Maria Paseka announced last night on her Instagram that she decided to undergo a back surgery and will take a break from training for 7-9 months. The surgery is scheduled for today. It is supposed to put one of her vertebrae back...
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Maria Paseka gave an interview to VTBRussia.ru, talking about her experience at Worlds, how she met her fiancee, how she started gymnastics and what are her plans now. The interview was given before she flew to Germany...
A traditional winter competition – the Voronin Cup – will take place in Moscow on 18-20 of December. In the past, the competition, unfortunately, often had almost no spectators despite the free entrance, but this...
You know you want some more of Khorkina’s craziness and today I’m granting your wish. I am currently doing an unofficial translation of Svetlana Khorkina’s first book “Flick Flacks in High Heels” and...
Ksenia Semenova and Denis Abliazin gave a joint interview to a local TV channel in Penza. Here’s the translation of the interview. I omitted some parts that weren’t interesting, the whole interview lasted around 40...
Hey there, I’m Luba from the Gymnovosti website. I’ve been writing and translating stuff about gymnastics since 2012, for all sorts of blogs, and in May 2016 I created Gymnovosti. The English version of the website brings you...
While Svetlana Khorkina is the most visible gymnast outraged about the IOC’s decision to ban Russia as a country from the 2018 Winter Olympics, the majority of the current and former gymnasts also posted their reactions on...
Yesterday, the International Olympic Committee made a decision to ban Russia as a country from participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics as a punishment for the state-sponsored doping. Since then, multiple Russian athletes...
Ekaterina Sokova, once a promising Russian junior and one of the candidates for Rio, retired from gymnastics at the end of 2015 when she was diagnosed with a serious hip injury that eventually required a hip replacement at the...
Girls Channel – a Youtube channel run by gymnasts from Saint Petersburg – posted a second part of the interview with Tatiana Nabieva. The first part was posted in July. While they tried to provide partial English...