Russian men were in third place after two subdivisions, behind China and Japan, and Nikita Nagorny hopes the team will do better in the final: “I don’t think our team competed well today but we tried really hard...
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Artur Dalaloyan who competed on all six events today only 3.5 months after tearing his Achilles, credited hard work and the support of his family and team with his miraculous recovery: “My wife played a very big role in...
David Belyavskiy would have liked to get to his third Olympics in a better shape – he had an ankle injury before the Russian Cup and was limited to four events there. In the qualification at the Tokyo Olympics, he struggled...
In the beginning of 2020, the Tokyo Olympics weren’t really on Aleksandr Kartsev’s radar. He only turned 18 last year and, although eligible for Tokyo, didn’t think he was quite at the level to compete with team...
Nikita Nagorny, the reigning World and European all-around champion is currently leading the all-around standings with 87.897 pver Xiao Ruoteng (87.732), Sun Wei (87.298) and his teammate Artur Dalaloyan (85.957). This score is...
Only 3.5 months after his Achilles tear, Artur Dalaloyan competed on all six events at the Tokyo Olympics and will advance to the all-around final together with Nikita Nagorny ahead of his teammates David Belyavskiy and Aleksandr...
Many artistic gymnasts skip the opening ceremony at the Olympics because their competition often starts the next day or a couple of days after and participating in the ceremony is tiring. There are some exceptions – for...
Many times before, we heard Oksana Chusovitina saying she would retire after the Olympics and every time, she ended up training for the next Olympics. At 46 years old, she will compete at her 8th Olympics on Sunday. At the podium...
Viktoria Komova hoped to make a run for Tokyo after she got injured shortly before the Rio Olympics. However, after not being selected for the 2018 European Championships, she opted to retire from elite gymnastics and switch to...
Denis Abliazin’s major injury in 2019, perhaps, put a question mark on whether he’d be able to come back to gymnastics. Two of his three events – vault and floor – put a lot of pressure on his legs. There...