Anastasia Ilyankova’s road to the Olympic silver was full of bumps. She was one of the top Russian juniors in 2016 and was on the gold-winning Russian junior team at Euros. Individually, she placed 10th in the all-around...
Nikita Nagorny qualified to the floor final in second place after Artem Dolgopyat. He didn’t do his full difficulty in the qualification and the big question was whether he’d add his triple pike to the routine which...
Lilia Akhaimova is currently a top vaulter on the Russian team but medaling at the Olympics was probably a tall order – she had lower difficulty than the eventual medalists Rebeca Andrade, Mykayla Skinner and Yeo Seojeong...
Angelina Melnikova qualified to three event finals and competed in two of them – vault and bars – today. However, it seems that she was a bit tired after competing for three days last week and she finished 8th on bars...
Maria Paseka hoped to make Tokyo 2020 her third Olympics and, perhaps, finally accomplish her dream of winning an Olympic gold. She came back after spinal surgery to win gold on vault at the 2019 European Championships but her...
In 2016, Angelina Melnikova was the youngest gymnast on the Russian team and dealing with an injury that severely limited her ability to compete. As a result, she was not able to qualify to the all-around final. In 2021, she came...
In the past, Svetlana Khorkina has been extremely critical of Simone Biles multiple times and even accused her of doping. However, it appears that Biles withdrawing from the team and all-around final made Khorkina reevaluate her...
After the all-around final where Nikita Nagorny won bronze, he apologized to the fans and was visibly upset with the results. Nikita Nagorny’s personal coach Anatoly Zabelin believes he will get over it...
Nikita Nagorny apologized to the fans on the medal podium for his results, he thought he let them down by winning a bronze medal. Head coach of the Russian men’s team Valeri Alfosov told TASS that even though Nagorny had...
Lilia Akhaimova is a relatively late bloomer in Russian gymnastics – she only made the national team at the age of 18 and was never on the NT radar as a junior. That was because she started out in Vladivostok, a city with...
