Aliya Mustafina fans can heave a sigh of relief: The 2010 World champion’s knee and Olympic hopes are intact following her comeback performance Friday at the Voronin Cup in Moscow, her hometown.
Mustafina, who tore her ACL at the European Championships on April 8, showed an extremely impressive level of difficulty in her first meet in seven months, given that the knee injury prevented her from training floor or vault for several months.
Mustafina finished sixth all-around after a fall on beam …
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Komova won the meet. Yulia Belokobylskaya was second and Valeria Maksyuta of Israel (formerly Ukraine) was third.
Still, the BIG story is that Mustafina is back in record time. If she and Komova are both healthy in London it will be tough for the USA or China to beat them.
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