Valery Belenky was Azerbaijan’s first Olympic medalist in gymnastics (he won team gold and AA bronze as a part of the Unified team in 1992). He then moved to Germany and competed for them in the 1996 Olympics. Belenky still...
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It’s Elvira Saadi’s birthday today and to celebrate it, here’s the translation of a very old interview with her – she gave this interview to Elena Vaytsekhovskaya in 1991, right before she moved to...
Viktoria Komova gave an interview to a local Voronezh TV channel, she talked about her first competition after the hiatus and her plans to roll out the upgrades at the Russian Championships in April. Q: Did you create your...
Emin Garibov talked to VTBRussia about his transition from an elite gymnast to the manager of the national team and head of marketing for the Russian Artistic Gymnastics Federation. Q: Do you like what you’re doing now? A:...
New Year is coming and it’s time to draw some conclusions. In case you didn’t know, New Year is basically the biggest Russian holiday. Yep, New Year and not Christmas. During the Soviet years, religions and religious...
This interview with Oksana Chusovitina was done in April 2016, after the test event, but it was not translated to English before. However, you know you always want some more Oksana in your life and the interview was pretty great...
Ukraine’s National Olympic Committee has named Igor Radivilov November’s Athlete of the Month – this is the second time Radivilov has earned this honor. Radivilov talked to Telegraf.com.ua about winning the...
Nikita Nagornyy gave an interview to VTBRussia, talking about his vlog, rapping, relationship with Dasha Spiridonova, and learning from his mistakes. Q: I expected to see a cheerful and smiling guy but you are rather gloomy and...
Maria Paseka gave an interview to VTBRussia.ru, talking about her experience at Worlds, how she met her fiancee, how she started gymnastics and what are her plans now. The interview was given before she flew to Germany...
You know you want some more of Khorkina’s craziness and today I’m granting your wish. I am currently doing an unofficial translation of Svetlana Khorkina’s first book “Flick Flacks in High Heels” and...