Morinari Watanabe gave an interview to VTB Bank during the European Championships. I assume the interview was taken in English, however, VTB only published it in Russian and I wasn’t able to find the English original, so here...
Igor Radivilov gave an interview to Sportarena. Below is the translation from Russian. Q: Igor, for how many years have you been a professional athlete? A: I’m doing sports since I’ve been 5 years old but I started doing it...
Valery Alfosov, the head MAG coach of the Russian national team, told to R-sport today that Ivan Stretovich is preparing to compete at the Russian Cup in August. Stretovich had a wrist injury and underwent a surgery in January...
The Russian Olympic Committee made a short video about Angelina Melnikova’s experience in Rio. Angelina says that after the Olympics people recognize her on the streets sometimes and she finds it really cool. When shown a...
Oleg Verniaiev said to Sportarena that he is currently preparing for both Universiade and Worlds. Verniaiev participated in the Olympic Day in Kyev – an event meant to promote sports participation and watching among...
Russian male gymnasts apparently decided that it’s not enough to get injured during the regular training and opened a Youtube channel on which they post videos of themselves doing crazy tricks. What could go wrong? The...
Nikita Nagornyy gave an interview to “MK” about his experience at Euros in Cluj and how the fear of losing a sport on the national team motivated him to do well. It is worth noting that at this moment Nagornyy does not have a...
Oh, the never-ending saga of “will she-won’t she compete in August?” continues with Valentina Rodionenko claiming that Viktoria Komova has a chance to compete at this year’s Worlds on bars and vault. Yes...
Svetlana Khorkina announced on her Instagram that she wrote a new book. The book is being published by Eksmo. It will be presented at the Moscow Book Fair in September 2017. View this post on...
VTB Bank made a short video about Nikita Nagorny and Daria Spiridonova titled “A family of medal winners” (that’s how Nikita titled a photo of him and Dasha after they both won medals in Rio). The video says “love at...
