Anna Rodionova will compete in her first Worlds this autumn. News of Russia's embattled WAG team is now being confirmed in the Russian press, and we are all grateful to Lupita for translating the key points from this article , an interview with team coach Evgeny Grebyonkin. 1) Dementyeva is not going to retire. She went home and has now decided to continue. 2) Komova is recovering in hospital (note: I have read elsewhere that she will leave hospital on the 27th September, but won't be able to train for anything up to two or three months). In a mock competition prior to her illness, she had scored more than 60 points all around. 3) Afanasyeva will compete in Mexico in November. Surgery went well. 4) Mustafina has a cold. She has upgraded bars, beam and floor and has added a vault (note: elsewhere , Mustafina's bars D value is said to be 6....
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