It seems like Valentina Rodionenko goes through phases with Aliya Mustafina: sometimes Aliya can do no wrong and sometime Aliya’s fat, lazy, and stubborn. One of the previous “bad Aliya” phases ended with...
Dana Duckworth, the head coach of the University of Alabama’s women’s gymnastics team, has announced this week that Ryan Roberts will be joining the staff as an assistant coach. He will be replacing Bryan Raschilla...
Valentina Rodionenko never fails to meet our expectations and to give a controversial comment to the media. This time she said that if Aliya Mustafina will not compete at the Russian Cup (which starts in three weeks), she likely...
Petro Pakhniuk ended up as the leading Ukrainian all-arounder at the beginning of this year, after Oleg Verniaiev temporarily stopped competing in order to recover from injuries. He won a bronze at the American Cup but then got...
It looks more and more likely that Aliya Mustafina will have to miss the Russian Cup. The competition will take place at the end of the month and the gymnast’s training is still limited due to the injury. While last week...
Last week Aliya Mustafina went to train in Penza instead of attending the World Cup in Osijek because of her knee injury. Pavel Pavlov was coaching her during that week as her main personal coach, Sergei Starkin, was in Osijek...
Slovenian Teja Belak will have to miss the home world cup in Koper next week because of an injury. Andrej Mavrič, the national team coordinator said to Siol.net that she apparently has a ligament tear in her leg and the doctors...
For those who were worried about Irina Alexeeva’s future as an international elite gymnast, you can breathe now, this month she was officially put on the Russian national team roster. The national team for the year is...
Some things never change. You can count on Oksana Chusovitina being awesome on vault at every competition she enters. On the first day of qualifications in Osijek, she was first on vault with 14.184. Her vaults are still...
Last month Aliya Mustafina announced her divorce from Alexei Zaitsev on Instagram and said that she would not give any additional information besides what was already written in the post. However, her father, Fargat Mustafin...
