Valeri Alfosov, the head coach of the Russian men’s national team, told TASS that Nikita Ignatyev has recovered from his shoulder injury and will join the team at the training camp in Spain. Ignatyev had to withdraw from...
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The month of Aliya Mustafina continues with an interview that she gave to sntat.ru, a Kazan-based website. Since it’s a local website and the journalist likely doesn’t specialize in gymnastics, some questions are...
Oleg Stepko, a newly-minted Russian citizen, competed in his first Russian Championships last month taking 10th place in the all-around and 6th place in the pommels final. He didn’t quite make his case for the Russian...
Valentina Rodionenko talked to Stadium.ru about the results of the Russian Championships. She said that at the moment the men were better prepared than the women and that she was surprised by the floors on beam and bars (as if...
Tatiana Nabieva has officially un-retired on her Instagram (despite the fact she’s been competing throughout her “retirement”) and announced that she plans to upgrade her routines to make them competitive...
Denis Abliazin said in an interview during the Russian Championships broadcast that he will miss this year’s Worlds in order to try to qualify to the Olympics as an individual through World Cups. According to the current...
Angelina Melnikova had a blast at Russian championships winning gold in the all-around and on three events (she also won silver on vault). The nationals concluded two very busy months for Melnikova in which she competed at two...
Aliya Mustafina gave an interview to Sport-Express talking about her competitive comeback at the Russian Championships. Mustafina’s team (Moscow) won the team competition and she came in fourth in the all-around and...
Viktoria Komova said to TASS that she’s likely to retire after the Tokyo Olympics although she doesn’t know yet what she wants to do after retiring. Komova came back to competitive gymnastics last year after taking a...
Aliya Mustafina might be human after all – yes, she got the second result in the all-around at the Russian Championships’ qualification just 10 months after giving birth, but she admitted to the media that getting...