (via the IG forum): 'Dear friends, fans, and gymnastics lovers. Unfortunately back pain isn't allowing me to train to my full potential and get ready for competitions. I've made the very difficult decision to stop training and take care of my health. I want to thank everyone for their support! Without your love and warmth it would've been more difficult to go all the way. Thanks everyone and see you soon! Love and kisses.' Well, first of all, good wishes and best of luck to Viktoria, who has struggled since 2012 to re-establish herself fully as a competitive gymnast, whose talent was so great that she secured gold on bars at two different World Championships, four years apart, whose career was littered with controversy, who must be allowed to live her life as she wishes. I know that the 'gymternet' will now be overflowing...
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Queen Elizabeth you should be crowned! Thank you so much!
ReplyDeleteThank you!
ReplyDeleteI am already wearing my tiara (less heavy than a crown).
However, I think that the feed is now down due to weight of traffic.
Trust the Russians to underestimate how much we love them!
actually it worked just fine for me. beautiful sets by Aliya, so glad to see her on all four events! No Mustafina dismount (but a double full was stuck nonetheless) on the bars and a little correction on the low bar, but aside from that a gorgeous routine. her beam was relatively simple, but so very clean. I had some technical difficulty when it came to her floor and since there was no music, I'm not sure whether she did a new routine.. it looked a bit different. her passes are still quite easy but the height is back! and also on the vault- I think she did two- Yurchenko and either a FTY or DTY I wasn't sure, because the angle was weird. Grishina fell twice but her floor was gorgeous. Well, the girls are taking it easy but they're definitely on the right track.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for update. I have been in a meeting so wouldn't have seen it anyway. Very glad to hear that Mustafina is doing so well. Will try to find results later on! Would you mind posting any information you hear?
ReplyDeleteThanks again. x
I barely speak Russian, but here are the first three: Aliya Mustafina 59.something, Ksenia Afanasyeva 58.something, Anastasia Grishina 57.something. The competition has just come to a close. I didn't get a chance to see Afanasyeva's full floor due to a technical problem, but first two passes looked gorgeous. Strong bars and beam. Anna Pavlova did all four events cleanly, but with lack of difficulty. No sign of Nabieva. Belokobylskaya looked quite strong, but I didn't see too much of her. Same with Inshina.
ReplyDeletei've already posted sooo much info on the IG forum (so go there for more info about the meet, also all results are on RGF) but i wanted to leave these links for videos here:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/user/DanyZ2012
http://www.youtube.com/user/yannaGym
Thank you soooo much. I really appreciate your effort in posting this information here as soon as you can.
ReplyDeleteI have put a post up now with the detailed results and videos. Keep reading and commenting.
I'm so so pleased that Aliya is back. I was choking up earlier thinking of what it must have taken to recover.