Tuesday, 2 August 2016

Team Russia Training in Rio

Several Russian news channels brought us some training footage today, nothing terribly interesting (except that Masha is vaulting!), if not for this golden moment that deserves to be archived in the Aliya Mustafina Collection of Awesomeness. And if that archive doesn't exist, it should.



WTF is she even doing, I LOVE HER. Her face when she takes off her hat. And her attack on that poor mic. Apparently there was a bug on it. Gotta keep the Zika away.

They interview some of the gymnasts, but didn't show much of the actual training, just enough to see that Masha is vaulting and smiling. Hopefully this means that she's okay enough to compete. There was also some footage of Aliya spinning, nothing new there, and Melka was preparing the bars and stretching. Look at Spiridoz' splits though (at 1:16). She's just casually lying on the floor chatting in that position, ouch. If you look closely at 0:21, you can also see that Aliya spins right out of the floor, whoops.


Now this next video is interesting because look at Seda vault in the beginning. Am I imagining it, or does she land with her back to the vault? Or does she just turn quickly after it? I hate that guy for blocking the vault with his big head. Do we have a Tutkhamar or Tutkhafina? Probably not, but damn that guy for letting me wonder.


The last one is mainly about the general situation in Rio, but has a few seconds of Seda warming up on vault and Aliya's jaeger, starting at 1:20.


I will keep updating this post when more footage shows up.

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