Aliya Mustafina - I'll continue training after the Games

Aliya Mustafina credits her involvement in sport to her family, especially her father, Fargat MustafinWell, by now you will all know that the Russian team won a silver medal in the team competition, their best result since 2000.  They were beautiful, but suffered more errors...

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WAG final start lists

Aliya Mustafina competes on beam in qualifying on Sunday.  FIGYou will be able to find start lists for this afternoon's women's team final here.Russia begin on vault, alongside the American team.  Their working order at present stands as follows :Vault : Mustafina,...

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Russian men finish 6th in fiery Olympic final

Denis Ablyazin on floor at this year's Russia Cup.  Courtesy of the RFGAs Britain recorded an historic first medal in the men's gymnastics team competition at the North Greenwich arena yesterday, Russia struggled to fulfill their potential.  With falls on pommels,...

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Artistic gymnastics is alive, well and Russian!

Viktoria Komova, watched by podium coach Maria Nazarova yesterdayArtistic gymnastics is all about amplitude, flight, grace and elegance, expression.  The way the gymnast leaps and somersaults and twists in the air, performing acts of incredible strength and skill but making...

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London buses, legacy and a legion of highly impressed soldiers

Ksenia Afanasyeva, watched by Maria Paseka I had a bit of a moment yesterday.  Sat on the shuttle bus on my way to the North Greenwich Arena, I looked around me, and everything was so pink and shiney and clean and sweet scented, the volunteers all so helpful and smiley. ...

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Tickets!!!

Queen Elizabeth would like to announce ...That she has tickets!! Assiduous searching of the London 2012 website finally paid off.   I will be in the North Greenwich arena tomorrow, equipped with my inhaler, ready to shout as loud as anyone ever thought possible. ...

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Russia are back!

19 year old Denis Ablyazin, from Penza, qualified to three event finalsFive young men of Russia have confirmed their return to the top level of artistic gymnastics by putting in a spirited performance, without a backward glance to their country's somewhat changeable achievements...

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Start list for WAG qualifications

2010 World Champion Aliya Mustafina will play a vital roleThe FIG has now published a start list for tomorrow's WAG qualification (interestingly, it shows Romania's Iordache doing the all around, so perhaps her heel isn't that bad after all ...)Remember in qualis, the format...

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Who's Who - Russia's Women Artistic Gymnasts

Russia come to London as underdogs in the women's artistic gymnastics, the fearsome, powerful USA the most likely contenders by far for team gold.   Saddled with a reputation for alarming inconsistency and an under power team with little reserve, Russia seem unlikely...

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Who's Who - Russian men's artistic gymnastics

The Russian men's team looks likely to make more of an impression here in London than they did in Beijing four years ago, where two bronzes were their total accomplishment.  If team coach Valentina Rodionenko has it right, the team has halted their decline since the collapse...

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