Because the Russian national team usually travels only with the NT coaches, Angelina Melnikova is in Tokyo without her personal coaches. Natalia Ishkova and Sergey Denisevich are cheering on her from home. Natalia Ishkova was...
As the reigning World and European AA champion, Nikita Nagorny came to Tokyo as a heavy favorite to win the all-around gold but had to settle for bronze. He qualified to the final in second place, over 0.5 behind Hashimoto Daiki...
Artur Dalaloyan finished competing at the Tokyo Olympics today. Back in April when he tore his Achilles, he thought he could miss out on the Olympics. Later, the plan was to compete on only four events. But Dalaloyan ended up...
The Russian women’s team won their first ever team Olympic gold yesterday. This was one of the achievements Svetlana Khorkina strived for when she was an active gymnast. When Russia placed second in the 2000 team final...
Irina Nadiuk was preparing Nazar Chepurnyi for the Tokyo Olympics – Ukraine’s star at the 2019 Junior Worlds turned senior in 2020, right in time for Tokyo. However, with the Games’ postponement and...
Artur Dalaloyan did all six events in both the qualification and the team final despite being just 3.5 months after the Achilles surgery. Tomorrow, he will compete on all six events once again in the all-around final. He is the...
The Soviet Union dominated women’s artistic gymnastics and its last team – the Unified Team – won team gold in 1992. But after the breakdown, Russian women were never able to get that coveted gold medal, even...
The Russian men’s team talked to MatchTV about what the gold medal means to him and what they were feeling throughout the team final. Q: Guys, the final was quite nerve-wrecking. Denis Abliazin: Very much so! I...
The head coach of the Russian men’s team Valeri Alfosov has waited for this moment a long time and planned for it to happen, despite the injuries that plagued the team in the past year. His decision to put a three-eventer...
In 2019, Russian men won their first gold medal as a country (the Soviet men won quite a few golds at Worlds but the independent Russian team never rose higher than silver in the team final before 2019). With two World all-around...
