Oleg Verniaiev gave an interview to “The Interviewer”, a Ukrainian tv show. He talked about how his recovery is going, saying that he still hopes to be ready by October and compete at Worlds. He also told the story of...
Seems like Svetlana Khorkina can really do it all. She started acting in a theater play while she was still competing in gymnastics, then after retiring, she switched to working in the Russian parliament singing, dancing (on the...
Well, now it’s absolutely official: from now on, Irina Alexeeva is able to compete internationally for Russia as her FIG license has been issued. Alexeeva officially made the Russian national team last month after a...
US senior elite gymnast Laney Madsen has announced on Twitter that she will represent Bulgaria at international competitions and will participate at this year’s World Championships in Doha. Madsen’s mother, Didi...
A local TV channel in Samara filmed an interview with Anna Dementyeva and her coaches talking about her gymnastics career and the reasons for retirement. Dementyeva was one of the stars of the Russian team leading up to 2012 and...
Tajikistan’s artistic gymnastics is currently more or less non-existent with only a few active gyms in the whole country in which kids train on the equipment left over from the Soviet times. In 2011, Tajikistan’s...
Louis Smith posted a thread on Twitter telling how he was racially profiled on a train. Smith was traveling from Peterborough to London in a first-class carriage and said the person serving refreshments wanted to check the...
Update from April of 2019: Aliya Mustafina has recently said that she reconsidered her position on vaccines and opted to get her daughter vaccinated abroad since she did not trust Russian vaccines. In April of 2019, she took...
Ashton Locklear has announced on her Instagram that she underwent a knee surgery to fix a problem that’s been bothering her for years. In the past years, Locklear couldn’t train floor and vault on the elite level due...
Lieke Wevers has announced on her Instagram today that she will have to miss the rest of the competition season. She said that she won’t compete at Euros or Worlds this year and will focus on rest and recovery instead...
