While Andrei Rodionenko said that gymnastics doesn’t have heroes anymore, Valentina Rodionenko disagrees: she called Aliya Mustafina who got third place in today’s qualification a hero. Mustafina finished with 55.432...
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At the press conference before the Russian Championships, Aliya Mustafina talked about competing for the first time after coming back: “The current Russian Championships will be very important for me because I took a break...
Elena Vaytshekhovskaya has published a great new interview with Aliya Mustafina on R-Sport. Here’s the English translation. Tracksuit, hair undone, a complete absence of makeup on her face and immense fatigue in the eyes. Only...
Russian Gymnastics Federation made a video about the preparations of the national team gymnasts for the Russian Championships that will start next week in Kazan. The video was filmed last Thursday when the women had a...
Valentina Rodionenko has told R-Sport that Aliya Mustafina may have her international comeback sooner than we expected as she is preparing to compete at Osijek Challenge Cup in Croatia (May 24-27). Mustafina also plans to compete...
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...
While Valentina Rodionenko is seemingly sensible about not rushing Elena Eremina’s recovery, Maria Paseka is not so lucky. Rodionenko said to TASS today that Paseka is expected to start training in May which would be less...
Pravda-News talked to Sergei Starkin, the personal coach of Aliya Mustafina and Denis Abliazin, about coaching. Starkin talked about not having a lot of choices when it came to being involved in gymnastics – a son of two...
Aliya Mustafina gave an interview to VTB, talking about her comeback to gymnastics, how she manages to combine training with raising a baby and what impressed her the most in gymnastics in 2017. Q: How are the first months after...
This is the moment we’ve been waiting for a month – despite being officially signed on December 21, Russian national team roster was only publicly announced today. The roster that lists the main team and the reserve...