Last week Aliya Mustafina went to train in Penza instead of attending the World Cup in Osijek because of her knee injury. Pavel Pavlov was coaching her during that week as her main personal coach, Sergei Starkin, was in Osijek...
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Slovenian Teja Belak will have to miss the home world cup in Koper next week because of an injury. Andrej Mavrič, the national team coordinator said to Siol.net that she apparently has a ligament tear in her leg and the doctors...
Some things never change. You can count on Oksana Chusovitina being awesome on vault at every competition she enters. On the first day of qualifications in Osijek, she was first on vault with 14.184. Her vaults are still...
Last week Sergei Starkin, Aliya Mustafina’s personal coach, announced that she had a meniscus injury which forced her to withdraw from the Osijek World Cup. While Starkin said that the injury is very minor and Mustafina...
Irina Alexeeva had a great showing at her first Russian Championships last month but originally wasn’t added to the national team and said that she would be back in Russia only at the end of June for the Russian Cup which...
Aliya Mustafina will miss the Osijek Challenge Cup next week because of a knee injury. She originally missed the national team training camp in Spain because she was preparing for the competition. However, today Sergei Starkin...
Viktoria Komova joined her teammate Angelina Melnikova at the local Voronezh radio station and talked about coming back from an injury and dealing with the fear, combining training and studies and working as a coach. She also...
Angelina Melnikova gave an interview to a local Voronezh radio station when she was briefly home after the Russian Championships. She talked about getting new routines, her daily schedule and how she feels about having Mustafina...
Rebeca Andrade came to the 2017 Worlds as a favorite for an all-around medal but tore her ACL during the podium training. She also had to miss the 2015 Worlds because of an ACL injury. Hopefully, this year will be luckier for her...
Marian Dragulescu has been engaging in public confrontations with the Romanian Gymnastics Federation for a few months now and this week the conflict had another development. If you missed the beginning of this saga, here’s...