Russians need to leave Seda home. I think it was her last chance. I gotta say Russian girls appeared to be very mighty. Youngster Melnikova made a big difference. Mustafy was a hot mess on a floor again. Her coaches and Russian WAG team manager should protect Mustafy from her bad decisions (competing for AA for the starters).. Mustafy looks pretty good to be coming back into her old self of 2011-2013 (both physically and performing wise). Will see. The whole team looked kinda solid.
Girls were more focused, while Russian men were not even competing seriously, I watched few videoblogs of their young raising star Nikita Nagorny - most of them were not even serious, walking around Bern, joking, giggling and pranking each other, enjoying beautifully scenery in Switzerland. Nikita kinda grown on me, he is such a humorous goofball. Kinda very Texas American dont_give_a_fudge attitude guy. Very venturous, risky, bold and brave guy judging by his video blog. He (19yo) jokingly called his teammate David Belyavsky (24yo) "an old fart, don't even think about Tokio-2020". I ROFLed for a minute. According to his video blog. He lives a very vivid lifestyle, cruising in his shiny bmw around Moscow, recording with some rap band, going on few horror quest attractions and skydiving to train his nerves, constantly pranking and laughing out at his teammates, I wonder how they did not murder him yet.
Russian girls looked under stress, while their men were just chilling at this Euros. Nikita Nagorny didn't even looked focused or trying to pretend to be serious at least. He still needs to work on his reputation of being stable and worthy of constantly fair judging. He still on a rise of building his name, but it's already becoming clear: if he is jumping his base technical mark and performing without major mistakes - he should receive his certain amount of points, otherwise it would be an obvious robbery. All current big gymnast went through the same path, including Vernyayev. Vernyaiyev was largerly underscored every now and then until he received his first big wins and titles.
This Olympics AG gonna be extremely interesting. There are at least 8 men teams packed with gymnasts worthy of team event or individuals. Competition in women is less fierce, but it's tough as well.
Girls were more focused, while Russian men were not even competing seriously, I watched few videoblogs of their young raising star Nikita Nagorny - most of them were not even serious, walking around Bern, joking, giggling and pranking each other, enjoying beautifully scenery in Switzerland. Nikita kinda grown on me, he is such a humorous goofball. Kinda very Texas American dont_give_a_fudge attitude guy. Very venturous, risky, bold and brave guy judging by his video blog. He (19yo) jokingly called his teammate David Belyavsky (24yo) "an old fart, don't even think about Tokio-2020". I ROFLed for a minute. According to his video blog. He lives a very vivid lifestyle, cruising in his shiny bmw around Moscow, recording with some rap band, going on few horror quest attractions and skydiving to train his nerves, constantly pranking and laughing out at his teammates, I wonder how they did not murder him yet.
Russian girls looked under stress, while their men were just chilling at this Euros. Nikita Nagorny didn't even looked focused or trying to pretend to be serious at least. He still needs to work on his reputation of being stable and worthy of constantly fair judging. He still on a rise of building his name, but it's already becoming clear: if he is jumping his base technical mark and performing without major mistakes - he should receive his certain amount of points, otherwise it would be an obvious robbery. All current big gymnast went through the same path, including Vernyayev. Vernyaiyev was largerly underscored every now and then until he received his first big wins and titles.
This Olympics AG gonna be extremely interesting. There are at least 8 men teams packed with gymnasts worthy of team event or individuals. Competition in women is less fierce, but it's tough as well.