After a strong start of the season, when Mustafina won gold at the Birmingham World Cup, she ended missing the rest of the season and does not plan on returning to competition until 2020. Mustafina opted to miss the European...
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Oksana Chusovitina who qualified for her 8th Olympics earlier this months told TASS she plans on retiring after Tokyo: “This will be my last Olympics, I’ll retire and won’t be an active athlete but I’ll...
By Moll Mannix Turkish gymnast Tutya Yilmaz has retired following the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart. The 20 year old shared a short video and caption on her Instagram, stating: ‘Today I am saying goodbye to my...
Daria Spiridonova broke her ankle last year and ended up having to miss most of the 2019 season in order to recover. She was originally reluctant to talk about the injury and carefully posed for photos so that her cast...
In 1989, Svetlana Boginskaya won three gold medals at the World Championships in Stuttgart – as a part of the Soviet team, in the all-around, and on floor. As she told Dvora Meyers, the medals aren’t what she remembers...
Ivan Stretovich had a long recovery from the wrist injury he got in 2016. He was only able to make a major team for the first time since the Olympics this year. Surgeries, growth spurt and coaching issues were among the obstacles...
In 2018, Artur Dalaloyan left Doha as not only the all-around World champion, but also the floor champion. In addition, he won silver on vault and bronze on parallel bars. This year, Dalaloyan was not able to defend either of his...
David Belyavskiy qualified to the pommel horse final at the World Championships but finished only 7th. He feels like at his current shape, he would not have been able to compete for a medal in that final even without a...
Nikita Nagornyy has been one of the strongest gymnasts in the World for a while, and his won his first senior medal at the European Championships back in 2015. However, his first individual medal at Worlds did not happen until...
As a rising junior and in 2016, Angelina Melnikova looked like the future big star of the Russian team but it took her a few more years to reach this status. As a senior, she has been competing non-stop since 2016, despite...