Svetlana Baitova who won team gold at the 1988 Olympics recently talked to Igor Kozlov of Sputnik.by about her career and about life after retiring from competitive sports. Q: Svetlana, this year marks 30 years since you became...
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Viktoria Komova recently competed at the Russian Cup where she took bronze in the all-around and silver on bars. Despite not quite having her full difficulty back and still recovering from a toe injury and bronchitis, she’s...
Polina Shchennikova of the University of Michigan is taking part in the FIFA World Cup in Russia this summer and she was interviewed by RIA Novosti about this experience. Below is the translation of the original...
Nellie Kim recently visited Russia in order to attend a rhythmic gymnastics festival organized by Alina Kabaeva. Kim gave an interview to a local website Mosregtoday.ru and talked about her gymnastics career, her current work and...
A local TV channel in Samara filmed an interview with Anna Dementyeva and her coaches talking about her gymnastics career and the reasons for retirement. Dementyeva was one of the stars of the Russian team leading up to 2012 and...
Update from April of 2019: Aliya Mustafina has recently said that she reconsidered her position on vaccines and opted to get her daughter vaccinated abroad since she did not trust Russian vaccines. In April of 2019, she took...
Last month Aliya Mustafina announced her divorce from Alexei Zaitsev on Instagram and said that she would not give any additional information besides what was already written in the post. However, her father, Fargat Mustafin...
Several US national team members announced on their social media last night that Kerry Perry, the CEO of USAG, asked Rhonda Faehn, the senior vice president for the women’s program to resign. Perry arrived at the first...
For several years, Olga Korbut has been accusing her former coach Renald Knysh of molesting, raping and beating her. Knysh categorically denied the accusations and for year Korbut’s been accused of lying and...
Angelina Melnikova gave an interview to a local Voronezh radio station when she was briefly home after the Russian Championships. She talked about getting new routines, her daily schedule and how she feels about having Mustafina...