Vladislav Poliashov has been an alternate for the major Russian teams for many years but he’s finally made it to his first European Championships as a proper team member and managed to win the bronze on pommel horse...
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You just knew that when Angelina Simakova had an unfortunate floor routine with two falls in the all-around final at Euros, that Valentina Rodionenko would have something to say. She expressed her unhappiness with Simakova to the...
Last year, at the 2018 European Championships, Melanie De Jesus Dos Santos was the unofficial all-around winner (because no AA title was awarded). This year, she made it official. For De Jesus Dos Santos, it was a tough battle...
The very first words Nikita Nagornyy said after finishing his last routine of today’s all-around competition were “Happy birthday!” It’s his coach’s birthday today and this was Nagornyy’s way...
The reigning World champion Artur Dalaloyan came to the all-around final at the European Championships as one of the clear favorites for the gold. However, both he and his teammate Nikita Nagornyy hit all six of their routines...
Marina Nekrasova of Azerbaijan made headlines of the local press when she competed in a unitard at the Baku World Cup. Unitards are allowed by WAG Code of Points but I have never seen one until Nekrasova, even though they are...
Angelina Simakova had quite a stressful month leading up to the European Championships. She was named to the team after winning the all-around at the Russian Championships, then, after her unfortunate performance at the Stuttgart...
Angelina Melnikova has Olympic, World and European medals but none of them in the all-around despite being one of the strongest all-arounders in the world. Perhaps, this will change today as she finished the qualification...
Maria Paseka competed at the European Championships since the surgery. She is currently only competing vault (even though she is training bars and hoping to come back on floor later, as well). Her first vault, a Cheng...
Igor Radivilov once said that he has alternately good and bad years. 2015 was good, 2016 – not so much. 2017 – good again, 2018 – not great. This year is looking to be very good for Radivilov as he had success...