Aliya Mustafina to compete in Stuttgart World Cup

               The official site of the Stuttgart World Cup announced a preliminary list of gymnasts who are enlisted for the competition. We still need to wait for an official confirmation but for now we know that Aliya Mustafina, world and Olympic champion is enlisted to compete along with Romania's Larisa Iordache, Italians Vanessa Ferrari and Carlotta Ferlito, Swiss Giulia Steingruber and German Elisabeth Seitz.

                  For now we don't have any more details but as soon as we will find any we will keep you posted

Source http://www.enbwdtbpokal.de/

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Tatiana Nabieva resumes training

Good news for Russian gymnastics fans especially for Tatiana Nabieva fans. The gymnasts recently upload a a picture on her Instagram saying that she had finish the first training session.

We remind you that Tatiana injured during Antwerp World Championship where she hit her forehead during a training session.

Tatiana joins Anastasia Grishina and Viktoria Komova in training camps. Unfortunately no word about Maria Paseka injury.

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Russian gymnasts to compete in Elite Gym Massilia

     This weekend France will hold the 4^th edition the Elite Gym Massilia, competition which will reunite gymnasts from France, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Romania and Russia.

      The Russians will be represented by the 2008 Olympian Ecaterina Kramarenco, Evgenia Shelgynova – junior champion whit Russia and AA junior champion, Alla Sosnitskaya and Anna Rodionova, who competed in Antwerp.

      The competition seems a very interesting one and a good opportunity for the youngest gymnasts to gain experience along with consecrated seniors like Larisa Iordache, Ecaterina Kramarenco or Rebecca Downie.

Elite Gym Massilia is actually based on two competition. The Saturday Master will reunite all 5 teams and other 4 from the Open Massilia (a competition dedicated to gymnasts over the age of 13). Each team will line up 4 gymnasts, the final scoring been based on the best 3 out of 4 system. Sunday will be the Top Massilia competition, apparatus finals.

    Here is the schedule of the competition:

               

    MASTER – Saturday – 16 of November from 16:00 local time

    TOP MASSILIA – Sunday – 17 of November from 15:00 local time  

For more information about the competition visit their website 

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Lidia Ivanova: I believe in Mustafina like I believe in God

The two-time Olympic champion and gymnastics merited coach of the USSR and Russia, Lidia Ivanova explained in an exclusive interview for Sportbox.ru, after the Antwerp World Championship, the reasons of her confidence in a Russian success in the Netherlands.

“Before the start of the championship we were warned that we shouldn’t wait for hight expectations because of the injuries and sickness that surrounded the team. But I was sure that with Aliya Mustafina in Antwerp, we wouldn’t be left without a medal. I believe in this athlete, like I believe in God. She has all the qualities that are inherent in the present athletes: talent, perseverance, confidence and the ability to perform. And Alia did not disappoint. It was evident that she had some hard times on this competition. But she tried. In the All-Around Aliya was so confident of gaining a shell to the projectile that if she still had a couple of routines left, she would have caught up and overtaken the Americans. Aliya adequately presented the entire Russian gymnastics in this tournament.” said Ivanova

- How to evaluate the début of another Russian who competed in the All Around and balance beam finals, Anna Rodionova?

- Anya – well done. She gave her best on this competition establishing herself as a world-class athlete. Yes, on the beam final Rodionova finished on the 8th place, due  to the fall . But in Antwerp we also so much more experienced athletes falling on beam – such as Romanian gymnast Larisa Iordache. Anna has great prospects ahead of her if she will work harder.

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Aliya Mustafina won the October "Golden Pedestal"

London’s Olympic  champion. Aliya Mustafina outscored the weightlifting champion Ruslan  Albegova in an open poll, in a dispute over the title of the best athlete of October. According to the results of voting that ended on Monday  evening in the program “Big Sport”, the audience TC “Russia 2″ and visitors Sportbox.ru gave Mustafina 50.3% of the vote.

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After missing the World Championship, Anastasia Grishina has big plans for the future

After missing the World Championship in Antwerp due to an injury, Anastasia Grishina, the silver medallist from London, told International Gymnast Magazine that she resume her training and has big plans for 2014.

"My coach and I have big plans to make my program more complicated, if only health allows and no injuries happen along the way"  said Anastasia, who is currently trained by  Viktor Razumovsky and Irina Razumovskaya, two of the most prestigious coaches in  Russia.

"I had a back injury because of the intense training sessions. This began at the Russian Cup in August, and before Antwerp it became  even more  serious. I had aggravated the injury so much that, not only could I not compete, but I could not take a step. So the  decision on not putting me on the team came naturally. Now I've recovered from the injury and everything is fine with me. I am  already going to training. My plans for the future are, of course, the Russian championships, European championships and world  championships".

Anastasia also commented on her youngest team mate Anna Rodionova, stating that she is young and she needs more experience  "Anya  is a very young gymnast. She had no experience competing in (major) international competitions, even the European championships."

After receiving tons of messages for appreciation and support, Grishina could not forget the ones that support and encouraged her during her hard times.

"I can only say big thanks to everyone who is awaiting for my performances and seeing me on the podium. And I want to give a big    'thank you' to my fans for their support and love."

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