VTB Bank conducted an interview with André Gueisbuhler, secretary general of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG). Gueisbuhler said that one of FIG’s priorities is to make gymnastics the most popular sport in...
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Angelina Melnikova recently posted several photos on her Instagram in which she posed in a t-shirt that said: “Everybody should be a feminist”. The official twitter account of the Russian Olympic...
Russian national team will travel to the training camps abroad from 28/05 till 6/06. The MAG team will go to Cyprus, while the WAG team will travel to Mallorca, Spain. These camps are focused on conditioning and injury rehabbing...
Seda Tutkhalian had to miss this year’s Euros because of a foot injury. Today, Valentina Rodionenko has announced that Seda is recovered from that injury and is back to the full training load. Seda is currently preparing...
Russian coaches who worked on preparing the athletes for the Rio Olympics were awarded various medals by the Russian president. Among the honored coaches are Andrey and Valentina Rodionenko who both received the Order of...
Murad Agharzayev from Azerbaijan had a very good competition at the Islamic Games in Baku, winning gold on floor. In the interview after the competition, he dedicated this medal to his mother. He said that he is proud to be the...
Rifda Irfanaluthfi from Indonesia won a bronze on vault at the Islamic Games. She got a score of 13.025 finishing behind Oksana Chusovitina and Marina Nekrasova. To Irfanaluthfi this bronze means a lot both because she...
Morinari Watanabe, the FIG president, is currently in Baku for the FIG Executive committee meeting and the Islamic Games. Just a few days ago FIG decided to include a new discipline, obstacle course (which is basically parkour...
Ksenia Afanasyeva got married to Roman Suetin, a fellow gymnast, last Fall, right after the Olympics. While Afanasyeva is still officially on the Russian national team, she stopped training after the Games and did not announce a...
Oksana Chusovitina is competing this weekend at the Islamic Games in Baku. She was originally listed to compete on all four apparatuses, however, in an interview today the gymnast said the only definite is vault. She is still...