Melnikova Among Russians Approved for Neutral Status, Viktoria Listunova, denied from Lauren Hopkins

[Puffin]

There was a big press conference with Andrei Rodionenko at round lake today.

Coincides with national team training camp, Melnikova was back in the gym.

The big news is that Andrei Rodionenko will leave his position as the men’s national team coach and has been appointed as an advisor to the RGF preseident, Oleg Belozerov. The new men’s head coach will be Dmitry Andreev.

Dmitry Andreev will also seek election to the men’s technical committee of the UEG. Elena Redyanova will be the candidate for the women’s technical committee.

Is Valentina Rodionenko still at Round Lake? She must be almost 90!'

 

[MaryClare]

Is Valentina Rodionenko still at Round Lake? She must be almost 90!'

Yes she is still the head coach of the senior women’s team. Aliya Mustafina is the head of junior women’s.

But it’s not really that similar to NTC type role, there are so many national team staff. Valentina is like the CEO

 

[tsarinajen]

There was a big press conference with Andrei Rodionenko at round lake today.

Coincides with national team training camp, Melnikova was back in the gym.

The big news is that Andrei Rodionenko will leave his position as the men’s national team coach and has been appointed as an advisor to the RGF preseident, Oleg Belozerov. The new men’s head coach will be Dmitry Andreev.

Dmitry Andreev will also seek election to the men’s technical committee of the UEG. Elena Redyanova will be the candidate for the women’s technical committee.

Was Melnikova just there or is she training?

 

[MaryClare]

Was Melnikova just there or is she training?

She was actually training.

 

[MaryClare]

Melnikova has withdrawn her candidacy for the upcoming regional elections. She does not wish to jeopardise her neutral athlete status and she mentioned she intends to compete at worlds this year

 

[Passion]

How much training time did she miss, about two months? She stopped right before the Russian Cup in April and then was back I guess around the end of June/early July?

 

[MaryClare]

How much training time did she miss, about two months? She stopped right before the Russian Cup in April and then was back I guess around the end of June/early July?

From her social media, she has been training throughout. I saw her train bars not that long ago and she was pretty much at full difficulty