Skip to main content

Russian team predictions from Valentina

Image
By
Ksenia Afanasyeva in podium training yesterday


Reserves are confirmed at this stage as Dmitri Lankin and Evgeniya Shelgunova.

Competing AA will be - WAG - Daria Spiridonova and Seda Tutkhalyan; MAG - Nikita Ignatyev, David Belyavski and Nikolai Kuksenkov

It will be tough for the men's team as the top six are extremely competitive.  To be realistic, the men are not likely to finish in the top three.  The American men are very strong, also the Chinese and Japanese, other teams - she mentions Brazil.

The women can compete for one of the top places.  Of course the Americans are out of reach but they are on the same level as the Chinese and Romanians so there is a chance.  But they will have to be clean.

On the AA, it's another picture; the gymnasts can compete for a medal.  For the men, David Belyavski and Nikita Ignatyev.  It will be harder for the women as both Daria and Seda do not yet have extensive international senior experience.

It is expected that Viktoria Komova will compete in three apparatus (vault, bars, beam).  Ksenia Afanasyeva has the ability to perform at the level of a medal in floor, and Maria Paseka on vault.  The odds on Seda Tutkhalyan AA are longer, but she does have one apparatus - beam - where if she performs without error, she has a difficult routine and may be in the battle for a medal.

David Belyavski has a good routine on p bars, and Denis Ablyazin on floor, rings and vault.  They expect a good competition and a medal from Nikita Ignatyev - perhaps on high bar or on p bars.  

This is really only a preliminary assessment of the team's readiness - there are still a few days left to polish the routines.

source : http://www.allsportinfo.ru/index.php?id=98577

I think Valentina's ideas are pretty much what I would say - nothing unexpected.  Good luck to all the gymnasts!  We are looking forward to supporting you!
Labels:

Comments

  1. Anonymous23 October 2015 at 15:32

    What happened to Kharenkova as an AA gymnast?

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Queen Elizabeth23 October 2015 at 20:48

      1. She is fragile psychologically
      2. She has only a FTY, not good enough for Russia in terms of their need to qualify for Rio as a team.
      3. She wouldn't medal AA anyway.

      Delete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Remembering last summer - Nelli Kim, her judges and Viktoria Komova

By
In view of Nelli Kim's recent interview , Lupita and I thought it timely to revisit the performance of some of the WTC President's judges over past competitions ... this article from 27th August 2012 is reposted here, as a reminder. You will find a link to the FIG's newly published book of results at the Olympic Games here .  This year, they have broken down the judge's execution scores so you can see exactly how each judge evaluated the gymnasts' performances.  It makes for interesting reading - if only I had more time to analyse each judge's marking.  A skim reading already highlights multiple inconsistencies in individual judges' marks and makes you wonder why they bother with the jury at all. I have taken the time to look at the reference judges' scores for the top four in the women's all around.  The FIG explains here what their role is, and how they are selected.  I even used my calculator, which is a risky thing in my hands.  M...
42 comments
Read more

Nelli Kim - 'Russian gymnastics has closed in on itself' - Lupita translates

By
Lupita has translated this ITAR-TASS interview with Nelli Kim.  It's controversial, to say the least. Ed's note : much of the initial response to this interview - both here and in the wider gymternet -  has focussed on the detail of Kim's words and especially her comments about Viktoria Komova, and smiling.  But I think these have to be taken in context, and not too literally. Don't forget that just a day ago Andrei Rodionenko complained bitterly about the judging in Antwerp, calling Kim's behaviour 'aggressive'. Kim is responding to this here, and to the wider current context of Russian gymnastics.  What she is essentially saying to the Russian coach is 'get your own house in order, produce confident, disciplined, well trained gymnasts - stop complaining, do your job, and I will do mine.'   She goes about saying this in a somewhat long winded way and says some things along the way that seem contradictory, unfair, inappropriate even for th...
30 comments
Read more

Pongo’s predictions for Russia MAG in Rotterdam

By
Pongo is my AI assistant.  Read here his calculations of who might make the best Russian MAG team at the World Championships in October.  Please do feel free to disagree audibly, in the comments and note that Pongo admits, even he makes mistakes.  I don’t generally write such statistical material, so this may be a one off. With apologies for any errors, mine entirely and I wrote the brief.   Yes. I’ve treated this as a genuine team-construction problem , rather than simply taking the six gymnasts with the highest AA scores. For the calculation I used the most recent strong competitive score available for each gymnast: the Spartakiad scores for Yakubov, Novikov and Kisel , and mainly European Championship team-final/final scores for Dukhno, Marinov, Zaika and Sieedin , supplemented by Russian Championship scores where a recent European score was not available. That matters because Dukhno and Marinov, for example, were substantially stronger in Zagreb than some earlier...
Post a Comment
Read more

RRG Archive - scroll by date, from 2024 to 2010

Show more