Two days ago it was announced that Sergei Naidin, a Russian national MAG team member, tested positive for COVID-19. He was among four people with positive results at Novogorsk, the training center where the artistic gymnastics...
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Yesterday, the media reported that two members of the Russian national team, the head coach Andrei Rodionenko and a MAG gymnast, Sergei Naidin, tested positive for COVID-19 and, as a results, the ongoing national team training...
Andrei Rodionenko, the head coach of the Russian national artistic gymnastics team, has tested positive for COVID-19. Valentina Rodionenko said that after the national team gymnasts and staff were tested, two tests came back...
While many gymnasts around the world had their training disrupted or stopped completely due to COVID-19, for some time, it looked like Russian gymnasts would be able to keep training as usual. However, yesterday, it was announced...
If you were worried that Oksana Chusovitina who announced her plans to retire right after the 2020 Olympics would decide to forgo an addition year of training and competing, worry not. Of course, Chusovitina is staying until 2021...
Maria Paseka has announced that she is taking a break from gymnastics. She said to the media: “I made this decision after talking to my coach. We saw that I won’t be able to make the Olympic team because it’s...
The Tokyo Olympics were officially postponed until 2021 and Svetlana Khorkina had things to say about it. In an interview to Sport-Express, she violated from her traditional narrative “it is a conspiracy against me”...
Moscow oblast’s governor Andrey Vorobyev asked all residents aged 65 and older to self-isolate at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Russian national artistic gymnastics team has quite a few 65+ coaches and Round Lake...
The IOC has finally decided to postpone the Tokyo Olympics until 2021 and many athletes are relived since they have been unable to train in their regular environments. Russian gymnasts, however, are still living at the national...
Valentina Rodionenko told TASS that the preliminary Olympic training squads had been decided for both WAG and MAG. The squads will be preparing at Round Lake but the final decision regarding the Olympic teams will be made at the...