Sunday, November 13, 2011

"The injury is over. It's been forgotten."

Photo From International Gymnast.com

In a interview in Stuttgart Mustafina said this about her injury and confirmed that she will be training the Amanar again. I am torn by this: on one hand, I just love how gutsy she is, her determination is what I like the most about her; on another hand, I worry about Mustafina, maybe she is too determined, too fierce!
Interview is by Nils Bohl, see here!

On another note Huang Qiushuang won the AA competition while the Russians took the team gold.


I have always had mixed feelings about Huang. She is great, that is undeniable, but her consistency problems just drive me nuts. Even in this competition where she was cleaner than her usual self, and doing substantially less difficulty, she manages to falter on bars with off line turns in handstand, poor transition from LB to HB, and then to finish off huge step out of bounds on a simple (for her!) double pike in the second pass of her floor routine. I want her to pull through and figure out how to compete consistently because the Olympics are close and China cannot afford her emotional performances. This competition might boost her confidence.

One can only hope!

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