Ukrainian women’s team is on the rise and they have been collecting medals all season. At the European Championships, both Diana Varinska and Anastasia Bachynska finished in the top 10 in the all-around. At teh European...
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Andrey Medvedev, the silver medalist on vault at this year’s European Championships, had bing plans for the Worlds. He upgraded his vault for Euros and planned to upgrade his second vault and have two vaults with 6.0...
Israeli women’s gymnastics has had some bad luck in the past month. First, Ofir Netzer, who placed 4th at the vault final at the European Games and was very likely to qualify to the Tokyo Olympics, tore her ACL at the...
Angelina Melnikova came to the World Championships at the end of a very good season. She won silver on bars and bronze on floor and in the all-around at the European Championships and then won two gold and two silver medals at...
For a while, it looked like Daria Spiridonova would become an alternate on the Russian team, just as she was the last year. Maria Paseka is the reigning European champion on vault and for Spiridonova, the Worlds became the first...
When Roxana Popa reinjured her knee in 2015, she thought she would not be able to compete again. She had trouble even walking down the street, so gymnastics was out of the question at the time. However, after another surgery in...
Eythora Thorsdottir is known for her expressive floor routines. Her new floor routine, she hopes, will resonate with many people and they’ll be able to put their own emotions into it: “This time we decided not to...
Laney Madsen was first supposed to compete for Bulgaria at the 2018 World Championships but got injured shortly after arriving in Doha. This year, she used the European Championships and Games to prepare for Worlds and hopes to...
Petro Pakhniuk has been having quite a good season so far, winning silver on parallel bars at the European Championships and bronze on floor at the European Games. In 2016, he represented Azerbaijan at the Olympic Games in Rio...
At the World Championships, Oleg Verniaiev hopes to help the Ukrainian men’s team qualify to the Olympics. So, he’s going to give it his all despite having two surgeries earlier this year and not quite being...