Provisional teams for Rio announced

WAG - Paseka, Mustafina, Melnikova, Tutkhalyan, Spiridonova.  Still some decisions to be made on the basis of the health of Afanasyeva and Mustafina.  Andrei Rodionenko repeats the idea that Lilia Akhaimova (won today's Russia Cup FX final) may be called upon - but we know that Lilia doesn't have an FIG license. (Does anyone know the rules?  I thought athletes needed to be registered in advance.). He names Kapitonova as the reserve.

MAG - Belyavski, Kuksenkov, Ignatyev, Nagorny, Ablyazin.  Reserves are Stretovich and Polyashov.

I understand that the final teams have to be submitted to President Putin via the ROC on the 20th July. So these teams are provisional and won't be fixed before then.  The women's team in particular is still in a state of flux.  There may well be contradictory reports circulating as I post this blog ??. It is all quite exhausting for us, and we don't even have to train.  Please watch the comments for updates and let me know if you find any information.

Finally (thanks to Anon), Andrei Rodionenko has explained it was never in the plan for Mustafina to do EF - she was in Penza to try out her AA competition only.  Source - http://tass.ru/sport/3426720

Well done to all the gymnasts!  Congratulations, and good luck as you enter the final stages of preparation.  We are all thinking of you.

Update - the teams will travel to Rio in the 24th July.

MAG team - http://m.rsport.ru/rio2016_gymnastics/20160703/969703119.html

WAG team - http://m.rsport.ru/artist_gym/20160703/969699461.html