Nobody Retired, but Maybe Valentina Herself Should

As I suspected, Valentina is talking shit again. We already knew Nabieva wasn't retired, but now both Grishina and Kramarenko have denied their retirement too. Kramarenko isn't sure if she's able to fully come back from an injury that happened last summer, but she is training.

Valentina however is of retirement age and clearly all kinds of crazy, so let's hope she takes her own advice and retires.

Heartbreaking Retirements - Or Just the Usual Nonsense from Valentina

According to tass.ru, Valentina Rodionenko announced the retirements of three of Russia's former national team members, Anastasia Grishina, Tatiana Nabieva and Ekaterina Kramarenko. Even though the retirements wouldn't be that surprising, you should take this news with a grain of salt. Valentina has a habit of making announcements that don't make sense or are plainly untrue.

And sometimes I actually feel like she uses publicity as psychological warfare, warfare against her own team at that. She's a bit like genuinely delusional dictator who sees enemies everywhere and uses propaganda and mind games to keep everybody under control.

Anyway, at least Nabieva has already denied being retired. And even back when she did retire, she still went to Worlds.... ;)