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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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...
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...
As a New Year present, the Russian Artistic Gymnastics Federation announced the national team roster for 2020. There are some changes compared to 2019 and the biggest of them is the new head coach of the senior WAG team. Evgeny...
On December 9th, the World Anti-Doping Agency’s executive committee announced that Russia will be banned from the Olympic Games, World Championships and large multi-sport events for the next four years due to non-compliance...
Svetlana Boginskaya talked to Match TV about her work, her busy schedule, and the differences between Soviet and US gymnastics. Q: You came to the World Championships just as Oksana Chusovitina’s manager or you have...
Oksana Chusovitina is currently trying to qualify for her 8th Olympic Games. Despite being best known for her vaults, she is training on all four events and hopes to qualify through the all-around at the World Championships in...
Marina Ulyankina has coached many Russian national team athletes, among them Maria Paseka, Seda Tutkhalian, Alla Sosnitskaya and Uliana Perebinosova. In a recent interview with Gymnastika magazine, she talked about her coaching...
Legendary Soviet gymnast Liudmila Tourishcheva and her husband, an Olympic champion in track Valeriy Borzov recently visited Minsk to attend the European Games and talked to Sport.tut.by about their careers, life during the...
Dmitri Lankin will compete today at the European Games and will do all-around at a major international competition for the first time. He gave an interview to VTB in May where he talked about his gymnastics career and personal...