Brazilian gymnast Petrix Barbosa decided to switch nationalities and will represent Portugal internationally. He plans on competing for Portugal already at this year’s World Championships in Doha. Barbosa left Brazil to...
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Yesterday was the last day for submitting the nominative teams for the World Championships to FIG and today Valentina Rodionenko officially announced the teams to the media. Of course, there’s still a month till Worlds and...
The crowd favorites Coline Devillard of France and Eythora Thorsdottir of Netherlands will have to miss the upcoming World Championships because of their injuries. Thorsdottir broke her hand at the last practice before leaving...
The first day of Szombathely was marked by the return of Oleg Verniaiev and by somewhat unexpected double gold medals for Israel. While Artem Dolgopyat was a clear favorite going into the floor final (he had the highest...
Artem Dolgopyat made history last year winning Israel’s first Worlds silver in artistic gymnastics. This year he showed again this was not a fluke when he won silver at Euros – even though he’s still recovering...
Igor Radivilov was the only Ukranian MAG who won a medal at the last Euros in the absence of Oleg Verniaiev. He talked to SportExpress.ua about being the leader of the team this past year, his competition plans and what he...
Valentina Rodionenko told R-Sport that Aliya Mustafina was included on the nominative team for the World Championships. According to Rodionenko, at the moment, the team is supposed to be the five gymnasts that competed at the...
Arab countries have complicated relationships with Israel which, in sports, often resulted in scandals in the (not so distant) past. As Arab countries continue hosting athletic events, one of the big issues was the ban on the...
Celine Van Gerner has announced today that she will miss the upcoming World Championships in order to have a surgery on her Achilles. The injury’s been bothering her since Rio and limiting her training and upgrades. Van...
Elena Eremina and Maria Paseka went to Germany to check on their progress since the back surgeries and to get an approval to train in full strength again. Elena Eremina posted an update on her Instagram, saying that she can fully...