Denis Abliazin said in an interview during the Russian Championships broadcast that he will miss this year’s Worlds in order to try to qualify to the Olympics as an individual through World Cups. According to the current...
Angelina Melnikova had a blast at Russian championships winning gold in the all-around and on three events (she also won silver on vault). The nationals concluded two very busy months for Melnikova in which she competed at two...
Aliya Mustafina gave an interview to Sport-Express talking about her competitive comeback at the Russian Championships. Mustafina’s team (Moscow) won the team competition and she came in fourth in the all-around and...
Viktoria Komova said to TASS that she’s likely to retire after the Tokyo Olympics although she doesn’t know yet what she wants to do after retiring. Komova came back to competitive gymnastics last year after taking a...
After the NBC’s Dateline documentary aired, Larry Nassar made news in Russia again. Generally, the coverage of the story in the Russian media has been mixed with some media just translating the English news as is, some...
Aliya Mustafina might be human after all – yes, she got the second result in the all-around at the Russian Championships’ qualification just 10 months after giving birth, but she admitted to the media that getting...
Evgeni Grebyonkin, the head coach of the Russian women’s national team, said to R-Sport that Aliya Mustfina will definitely withdraw from the floor final tomorrow and will likely miss beam final as well. It was...
WOGA’s Irina Alexeeva had a quite successful first national championships in Russia placing 7th in the all-around and then winning silver on bars. In an interview to R-Sport, she said that she is going back to the States...
Komova had collected a second bronze medal today in addition to her AA bronze from yesterday, placing third on bars. While she scored almost a point lower than in the qualification she was able to stay on which was quite a feat...
Maria Paseka continued our beloved saga of “will she/won’t she compete at Worlds” contradicting the words of Valentina Rodionenko about a possible recovery in time for this year’s Worlds. She said to media...
