Anastasia Iliankova gave an interview to Gimnastika, the magazine of the Russian Artistic Gymnastics Federation. Q: People say that the first medal at a major competition is special. A: That’s true. During the medal...
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Oleg Verniaiev was originally supposed to miss the European Championships because of his injury and, as a result, would have missed the European Games as the Ukrainian MAG did not have any non-nominative spots and had to qualify...
The Russian team is flying to Minsk for the European Games on Monday. At the beginning of this week, the women preparing for the European Games and the Universiade had a verification. The federation posted a video with some...
Nellie Kim is helping to promote the European Games as one of its start ambassadors. She talked to Minsk News about her roles at the Games and her thoughts on Belorussian gymnastics. Q: Nellie, if we’re being honest, the...
Emin Garibov hoped to compete at the first European Games but couldn’t participate because of an injury. This time, he came to the Games as one of the officials, he is the head of marketing at the Russian Artistic...
Ukraine did not have a good showing at the 2018 European Championships and, as a result, they did not get any non-nominative spots. This means they could only send to European Games the gymnasts who earned nominative spots at...
The European Games are opening tomorrow and it’s time to plan your gymnastics schedule for the next week. Among the big names for the competition are Angelina Melnikova who plans to unveil her new floor and beam...
Sanna Veerman has announced on her Instagram that she will miss the Dutch Nationals this week due to a minor knee injury: “Unfortunately, I got a little tear in my meniscus, which means I’ll not be participating this...
Kirsten Polderman was slated to represent the Netherlands at the Universiade in July, together with Elze Geurts. As a part of her preparation, she was supposed to compete at the FIT challenge in Belgium. However, she tore her ACL...
Lieke Wevers experienced burnout after Rio and had to take 2018 off to recover. She returned to competition this month at the FIT challenge where posted an impressive 52.198 in the all-around and helped the Dutch team to win...