Tatiana Nabieva has confirmed her retirement

Sad news comes from Russia these days, since Tatiana Nabieva, member of the Russia National Team has confirmed her retirement. The news was brought by Alan Owen from Tatiana herself. Alan is the admin of Tatiana official fan page on Facebook and also admin of her official site. 

Tatiana will retire from competitive gymnastics, but she will not say goodbye to gymnastics since she had declare her intentions of becoming a coach. 

As a gymnasts Tanya won several medals most important one was the silver on Uneven Bars in 2011 Tokyo World Championship. She also won the gold medal in team competition at the same World Championship. The European championship in Birmingham was a successful competition for Tanya who won 3 medals there gold with the Russian team, silver on Uneven Bars and bronze on Vault. 2013 meant a comeback for her, Summer Universiade been her first competition after she struggled with injuries. She contribute to Russia team gold medal and she also won a silver medal of UB after Aliya Mustafina. In august Tanya dominated the Russian Cup.

We will all miss Nabs but we are also confident that she will become a great coach. 

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Anna Rodionova "I like everything on Round Lake"

      During her latest interview, Russian national member Anna Rodionova spoke about the conditions on Round Lake, her performance on Antwerp World Championship and her wishes for 2014. 
        Rodionova told sportbox.ru that "I like everything on Round Lake. The conditions of living and working there are wonderful. Therefore, every training is fun." 

      Despite being Russia youngest competitor on this year World Championship, Anna finished the All Around competition on the 16th place and on the beam final she finished last. The result didn't discourage her as she knows that she must work hard on improving her routines. On the other hand she doesn't have a favourite element.      

       "Participation at the World Championship was the highlight of this year for me. The atmosphere was wonderful. I still need to improve my routines" 

      For 2014, Anna wishes to win a medal even if she admits that she must very hard to obtain it. 

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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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