Samir Aït Saïd gave this interview to Le Figaro, talking about returning to competition in 2017 and training for the Tokyo Olympics. The translation by K. Chevallier. Q: Looking back, Samir, was your 4th place in the rings...
Oleg Verniaiev was a guest on the Youtube channel “Ot dushi v dushu” [From soul to soul] and he was asked some pretty weird questions (along with some interesting ones). If you wanted to learn what was the...
Lately, the Russian media has been following the Nassar hearings and the news about USA Gymnastics pretty closely – even the story of the father of three survivors attacking Nassar made the news there. Interestingly, the...
Alina Kozich, the 2004 all-around European champion, became a coach and a choreographer after retiring from her competitive career. She worked with the Japanese and Hungarian national teams and in 2017, she moved to Belarus where...
Pravda-News talked to Sergei Starkin, the personal coach of Aliya Mustafina and Denis Abliazin, about coaching. Starkin talked about not having a lot of choices when it came to being involved in gymnastics – a son of two...
Translation from Portuguese by Patricia Franco. After recovering from his surgery in 2017, Diego Hypolito returned to the National training center in Rio de Janeiro for two weeks of training. He told Globo.com that this year he...
Vitaly Scherbo made his first public statement since Tatiana Gutsu accused him of raping her. Gutsu came forward in October of 2017 saying she was raped by Scherbo in 1991 at a competition in Germany. Unlike his mother, Scherbo...
Aliya Mustafina gave an interview to VTB, talking about her comeback to gymnastics, how she manages to combine training with raising a baby and what impressed her the most in gymnastics in 2017. Q: How are the first months after...
Oleg Verniaiev talked to RIA Novosti Ukraine about how winning an Olympic medal can change the life of an athlete in Ukraine. Q: At the 2016 Olympics you put gold and silver into Ukraine’s “bank”. Did the...
Oleg Verniaiev and Igor Radivilov who both won silver medals at the 2017 Worlds will be receiving the President of Ukraine stipend for outstanding athletes. The monthly amount is 9,000 grivnas which is about $320. Their personal...
