A new website, I-G.TV, funded by the Federation Sports Ministry in Russia has just opened. This website will provide live streaming events of regional gymnastics and diving competitions in Russia to the world.
Previously during trials I-G.TV broadcasted the Voronin Memorial but most visitors from outside Russia couldn’t connect reliably. Hopefully, with the website officially opening yesterday, the streaming issues have been resolved and we can watch the events live online! We will have to wait until the next competition, which will be the Russian-Chinese games.
Aliya Fargatovna Mustafina is a Russian artistic gymnast. She is the 2010 All Around World Champion. She also won Gold with the Russian team at the same championships and was the 2009 Russian national champion in the all around and on the balance beam. Mustafina’s younger sister Nailya Mustafina is also a Russian elite gymnast (who is a member of Russia’s junior team and won the silver medal on floor exercise at the 2008 Pacific Rim Championships in San Jose). Her father, Farhad Mustafin, was a bronze medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal.
The whole range of opportunities offered by the world of gymnastics and diving presented on the I-G.TV portal will be useful both for beginners and professionals. The web-cameras installed in gyms and swimming pools will enable I-G.TV visitors to watch on-line competitions in different parts of the world. Parents will see their children in the process of training. Russian gymnastic and diving stars will share their valuable experience and give advice. The best coaches will offer their master-classes and video trainings, and Olympic champions will give their recommendations on performance of any elements of interest to you. On-line consultations of leading sports doctors and psychologists will be also organized on the portal.
Apart from that, the portal is of unique nature because it grants to athletes an opportunity to share their skills and new achievements. To this end, it’s enough to download your video on the I-G.TV portal, so that visitors could vote. Top athletes chosen by the audience and the sports stars will be awarded a prize established by I-G.TV.”
You can also find interviews with coaches such as Leonid Arkaev and Alexei Nemov.
ROTTERDAM: Russian teenager Aliya Mustafina continued her gold medal rush at the world gymnastics championships here on Friday when she added the women’s all-around to her team title.
The 16-year-old from Moscow helped Russia to their first ever women’s team title on Wednesday night in the Ahoy arena.
And she continued her fine form by claiming the all-around gold ahead of China’s Jiang Yuyan, with American Rebecca Bross bouncing back from a fall off the beam to take bronze.
Mustafina scored 61.032 points after the four apparatus – vault, uneven bars, beam and floor – to finish over a point ahead of Jiang on 59.998 with Bross scoring 58.966.
“My coach told me I could win this gold but I didn’t want to put too much pressure on myself and tried to stay as calm as possible,” explained Mustafina.
The Russian scored highest on the vault and second highest on the uneven bars and floor and third on beam.
The Russian scored highest on the vault and second highest on the uneven bars and floor and third on beam.
She becomes the first Russian woman to win gold since Svetlana Khorkina in 2003, and could claim four more medals at the weekend as she competes in the finals of all the apparatus events.
Asked how she would approach these events after the high of team and all-around gold, she said: “Normal, like always.”
Olympic team champion Jiang, 19, becomes the first Chinese woman to win all-around silver at worlds and becomes just their second medallist after Zhang Nan’s bronze in 2003.
“I knew I couldn’t beat Mustafina because her level of difficulty is higher than mine,” explained the gymnast from Guangxi.
“Normally I’m very nervous, but this time I was very controlled.”
She added: “Competing against Mustafina makes me determined to go home to China and do better for the 2012 Olympics.”
There was more heartbreak however for Bross, who missed out on the title last year because of mistakes on the floor, and this time had to settle for bronze because of her errors on the beam.
“I still got a medal even if I’m disappointed, not because I got the bronze but because I made a mistake and I always want to got without a mistake,” said the 17-year-old from Texas.
China’s Huang Qiushuang’s medal hopes were dashed on the final rotation when she stepped out on the floor routine leaving her off the podium in fourth as American Alexandra Raisman’s challenge ended when she fell off the uneven bars.
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