This month, the long-awaited decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport was finally made and Russia received a two-year ban for state-sanctioned doping. Well, kind of. On one hand, it does not seem like much of a ban if...
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Holding competitions during the pandemic is a challenging experience for the organizers and the participants. Ukrainian senior and junior WAG teams that won team golds and a number of individual medals at the last could have...
Artem Dolgopyat has been known for his floor work for a while now. He started his senior career in 2015 but his first big success came in 2017, when he won silver on floor at the Montreal World Championships. In 2018, he won...
Oleg Verniaiev’s competition schedule is usually tightly packed. This year, he was forced to take a break due to the pandemic but still managed to take part in several competitions in August-October. He talked about how...
According to Gennady Sartynsky, the head coach of the Ukrainian national team, the surprising absence of Oleg Verniaiev at Euros is due to injuries and upcoming dissertation defense: “First of all, Oleg is finishing his...
Azerbaijan’s Gymnastics Federation has announced that three of the gymnasts on their European Championships senior and junior MAG teams tested positive for Covid-19 this week. As a result, Azerbaijan withdrew from the...
Three-time Olympian and former president of the FIG Yuri Titov turned 85 in November. He gave an interview to TASS on this occasion and talked about his career and the current generation of Russian gymnasts. The current FIG...
Pauline and Helene Schäfer publicly spoke up about abuse they experience during their gymnastics training. They gave an interview to Spiegel.de alongside Sophia Steurer, Lisa Hill, Isabelle Marquardt, and Rosa-Lynn Schmitz...
Evgeny Nikolko, Alexey Nemov’s long-term coach and the head coach of the Russian MAG Olympic teams in 1996, 2000, and 2004 passed away on November 22nd at the age of 76 from pneumonia complications. Nikolko stopped working...
Dmitri Lankin was one of the Russian gymnasts that were selected for the Friendship and Solidarity competition in Tokyo. For a long time, he had been seen as an event specialist which would limit his chances to go to the...