Following Diana Varinska’s retirement announcement, another Ukrainian WAG star of the last few years Anastasia Bachynska announced her retirement from competitive gymnastics: “I’ve been thinking for a long...
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Ukraine’s Diana Varinska announced her retirement from competitive gymnastics to Suspilne. The 2020 European champion in the team competition and the 2019 European Games bronze AA and beam medalist competed last at the...
The Young Army (Yunarmia in Russian, also known as the Youth Army), Russia’s militarized national youth movement headed by Olympic champion Nikita Nagorny has been added to the European Union’s sanction list this...
RUSADA has announced yesterday the ban of Angelina Simakova for the use of furosemide. The ban is for two years and starts on June 2nd of 2022. The time of the preliminary suspension is counted towards the ban and Simakova will...
Artem Dolgopyat has announced he will have to miss the Maccabiah Games (which double as the Israeli Championships) next week due to an injury: “Unfortunately, this time I have not very good news – I will miss the...
This season, Oksana Chusovitina once again proved that we should never beleive her retirement announcements. She started training a few months after the Olympics in order to compete at the Asian games and is now considering...
Just a few days before the start of the 2022 Russian Cup in Kaluga, the Russian Gymnastics Federation published updated start lists for the competition with one name notably missing – Ivan Kuliak. Last month, Valentina...
Last month, Russia’s Ivan Kuliak was sanctioned for a year by the Disciplinary Commission of the Gymnastics Ethics Foundation (GEF) for wearing a Russian pro-war symbol on his chest at the Doha World Cup. Per the terms of...
The International Gymnastics Federation has awarded the 2026 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships to Rotterdam. This will be the third time Rotterdam hosts the event – they hosted Worlds in 2010 and 1987. The competition...
When the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) banned Russian and Belarusian gymnasts from international competitions in March in response to the invasion of Ukraine, gymnastics leagues and individual clubs were faced with a...