Qualification results are now available at the Russian gymnastics federation website . Anna Dementyeva features in the top three on bars, beam and floor with Afanasyeva providing some good back up on beam and floor and Kurbatova featuring reasonably soundly on bars and vault. Chusovitina leads vault, Seitz bars, Millousi beam and Dementyeva floor. The Russian team looks reasonably assured of at least some medals at this relatively modest competition. Link here to a video report from Vesti in the run up to the competition, featuring footage of Mustafina training bars in a heavy leg brace and Afanasyeva training beam. There are brief interviews with Mustafina and Dementyeva; Komova appears in the background, looking reasonably fit to me - could see no evidence of ankle strapping. Golutsotskov is also featured. Find here a brief news story in which Valentina Rodionenko suggests Nabieva's absence is due to minor injury.
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