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National Teams Announced

Further coaching changes have been confirmed: Sergei Andrianov is the new UB coach replacing Stolyar. Emin Garibov and Elena Zamolodchikova are now NT coaches for the juniors, how spectacular for them! Komova, who's medical condition remains unclarified has been demoted to the reserve team along with a number of rising stars: Uliana Perebinosova, Valeria Saifulina, Alexandra Shekoldina, Varvara Zubova, Viktoria Gorbatova, and Elizaveta Kochetkova. 
I won't take this list too seriously. I think this might have more to do with a complex funding system rather than reflecting the reality of the situation. For instance, Afanasyeva and Mustafina have both made the 2017 NT team even though we know at least one of them will be indisposed this year. And then they have Skrypnik on the team over girls like Elizarova... do we really need a side by side comparison of their competition results? For now, I'll assume this list was put together to maintain funding for certain coaches/athletes and to make sure the general support of the program has investment by keeping star veterans on the team. Even though it's a new year, perhaps sports programs in Russia have a fiscal year that does not align with the calendar year (similar to how some non-profit organizations work). Just trying to make sense of it guys. One thing that's certain is when Nationals comes, all of them will compete together, so we'll have an accurate depiction of what our depth looks like in March. Here's the list (x):

WAG - National Team                                WAG - Reserve Team
Ksenia Afanasyeva                                        Anastasia Dmitrieva
Lilia Akhaimova                                           Daria Elizarova
Elena Eremina                                              Polina Fedorova
Anastasia Ilyankova                                     Viktoria Gorbatova
Natalia Kapitonova                                       Viktoria Komova
Maria Kharenkova                                        Elizaveta Kochetkova
Angelina Melnikova                                     Tatiana Nabieva
Aliya Mustafina                                            Uliana Perebinosova
Maria Paseka                                                Valeria Saifulina
Evgenia Shelgunova                                     Varvara Zubova
Angelina Simakova                                       Aleksandra Shchekoldina
Daria Skrypnik
Daria Spiridonova
Seda Tutkhalyan

MAG - National Team                                   MAG - Reserve Team
Denis Ablyazin                                               Viktor Britan
David Belyavskiy                                            Aleksandr Chicherov
Artur Dalaloyan                                              Dmitry Govorov
Sergei Eltsov                                                   Daniil Kazachkov
Nikita Ignatyev                                               Mikhail Kudashov
Nikolai Kuksenkov                                          Nikita Simonov
Dmitry Lankin                                                Maksim Sinichkin
Andrei Makolov                                              Ivan Tikhonov
Nikita Nagornyy                                             Denis Yurov
Vladislav Polyashov                                        Ildar Yuskaev
Kirill Potapov
Aleksei Rostov
Valentin Starikov
Ivan Stretovich

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  1. AnonymousJanuary 28, 2017 at 2:31 PM

    Half of them will have not valid licences by 2017 worlds, some of them will have not valid FIG licences already in march before Euros and remembered all that Akhaimova( girl without licences) pre-Rio alt show it's looks fun :)

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 28, 2017 at 3:54 PM

    I recognise all the A team & most of the B as having competed internationally so what is this license ?

    Btw sad to see no sign of Sokova .Thats an 18 month injury layoff although she briefly made it to the B team 12 months ago . Any one with further info ?

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    1. SashaJanuary 28, 2017 at 5:37 PM

      The FIG license allows them to represent Russia internationally. Is the FIG license good for four years or two? Either way I think most of these girls are covered (Shekoldina needs one and Nabs needs hers renewed).

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    2. AnonymousJanuary 28, 2017 at 8:49 PM

      2 years. They're not hard to get on shortish notice.

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 29, 2017 at 10:34 AM

    Waiting for the moment when Valentina Rodionenko be a babysitter for Aliya baby, when Mustafina be doing again all that tumblings, bars and spins at trainings onto Round Like gym :DDD tbh i will die to see it :P

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  4. AnonymousJanuary 30, 2017 at 6:38 AM

    Well according to Vika's father doc give her green light for trainings and she will be back as soon as possible, but she still fills the pain . The rest can be found here http://www.moe-online.ru/news/view/357248.html

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  5. AnonymousFebruary 13, 2017 at 5:50 AM

    According to Valentina Rodionenko women Team Russia for Euro 2017 will be Tutkhalyan, Melnikova and Spiridonova( also Paseka will miss it 100%) and for men Belyavskiy, Ablyazin and Kuksenkov will skip it too doctors find kidney stones in David http://rsport.ru/artist_gym/20170213/1116284142.html

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    1. AnonymousFebruary 13, 2017 at 6:25 PM

      Spiri looked in decent shape in Iceland . Beam has lovely new mount & floor spins looked improved .

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    2. SashaFebruary 14, 2017 at 12:55 AM

      Yes I saw, I will talk about all of this soon. I'm sorry I've neglected the blog but there was something very important that had to get done within a timeframe so...priorities, y'know. I'm back now!

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 16, 2017 at 5:40 AM

    According to Komova's father if she be back in shape shell be back in main team LOL also she will skip all major comp in 2017(euros, worlds) and full 2017 season will be for her recovering http://tass.ru/sport/4028089

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    1. AnonymousFebruary 16, 2017 at 10:28 PM

      I don't think it is a case of skipping these comps . However she does need to strengthen her back & ankle& some gym & related conditioning is the best way.


      If she really could physically & wanted to , she could get a world class beam within 3 months ,bars 6 , vault 9 & floor 12 months . So lets give her that year & stop piling on .

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