Anastasia Grishina – Olympian

After London I felt Grishina might not make the Russian Olympic team. That Bars / Beam might not be enough.

BARS were great in London. But she looks even better here, adding double double dismount.

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Lauren reports from Moscow Championships:

Anastasia Grishina really, really wants to make this Olympic team, and the coaches want her on the team, too. She did not have the best meet today. She sat her DTY after putting one (albeit somewhat under-rotated) to her feet in warmups. She only scored 14.0 on bars, mostly due to one of her new skills, a toe-on Shaposhnikova-half. She caught it, but it was pretty messy and, of course, there was the incidental touch by the coach. But who thought a month ago that she’d be throwing DTYs, Shaposhnikova-halves and double double dismounts come February? …

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