Irina Alexeeva spent several years in the citizenship limbo – she lived and trained in the US and was among the top US juniors but couldn’t get onto the national team or get international assignments due to not having...
Category - Competitions
Originally, the Russian team selection for the European Championships left some fans wondering, but yesterday the team proved they were the right choice. Russia had no major mistakes in the team final (unlike the qualification...
Azerbaijan’s WAG team only includes four senior gymnasts and any injury can be devastating for the team. This year at the European Championships, Azerbaijan had the worst luck with injuries. Only three gymnasts came to...
Vasiliki Millousi has been known for her elegance on beam for years but in the past few years, she often had falls on this event which prevented her from reaching the finals. This year, in addition to competing for herself on...
Belgium qualified in the third place to the team final at Euros, a very impressive feat considering that they brought only four gymnasts to Glasgow and Senna Deriks couldn’t do leg events because of a nagging injury...
In the senior qualification, Russian team finished second after France and had falls on beam and floor. Valentina Rodionenko told TASS that the lack of experience is the cause for the falls: “Today we didn’t do well...
Lithuania’s Agata Vostruchovaite hoped to show her new routines at the European Championships but got a knee injury on vault at her very first practice in Glasgow. In the end, she had to scratch all events except for...
The Ukrainian star Diana Varinska helped her team qualify to the team final for the first time since 2010 but didn’t do so well for herself, failing to qualify to any individual finals. She is currently the first reserve on...
Today, in Glasgow, the junior competition started at the European Championships. This year the juniors have a “three for the price of one” competition in which their scores are counted at the same towards the team...
For Jonna Adlerteg, this year’s Euros are a very important competition since she’s coming back from an injury and trying to get the feel of the field again and see how her bars stack up against the competition...