Vika My Princessa - I have had and still keep having so many feels for ya

A little something for Throwback Thursday. I'm about to start playing the new expansion pack for Sims 4, so you'll probably never see me again.
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In a recent interview Viktoria Komova described the last few years as the hardest of her life. An endless cycle of training, getting injured and not competing. She lost the passion to train and quit several times, fought with Gennady Yelfimov, her coach since childhood, and broke off the partnership returning home to Voronezh. Her return to training and Round Lake happened after the head of the Russian team, Andrei Rodionenko, called and told her to return right away. I don't know what they discussed or how he got her to agree (maybe it was first just because her team needed her, maybe there was something more to it), but she returned, started training and eventually made up with Yelfimov.

She returned to competition this year successfully (at least in my mind), performing AA in European Games at Baku and winning a World title on uneven bars after an otherwise inconsistent competition in Glasgow. If she stays healthy (yeah right...), she'll have her former difficulty back by Rio. She's shown she can fight, now all she needs is confidence in herself.

After seeing the interview, I remembered a piece I wrote about Vika last year. She was in the middle of the funk she discussed during the interview and I was pretty pessimistic about her chances of return to competition. And I just thought it would be interesting to see what I wrote back then now that we know how this year went. There's also a link to the post on RRG that I was referencing.