The Russian Ministry of Sports proposed to start vaccinating all national team athletes against COVID-19. Many Russian people are not especially enthusiastic about the vaccine – less than half of poll respondents last month...
Category - Competitions
The COVID-19 pandemic changed our whole life in a very short period of time. Things that seemed normal before – coughing in public, talking to people without a mask on, gathering in large crowds – seem weird now, and...
It is a familiar feeling by now – a gymnastics competition being canceled. Last year, most of the gymnastics competitions worldwide ended up canceled or postponed. The hope was that by 2021, things would start looking...
Kazakhstan’s Nariman Kurbanov started his post-lockdown season with a gold on pommel horse in Szombathely, his best event. He talked to the National Olympic Committee about coping with the lockdown and his plans for the...
Oleg Verniaiev, the reigning Olympic parallel bars champion and silver all-around medalist, is provisionally suspended by the International Gymnastics Federations. This was confirmed by the federation’s media representative...
Ukrainian men – both senior and junior – had a great time at the European Championships in Mersin and won both team golds and 13 individual medals. Gennady Sartynsky, the team’s head coach, said he expected...
This month, the long-awaited decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport was finally made and Russia received a two-year ban for state-sanctioned doping. Well, kind of. On one hand, it does not seem like much of a ban if...
Holding competitions during the pandemic is a challenging experience for the organizers and the participants. Ukrainian senior and junior WAG teams that won team golds and a number of individual medals at the last could have...
Artem Dolgopyat has been known for his floor work for a while now. He started his senior career in 2015 but his first big success came in 2017, when he won silver on floor at the Montreal World Championships. In 2018, he won...
According to Gennady Sartynsky, the head coach of the Ukrainian national team, the surprising absence of Oleg Verniaiev at Euros is due to injuries and upcoming dissertation defense: “First of all, Oleg is finishing his...