Viktoria Komova is unexpectedly making her international comeback (well, technically, Voronin Cup was an international competition, but…) this weekend at the DTB Pokal Team challenge in Stuttgart.
Last week Komova mentioned during a live stream on Instagram that she was originally supposed to go to Stuttgart but her coach decided against it and she was not listed on the nominative team. However, one of the team members, new senior Valeria Saifullina, got injured and Komova came in as a last-minute replacement (it’s nice to have an Olympic silver medalist as your reserve gymnast, isn’t it?). There has been no news yet regarding how serious Saifullina’s injury is.
Other team members are Maria Kharenkova, Lilia Akhaimova, Anastasia Ilyankova, and Viktoria Gorbatova.
The men’s team consists of Artur Dalaloyan, Sergei Eltsov, Nikita Ignatyev, Dmitry Lankin and Aleksey Rostov.
Angelina Melnikova will represent Russian in the all-around World Cup that’s taking place in Stuttgart as well. David Beliavskiy will also compete in the World Cup.
The World Cup and the team finals will be live-streamed here.
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