The month of Aliya Mustafina continues with an interview that she gave to sntat.ru, a Kazan-based website. Since it’s a local website and the journalist likely doesn’t specialize in gymnastics, some questions are...
Vera Kiryashova, Elena Eremina’s personal coach, said to TASS that Eremina has started training again and will go to Spain for a training camp with the national team. Eremina had a spinal surgery only three months ago, so...
Valentina Rodionenko said to TASS that Aliya Mustafina will miss the national team training camp in Spain. The team left for Spain today and the camp will last till May 16th. Mustafina likely didn’t want to be away from her...
Oleg Stepko, a newly-minted Russian citizen, competed in his first Russian Championships last month taking 10th place in the all-around and 6th place in the pommels final. He didn’t quite make his case for the Russian...
Valentina Rodionenko talked to Stadium.ru about the results of the Russian Championships. She said that at the moment the men were better prepared than the women and that she was surprised by the floors on beam and bars (as if...
A good thing that might have come out of the abuse scandal in US gymnastics is that it might have given many more athletes in different countries courage to talk about the abuse they experienced. This week it became known that...
This past month has been all about Aliya Mustafina – her triumphant comeback and her divorce. Aliya has given another interview right after the Russian Championships – to Irina Stepantseva of MK. The questions were...
Following Ksenia Semenova’s comments on the US abuse scandal, Alexei Nemov and Andrei Rodionenko were also asked to weigh in. Despite the fact that Nassar pleaded guilty and has been sentenced and so the abuse is not...
Aliya Mustafina addressed the rumors of the separation from her husband in her account on Instagram. She said that a month ago she officially got divorced from Alexei Zaitsev, a Russian bobsledder. The couple got married in...
Tatiana Nabieva has officially un-retired on her Instagram (despite the fact she’s been competing throughout her “retirement”) and announced that she plans to upgrade her routines to make them competitive...
