In August, Aliya Mustafina announced that she would miss the Russian Cup and the World Championships. She later said she needed a break from gymnastics in order to feel motivated again. While she is on the 2020 national team, it...
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Ellie Black sustained an ankle injury during the all-around final at the 2019 World Championships. The injury required a surgery in October and the recovery has been slow but Black plans on being ready by the Olympics. She...
Trinity Thomas graduated high school a year early and started competing in the NCAA for the University of Florida last year. At the same time, Thomas continued competing in elite gymnastics, which is relatively rare for US...
Alexey Nemov talked to SportExpress about his main gymnastics highlights of the year. Q: What was the main gymnastics highlight of the last year for you? A: Definitely the World Championships in Stuttgart where the Russian...
Albert Azaryan, a Soviet gymnast famous for his rings routine, was the first gymnast to win Olympic gold on rings twice. His path in gymnastics was quite uncommon as he only started training at 17, after first being a blacksmith...
Three years ago, Nikita Nagornyy started thinking of ways of making artistic gymnastics more popular in Russia. He came up with an idea of making a vlog. While his videos had not yet led to sold-out arenas at national...
For Ivan Stretovich, this quad has been quite challenging as he was trying to recover from a wrist injury for more than two years. In 2019, he was finally able to get back to the highest level and helped the Russian team win gold...
Oksana Chusovitina gave an interview to Sport Express in October, when she came to Moscow to perform at Nemov Show. Q: You qualified to the Olympics at the past World Championships. Was that the only stage of...
At the start of the quad, Brazil looked like they could potentially challenge for a team medal. They competed in the team final at the Rio Olympics. They lost Aleksandr Aleksandrov but gained Valeri Liukin. They had trouble...
Gabriela Janik turned senior in 2009 and, as every elite gymnast, dreamed of going to the Olympics. Marta Pihan-Kulesza zwas the gymnast to represent Poland in 2012. Janik went to the Olympic test in 2016 but placed lower than...