Ksenia Semenova was staying up during the Worlds and watching the competition, cheering for her husband and the whole Russian team. She talked to Sport-Express about her opinion on the competition. Earlier Semenova also said on...
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Oleg Verniaiev was one of the medal favorites coming into the all-around competition, especially after Kohei Uchimura withdrew after an ankle injury. However, the final didn’t go so well for Verniaiev and he wasn’t...
Angelina Melnikova gave an interview to Soviet Sport about her performance at Worlds. She said that she now feels much more confident on bars and beam – the two apparatuses that weren’t going so well for her at the...
Maria Paseka gave an interview to Soviet Sport right after she landed in Moscow. The Russian gymnasts had a huge crowd and journalists meeting them at the airport. She talked about her attitude before the championships and what...
Andrei Rodionenko followed the comments on multiple issues at Worlds made by Valentina Rodionenko with his own critique of the organizing committee: “There’s never been such a number of injuries as during these...
The World Championships which were dubbed by some fans “The Hunger Games” allegedly actually kept the gymnasts hungry and thirsty – of course, in addition to the fact that there were countless injuries, blinding...
Elena Zamolodchikova gave an interview to Bolshoi Sport (Alexei Nemov’s sports magazine). The interview was partly a promotion of Nemov’s gymnastics show “Sports Legends”, so this is the show she’s...
Nellie Kim gave a long interview to Bolshoi Sport in which she talked about the differences between the training systems in U.S. and Russia, her take on judging in gymnastics, on Beloamericans and more. Just today a new interview...
Svetlana Khorkina gave an interview to Gazeta.ru taking mostly about the doping scandal and how Russia might be banned from the 2018 Winter Olympics. However, she also talked about the current state of Russian gymnastics. Here...
20-year old Eleonora Afanasyeva made everyone talk about her after the Russian Cup where she won gold on vault and bronze on floor. Eleonor Afanasyeva (nee Goryunova) isn’t related to Ksenia Afanasyeva, however, she is...