Aliya Mustafina spent the last week training in Penza – the city where her main coach, Sergei Starkin, works. Local news filmed a feature about her training and talked to the gymnast herself and to one of her coaches, Pavel Pavlov. Yes, the very same Pavel Pavlov who Aliya used to date. Pavlov was a competitive gymnast of the national team for a number of years but apparently switched to coaching. He is now a member of Strakin’s coaching team and as such commented on Mustafina’s current progress, saying that she’s already doing about 70-70% of her difficulty.
Mustafina also commented on the fact that the training is still harder for her than it was before a break even though she’s been training for a few months now:
“For gymnastics, a year is a long break so the recovery is not going easy. I can’t say that the training is as easy as it was before [the break]”.
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