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Vote for Olympic Bars Champion Aliya Mustafina!!!

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Aliya Mustafina winning gold in today's uneven bars final.  Picture by RIA Novosti
Vote for Olympic bars champion, 
Aliya Mustafina, as leader of Russia's team VTB!!!

Aliya was part of Russia's first gold medal winning gymnastics team ever in 2010, becoming all around champion in the same year, and has now won Russia's first gold medal in Olympic gymnastics since the year 2000.

Aliya, MALADYETS!!!!

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  1. M6 August 2012 at 16:50

    Yay for Aliya! I missed it :( ws too nervous to go watch it. Hopefully will see it later on.

    First gold for Russia since 2000? wow,

    Where do you vote for her?

    Congrats to Denis again he was really close to Gold in the vault. Congrats to Paseka for her bronze yesterday! forgot to say that.

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    1. Queen Elizabeth6 August 2012 at 16:56

      :-) I've added a link to 'vote' for you to click on.
      Enjoy.

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  2. Anonymous6 August 2012 at 19:09

    I'm very content for Musty ... I wish Komova were there on the podium too, I was in pain the see her out like that sigh ... hope she makes it on Beam ... Go Russia

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  3. Anonymous6 August 2012 at 20:26

    What a great performance by Mustafina. What a great event final today. Vault was a bit of a mess from everyone yesterday but bars was a great fight from several of the girls and Mustafina's routine was flawless. She deserved gold today!

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  4. Sofia6 August 2012 at 23:18

    So happy for Mustafina, so devastated for Komova, so not impressed by Douglas' extremely slanted piked Tkatchev.

    Also, slightly puzzled as to why Mustafina was wearing the same leo from team qualifications when Komova had a beautiful new one?

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    1. Anonymous13 August 2012 at 19:05

      I was more puzzled with fact that, during the Floor finals, Aliya come into the event with red uniform and left it with the white one. did she pack both?! 0-0

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  5. Javi7 August 2012 at 00:03

    This Gold Medal made my olympics by far...Mustafina has always been my fav gymnast ..she deserves it :-D

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  6. Anonymous7 August 2012 at 19:23

    And another bronze today, she has the most medals.

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  7. Anonymous8 August 2012 at 01:42

    Congratulations Aliya!! You have the most medals!! You are now my inspiration!

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  8. Anonymous8 August 2012 at 04:13

    I am happy for her, but thought her routine was boring compared to the others.

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  9. lilianamichelena8 August 2012 at 08:37

    I think you'll appreciate this:

    From ALL of the non-swimmer athletes at these Olympics, Tsarina Aliya is the most decorated, with an unmatched 4 medal count. And I don't think they'll get her on the next days.

    So... CHEERS people! Cheers, Aliya! You're golden!

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  10. Anonymous9 August 2012 at 17:04

    She won medals in every event she competed in, team, AA, bars and floor. If she had gone for the vault final as it turned out she could have done very well. Imagine what she would have done at full fitness.. Her confidence is just coming back too.

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