When Oleg Verniaiev says he’s going to have a light schedule, it likely means he has just five competitions in two months and not ten. Despite having two surgeries in the beginning of the year, Verniaiev was able to come...
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After finally becoming an individual World medalist this year, Angelina Melnikova is working hard to prepare for her second Olympics. She talked to VTB about her journey between Rio and Tokyo. Q: Which of your medals from...
Nikita Nagornyy talked to VTB about the team’s and his own victories in Stuttgart and the long road to this competition. Q: What were you feeling last year when you lost to China by 0.001 at the World...
Oksana Chusovitina talked to AiF about her career, her son’s past illness, and how gymnastics helped her get through the dark times. She is still nostalgic about her first Olympics in 1992: A: We were just kids then. We...
The 2019 World all-around champion Nikita Nagornyy gave an interview to Soviet Sport, talking about his success this year and what he does in addition to gymnastics. Q: At the 2018 World Championships, you won team silver and...
Denis Abliazin has been struggling with injuries since the 2016 Olympics. He broke his leg in 2016 and had to miss the 2017 European Championships. At Worlds that year, he was only able to compete on rings but won silver on the...
The board of the multi-sport European Championships has announced today that Munich was chosen as the host of the next event. The first multi-sport Euros took place in 2018 in Glasgow and Berlin. Artistic gymnastics will once...
While usually Russian gymnasts get on the national team radar when they are still juniors, Lilia Akhaimova only earned a spot on the national team at 18. She was supposed to be one of the alternates for the Rio Olympics but ended...
After winning bronze on beam at the 2017 World Championships, Alt experienced a string of injuries. This winter, she was recovering from shoulder surgery and hoped to come back for the 2019 Worlds. However, she is not setting any...
When Svetlana Khorkina first made the national team, her new teammates asked how many Olympic Games she would like to compete at. “Seven!”, she blurted, not quite knowing how often the Games happen. The teammates...