1. We won the team qualification, but there’s no medal for that. … The only value of this ‘win’ is for our morale. We saw and understood that we can beat the Chinese and the Americans.
    — Aliya Mustafina, to All Sport, as reported by IG, 19 October 2010
     
  2. The girl is very talented, but with a difficult character. However, you don’t find much complacency among champions.
    — Alexander Alexandrov on Aliya Mustafina, as reported by IG, 13 October 2010
     
  3. No, I’m not retired yet … by the end of the year I’m going to decide whether or not I’m going to go for 2012 … the passion is definitely still there, and it will always still be there. I don’t know, I’ll be weighing my options and seeing what I have in store and sitting down with my parents — my dad’s my coach — so just to get advice from a bunch of different people.
    — Nastia Liukin, to MTV Style, 3 August 10
     
  4. Sloan is already adding some of the most difficult combinations on the uneven bars including one combination her coach Marvin Sharp hasn’t seen anyone else in the world try.
    — 

    wthr.com, 27 July 2010

    ummmmmm WHAT IS IT.  is he talking about the dismount combo (i feel like someone has to have done it) or something to be unveiled later…….