Ksenia Afanasyeva
Daria Spiridonova
Seda Tutkhalyan
Maria Kharenkova
Viktoria Komova
Maria Paseka
WAG -
Ksenia Afanasyeva will be team captain.
The
team will be a mix of younger and more experienced girls, said
Valentina. For the AA there are the Russia Cup winner Spiridonova;
Tutkhalyan ('looked very good'), and Kharenkova ('fared well on the
senior platform'). Afanasyeva
will compete on two apparatus, maybe three - floor, vault and perhaps
beam if the team needs her. Viktoria Komova is in contention, but she
still has some problems. She is preparing beam and bars, and in all
probability will also do vault. Maria Paseka may fight for a medal on
bars.
As
we all know, Mustafina won't compete in Glasgow. Russia does have
better depth now than it did a few years ago, but I am sure that they
will take forward with them to final training a number of reserves - I
(QE) would suggest that these might be Shelgunova and Elizarova. It is a
little worrying that Valentina does not mention Sosnitskaya in her
summation here; this hard working young gymnast did suffer some very
heavy falls on floor in the AA final and was visibly in pain at the end
of her routine.
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