The reigning World AA champion Artur Dalaloyan has surprised everyone with his unfortunate performance on the first day of the Russian Championships when he finished 17th in the all-around. He still made the all-around final but...
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This week has been a rollercoaster for the fans of Nikolai Kuksenkov. First, Kuksenkov abruptly left Penza the day of podium training for the Russian Championships without explaining what happened. This spurred rumors about his...
This week, Elena Eremina competed for the first time in more than a year. She had back surgery last winter and spent the year healing and recovering. At the moment, she is competing with very downgraded routines and is not likely...
Angelina Simakova won the all-around at the Russian Championships despite having trouble on floor on the first day and falling on vault on the second day. Simakova told TASS that the results were not surprising as she expected to...
Angelina Melnikova won silver in the all-around at the Russian Championships but had issues on floor both days. On one hand, this isn’t something new as she frequently lacked stamina on floor in the past. On the other hand...
Aliya Mustafina has competed all-around for the first time in a year at the Russian Championships this week. While she upgraded floor and added a fourth tumbling pass, she only vaulted a FTY. She told TASS that she plans on doing...
According to Valentina Rodionenko, Irina Alexeeva left the Russian national team and does not plan on competing elite anymore, focusing on NCAA instead. Alexeeva’s career on the national team was short but really good...
The all-around final at the Russian Championships seemed to be heading for some surprising results with the leader, Angelina Simakova, falling on vault and the second place qualifier, Angelina Melnikova, having a terrible...
Russian Championships has started yesterday with the individual qualifications and team finals for both MAG and WAG. While we’re used to not getting proper videos from the qualifications, this year was especially bad...
Nina Derwael had quite a year in 2018. First, she became the European bars champion for the second time, and then she won gold on bars at Worlds, becoming the first ever World champion from Belgium. However, the success also...