It looks more and more likely that Aliya Mustafina will have to miss the Russian Cup. The competition will take place at the end of the month and the gymnast’s training is still limited due to the injury. While last week...
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Last week Aliya Mustafina went to train in Penza instead of attending the World Cup in Osijek because of her knee injury. Pavel Pavlov was coaching her during that week as her main personal coach, Sergei Starkin, was in Osijek...
For those who were worried about Irina Alexeeva’s future as an international elite gymnast, you can breathe now, this month she was officially put on the Russian national team roster. The national team for the year is...
Last month Aliya Mustafina announced her divorce from Alexei Zaitsev on Instagram and said that she would not give any additional information besides what was already written in the post. However, her father, Fargat Mustafin...
Last week Sergei Starkin, Aliya Mustafina’s personal coach, announced that she had a meniscus injury which forced her to withdraw from the Osijek World Cup. While Starkin said that the injury is very minor and Mustafina...
Irina Alexeeva had a great showing at her first Russian Championships last month but originally wasn’t added to the national team and said that she would be back in Russia only at the end of June for the Russian Cup which...
Aliya Mustafina will miss the Osijek Challenge Cup next week because of a knee injury. She originally missed the national team training camp in Spain because she was preparing for the competition. However, today Sergei Starkin...
Viktoria Komova joined her teammate Angelina Melnikova at the local Voronezh radio station and talked about coming back from an injury and dealing with the fear, combining training and studies and working as a coach. She also...
Angelina Melnikova gave an interview to a local Voronezh radio station when she was briefly home after the Russian Championships. She talked about getting new routines, her daily schedule and how she feels about having Mustafina...
Valeri Alfosov, the head coach of the Russian men’s national team, told TASS that Nikita Ignatyev has recovered from his shoulder injury and will join the team at the training camp in Spain. Ignatyev had to withdraw from...