Valentina Rodionenko announced to TASS this morning that Anastasia Ilyankova is definitely staying on the Worlds team. Ilyankova’s back pain prevented her from training for a week and the coaches had doubts whether the gymnast would be able to recover and get back her routines, however, by the end of this week, she returned to the regular training schedule.
According to Rodionenko, “the back pain is gone, the gymnast is already doing all her combinations in training. I don’t want to jinx it, but right now we don’t have any reason to replace her with another gymnast”.
