Women’s all-around World Championships 2010, Rotterdam.
Aliya Mustafina landed Vault 1st apparatus. Then kept the lead through the rest of the competition.
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I think she’s only going to get better.
The best write-up by a Dostoyevsky mile on the superb women’s competition yesterday is by a self-described Couch Gymnast:
… Frankly, there was one girl out there who could trust herself, her body and her relationship with the apparatus from the outset. Aside from a few checks on beam, there was nothing in Aliya Mustafina’s face, in her manner, or her relaxed talk to her team mates and coaches, or certainly in her performance that betrayed a moment of doubt in her own ability to win this competition. She had routines that she could do and that she would do without significant error and she knew it from the beginning.
There was faith in preparation, but there was also a quiet self-certainty- a confidence that no other gymnast showed throughout her entire performance. …
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