Valentina Rodionenko gave an interview to Sergei Smyshlyaev from RIA Novosti with updates on the national team gymnasts, the preparation for Euros and the plans for Worlds. Q: The women’s team has arrived in Glasgow for the...
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It’s not Russian gymnastics if there’s no drama. Today, Valentina Rodionenko announced the senior WAG team for Euros and explained that one of the reasons for not selecting Viktoria Komova was her recurrent back...
It seems like Valentina Rodionenko goes through phases with Aliya Mustafina: sometimes Aliya can do no wrong and sometime Aliya’s fat, lazy, and stubborn. One of the previous “bad Aliya” phases ended with...
Valentina Rodionenko never fails to meet our expectations and to give a controversial comment to the media. This time she said that if Aliya Mustafina will not compete at the Russian Cup (which starts in three weeks), she likely...
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...
Valentina Rodionenko said to TASS that Aliya Mustafina will miss the national team training camp in Spain. The team left for Spain today and the camp will last till May 16th. Mustafina likely didn’t want to be away from her...
Valentina Rodionenko talked to Stadium.ru about the results of the Russian Championships. She said that at the moment the men were better prepared than the women and that she was surprised by the floors on beam and bars (as if...
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...
WOGA’s Irina Alexeeva had a good competition in the qualifications at the Russian Championships today except for the fall on beam. She ended up in 7th place with 53.732 surpassing some of the girls currently on the national...