Aliya Mustafina might be human after all – yes, she got the second result in the all-around at the Russian Championships’ qualification just 10 months after giving birth, but she admitted to the media that getting through the whole competition was a bit hard for her and she got tired by the end:
“Of course, I got tired after this long competition but I’m very happy with how I performed here. As I already said it ended up being even better than I expected”.
“I won’t have a vacation after the Russian Championships, I’ll start training right away. I managed to do everything almost on every apparatus: I didn’t have falls on beam, I did my bar routine three times, I had a finished floor routine. Yes, today I withdrew from the floor final. It has nothing to do with any kind of illness, I just had to save myself a bit. I’m thinking about Worlds and Euros now, I intend to make the team”.
Photo: Russian Artistic Gymnastics Federation
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