Valentina Rodionenko confirmed that the national team still intends to send gymnasts to the quad meet in Japan in November and the gymnasts have arrived at Round Lake for the training camp before the competition:
“Of course, we’re going to Japan on November 5th-8th, we confirmed the registration. As long as there won’t be coronavirus and nothing gets closed, that’s the most important thing. All athletes are coming to the training camp today, we had a four-day break. Our camps always take place at Round Lake training center, no one’s bothering us for now.”
According to TASS, the competition will take place at Yoyogi National Gymnasium and will be open to spectators but the number of spectators will be limited to 2000 people, only a part of the arena’s capacity. Since Japan currently requires all arrivals from abroad to quarantine for 14 days, there will be special measures to circumvent this requirement. Gymnasts will have to isolate at their training centers at home for 14 days before flying to Japan and will have to take COVID-19 tests. They will fly in several days before the competition and their movement in Japan will be restricted to the hotel and competition and training venues.
Russia, Japan, China and the US are supposed to send WAG and MAG teams to the event that is being facilitated by the FIG. Russia was the first country to announce the teams for the event: Nikita Nagornyy, Artur Dalaloyan, Dmitrii Lankin, and Alexey Rostov for MAG and Angelina Melnikova, Liliia Akhaimova, Elena Gerasimova, and Yana Vorona for WAG.
