Good interview with Head Coach Andrei Rodionenko in English. And an overview of the Olympic readiness to fight with China and the USA for top spot in Beijing.
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This was linked from another excellent article by Amanda Turner on International Gymnast:
… The top three gymnasts from the Russian Cup all-around competition in Lobnya automatically qualified to the training squad. Six males and seven females were added Sunday to the squad, which will train in Leninsk-Kuznetsky until the final teams are announced at the end of July.
Women’s squad: Ksenia Afanasyeva, Kristina Goryunova, Lyudmila Yezhova Grebenkova, Svetlana Klyukina, Yekaterina Kramarenko, Yulia Lozhechko, Anna Pavlova, Kristina Pravdina, Ksenia Semyonova and Daria Yelizarova.
Men’s squad: Alexander Balandin, Maxim Devyatovsky, Dmitry Gogotov, Anton Golotsutskov, Sergei Khorokhordin, Nikolai Kryukov, Konstantin Pluzhnikov, Yuri Ryazanov and Anatoly Vasilyev.
The squads include four Olympic veterans: Pavlova and Yezhova, members of the bronze medal-winning women’s team at the 2004 Olympics; Devyatovsky, a member of the sixth-place men’s team in 2004; and Kryukov, a member of the gold medal-winning men’s team in 1996 and the bronze medal-winning team in 2000.Not selected to the squad were two-time Olympians Yelena Zamolodchikova and Alexei Bondarenko. Both gymnasts announced plans to continue training. …
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