Lieke Wevers is taking some time off in order to recharge and recover. She talked to Lisa Deen for The Force is Grace blog about her break and her plans for a comeback. Translated from Dutch by @GymnasticsNED Her body was...
Category - Competitions
By Melissa Carwin For the first time in the history of the WAG program, USAG decided to livestream the world selection competition which was a favorable decision allowing for transparency and accountability among the selection...
By Moll Mannix The reigning balance beam world champion Pauline Shäfer announced that will miss this year’s World Championships in Doha, Qatar after an injury to her ankle has not improved in the past few months. Leah...
Sergei Naidin is having quite a rocky ride at the Youth Olympics: he’s competing with an injury (thankfully, the officials let Naidin back in), his coach mistakenly withdrew him from the floor and pommel horse finals, then...
Ksenia Klimenko came to Buenos Aires as one of the main contenders for the all-around podium but ended up fifth in the final after falling on her best event, bars. The next day, she took gold on in the bars final, but getting...
By Mari Ilona Szutenberg Italy’s Giorgia Villa won the all-around title in Buenos Aires in convincing style yesterday, more than half a point ahead of silver medalist Amelie Morgan from Great Britain. The vastly...
By Melissa Carwin “Lord of the Rings” four-time consecutive World Champion and 2016 Olympic Champion on Rings, Eleftherios Petrounias of Greece delivered a personal and heartfelt message to all his lifelong supporters around...
USA Gymnastics has officially named their interim president and CEO – Mary Bono will fill that role during the search for the permanent president and CEO. Bono was a member of the U.S. House of Representative for California...
Sergei Naidin of Russia yesterday won silver in the all-around final at the Youth Olympic Games. Before the first individual final, team medals were also given out but the team competition at the YOG had a very original format...
Lilia Podkopayeva was asked by NevaSport to comment on the IOC possibly excluding boxing from the Olympics and to compare it to gymnastics. She also talked a bit about her gymnastics career and how she was really upset she...