I'm pleased to confirm that the Russian Gymnastics Federation is providing live streaming for the important Russia Cup competition. Go to the RGF website and follow the link, which will be in red when the transmission is live (if you can read Cyrillic the word you are looking for is 'translatsya'). The second session of the women's competition (tomorrow) will begin at 2.45 Penza time.
Start lists for today's competition (MAG) and tomorrow's (WAG) have been released at the website also. I am providing an image of the WAG Olympic selection squad's working order below. Of particular note is Anastasia Grishina, who will be performing on bars only due to leg pain. Thus with the exception of Grishina, Maria Paseka and Tatiana Nabieva, who will both present on bars and vault only, all other national squad members will compete all four pieces of apparatus. Head coach Andrei Rodionenko has said that at the Olympics the WAG selection strategy will focus on team qualification and team finals rather than on event specialists, as at the European Championships. He mentions Viktoria Komova as being in 'optimal' form.
This will be the first time that Komova and returning World Champion Aliya Mustafina will meet head to head this year. We will also have a chance to see whether Ksenia Afanasyeva and Anna Dementyeva have regained form after problems with illness and injury earlier in the year.
Start lists for today's competition (MAG) and tomorrow's (WAG) have been released at the website also. I am providing an image of the WAG Olympic selection squad's working order below. Of particular note is Anastasia Grishina, who will be performing on bars only due to leg pain. Thus with the exception of Grishina, Maria Paseka and Tatiana Nabieva, who will both present on bars and vault only, all other national squad members will compete all four pieces of apparatus. Head coach Andrei Rodionenko has said that at the Olympics the WAG selection strategy will focus on team qualification and team finals rather than on event specialists, as at the European Championships. He mentions Viktoria Komova as being in 'optimal' form.
This will be the first time that Komova and returning World Champion Aliya Mustafina will meet head to head this year. We will also have a chance to see whether Ksenia Afanasyeva and Anna Dementyeva have regained form after problems with illness and injury earlier in the year.
Awesome thanks for posting. Will do my best to try and find the live feed, lol.
ReplyDeleteI am going to try and convert Penza time into Eastern time so I know what time the women are going.
I am so excited I can barely contain it. I worked my work schedule around this competition. GO RUSSIA.
ReplyDeletePlease can you write the link to the live streaming. That would be extremely helpful but don't worry if not. Thank you.
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DeleteHope it works!! Good luck.
Who do you think will show their Amanar?
ReplyDeleteHmmmm ... Paseka. Not Nabieva. Sidorova?
ReplyDeleteI think Komova will not show hers.
What do you think?
I think Paseka. Nabieva did it poorly when she was in shape, I doubt she will be doing it better now. I don't think either Komova or Mustafina will be showing theirs. I would have liked one of them to learn the Cheng, I prefer the Cheng to the Amanar.
ReplyDeleteI am not sure they will show their full routines at this meet, at least I hope not.
WAG is tomorrow, right? I just want to be sure I'm not missing any videos.
ReplyDeleteI would love if you could do update on how the competition is going. Love the new look.
Today will be women's team finals
Delete16.45 - 18.30
Compare to you re country time : )
14.06.2012 Mag All around
16.30-19.00
15.06.2012 Wag All around
16.30-18.30
16.06.2012 Mag and Wag events
12.00-16.10
17.06.2012 Mag and Wag events
13.00-15.20