Lilia Akhaimova first made the national team at the age of 18 – quite late for Russian elites who normally get noticed when they are still juniors. She trains at the same gym as Elena Eremina and Tatiana Nabieva but only...
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Daria Spiridonova, a 2015 Worlds champion on bars and a member of the silver-winning Russian team in Rio, had a hard time getting her routines back after Rio. At some point in 2018, she even had to train at her home gym and was...
Angelina Melnikova often says that bars are the hardest event for her, even though she is the European Games champion and double European medalist on this event. She made the final on uneven bars at the World Championships for...
In 2018, Artur Dalaloyan became the all-around World champion, the first champion from Russia since Nikolai Kryukov in 1999. This year, however, has been full of ups and downs for him. At the Russian Championships in March, he...
Despite being an Olympic silver medalist and multiple European winner and medalist in the all-around, Oleg Verniaiev had never won an all-around medal at the World Championships until last night. Verniaiev qualified to the...
After Simone Biles broke Svetlana Khorkina’s record of most medals at World Championships, she first commented on Mustafina’s chances of going to the Olympics, and then decided to comment on Biles’s performance...
In the all-around final, Angelina Melnikova managed to win her first individual medal at the World Championships. Last year, Melnikova finished 5th in the all-around final, only a tenth behind the second place. This year, while...
At the 2018 Worlds, the Russian team lost to the Chinese by only 0.049. This is less than even the lowest possible deduction on a skill. The mistake that cost the team the medal could have come from any of the gymnasts. Yet...
Valeri Alfosov, the head coach of the men’s team, felt from the start that this was the year Russian men could finally win the team gold at the World Championships. He noted some mistakes the team made but added that none...
David Belyavskiy for years has been on of the top gymnasts in the World. He’s a multiple European champion, yet, in the first seven World Championships, he was never able to win gold. Yesterday, the Russian men’s team...