Aliya Mustafina won the "Silver Doe"

            During the awarding ceremony of the best athletes and coaches of 2013 organised by the Russian Ministry of Sports and the Federation of Sports Journalists of Russia, gymnast Aliya Mustafina won the "Silver Doe" for her sport performances this year. Along with her other athletes were awarded with the same title Natalia Bolshakov (rowing, Paralympic sport), Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov (figure skating), Khadzhimurat Gatsalov (wrestling), Yuliya Efimova (swimming), Dmitry Musersky ( volleyball), Svetlana Romashin (synchronized swimming), Svetlana Shkolin (athletics), Denis Yuskov (speed skating).

             The award for the Best Athlete of the Year has been won by Yelena Isinbayeva.

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Aliya Mustafina nominee for the athlete of the year award

         Russian news paper rsport.ru informs us that the Russian Ministry of Sport has announced the nominee for the sports national awards for the 2012-2013 season. 

        Gymnastics is represented by Aliya Mustafina who is nominee as the best female athlete along with the athlete Yelena Isinbayeva, the skater Tatiana Volosozhar, snowboarder Ekaterina Tudegesheva and swimmer Yuliya Efimova. 

         Winner will be choose from 4 categories "Hope of Russia" the best sports school, a better organization of the adaptive sports), "For the service of sport" (for his contribution to the development of physical culture and sports), "The Age of the sport" (over many years for the benefit of the development of sports in the country) and "Overcoming" (for his contribution to the development of adaptive sports, the best athlete, the best athlete, the best coach).

The winners were chosen yesterday December the 16th but by the time we wrote this article we fail to find out details about the winners. We will keep you update no doubt. 

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Russian team in Stuttgart (image)

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Aliya Mustafina Team Final Beam - 2013 Stuttgart DTB Cup (video)

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Stuttgart DTB Cup 2013 Team Final - Russia finished on second position (image)

Stay tuned to Russian Gymnastics for videos from the competition.

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Aliya Mustafina beam - 2013 Stuttgart DTB Cup Team Qualifications

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Aliya Mustafina floor in 2007 Yokohama Junior International (video)

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Aliya Mustafina to compete in Bruxelles Gym Gala

         The Bruxelles Gym Gala website which be accessed here, informs us that Aliya Mustafina and David Belyavskiy will represent Russia on the Belgium gym gala. Even if they are listed on their website there is still no official confirmation from the Russian Gymnastics Federation. 

Picture taken from http://www.gymgala2013.be

     The Belgium gala is organised by the Francophone Gymnastics Federation and will reach the 3th edition this year. Along with gymnasts from Italy, Ukraine, Great Britain, Bulgaria, Russia, France and Belgium, the event will also host world acrobats and dancers from Le Cirque de Soleil like Richard Jecsmen or Yana Semilet. The gala is schedule on December the 21 starting on 20:00 local time. 

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Aliya Mustafina, Tatiana Nabieva, Anna Rodionova and Ekaterina Kramarenko to compete in Stuttgart World Cup

ITAR-TASS website informs us that during her last interview the Russian head coach Valentina Rodiononko stated that European All Around champion, world bronze medallist and 2012 London's UB Olympic champion Aliya Mustafina will compete in the Stuttgart World Cup. 

In this competition, which will be held from November 29 till the December 1, 2013, Russia will send 8 gymnasts, 4 women and 4 man. "The team of eight people will travel to Germany on November 28. In Stuttgart will compete Aliya Mustafina, Tatiana Nabieva, Anna Rodionova and Ekaterina Kramarenko" - said Rodionenko.

The ones in charge with the organization of the competition announces that the tournament will line up gymnasts from Germany, China, Switzerland, Romania, Russia, Bulgaria, Great Britain, France, Ukraine, USA, Brazil and other countries. 

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Rodionenko intends to discuss the judging issues with FIG

Head coach of Russian national team, Andrei Rodionenko said in an interview he made with  "F-Sport" agency, that he doesn't  agree with the policy of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) in terms of

 judging in the major international tournaments.

Aliya Mustafina won the gold medal on beam on the World championships, but after she received her score 14.900 she immediately submitted an enquiry, not agreeing with the basic D score on which she as scored. Russian enquiry was rejected  by the judges, but the enquiry of  Americans Kyla Ross and Simone Biles were both accepted.

"There must be a very serious discussion with the women's technical committee FIG, - said Rodionenko. - They are very conservative, many things are been take into consideration  Maybe we have to prepare official documents and send letters to find a common language. I am always alarmed by this attitude. We are not inclined to either complain or blame someone. But at least I can see their loyal attitude to the American enquires and how our enquiry was pointedly rejected. "

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Viktoria Komova funny face expression

           During Sochi training Viktoria Komova,  Aliya Mustafina and Anna Rodionova attended to a session of training of Sochi's young gymnasts. Vikatoria and Aliya helped the young girls in training giving sharing some of their experience in gymnastics. It seems that Vika was not so impressed.

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Aliya Mustafina, Ksenia Afanasieva and Anna Pavlova went to a charity event

    Aliya Mustafina, Ksenia Afanasieva and Anna Pavlova attended  at the reception of "Friends of professional sport" charity event, organized by the four-time Olympic champion Alexei Nemov. Al the athletes that were present at the event spoke about the charity and shared expectations for the upcoming Olympic Games in Sochi.

    Guests of honor at the event were members of the Academy of Laureus: German tennis player Boris Becker, a New Zealand rugby player Sean Fitzpatrick, president of the Olympic Committee of Russia Alexander Zhukov, nine-time Olympic champion Larisa Latynina, the famous footballer Bobby Charlton and many others. Money raised at the gala will go to charity.

    "I would like to focus attention on children from orphanages. I can't watch little kids without parent, not sharing a tear or two. I think in the near future will do it," - admitted the Olympic champion in synchronized swimming Alla Shishkin.

    "I want to point out that the athletes who for some reasons are machines for winning medals in the first place, are actually wonderful people. And such events, where it joins the high life and the sport is very important and useful. More such events the more we will know the athletes, and the better they will perform, "- said Alexander Zhukov during the official part of the ceremony.

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Russian WAG team trains in Soci

    Stars of the Russian gymnastics national team are training in Soci where the training activities are taking place on the basis of the Southern Federal  for Sports Training Center . At the end of the World Championship, which ended on October the 6th , in Antwerp - Belgium, the Russian gymnastics team finished in the competition in the 4th place, judging by the numbers of medals. Aliya Mustafina won three of the four medals - gold on the balance beam, bronze on Uneven Bars and Individual All Around.

    The national team choose Soci training camp to catch a breath of sea and to relax after the World Championship and also to recover from the severe stress. Coaches did not miss the chance to perform general physical fitness training.

The original source of photos http://fotoserg.livejournal.com/88862.html

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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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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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