The Russian Ministry of Sports proposed to start vaccinating all national team athletes against COVID-19. Many Russian people are not especially enthusiastic about the vaccine – less than half of poll respondents last month...
Russia has received a two-year “ban” that among other things prohibits the use of the Russian flag and anthem at competitions. However, it does allow the word “Russia” to be present on the uniforms and...
The COVID-19 pandemic changed our whole life in a very short period of time. Things that seemed normal before – coughing in public, talking to people without a mask on, gathering in large crowds – seem weird now, and...
It is a familiar feeling by now – a gymnastics competition being canceled. Last year, most of the gymnastics competitions worldwide ended up canceled or postponed. The hope was that by 2021, things would start looking...
Welcome to the (second) Olympic year. Russia traditionally has a very long holiday period for New Year and Orthodox Christmas (on January 7th), so the Russian national team had a break before coming back to Round Lake yesterday...
MyKayla Skinner has reported on her Instagram that she’s been hospitalized with pneumonia that resulted from COVID-19. Skinner said she caught the virus from her husband Jonas Harmer who had gotten infected on a business...
Gennady Sartynsky, the head coach of the Ukrainian MAG team, told Tribuna.com that the FIG told everyone involved not to comment on Verniaiev’s provisional suspension. Sartynsky said that Verniaiev is currently doing...
Kazakhstan’s Nariman Kurbanov started his post-lockdown season with a gold on pommel horse in Szombathely, his best event. He talked to the National Olympic Committee about coping with the lockdown and his plans for the...
Oleg Verniaiev, the reigning Olympic parallel bars champion and silver all-around medalist, is provisionally suspended by the International Gymnastics Federations. This was confirmed by the federation’s media representative...
Vasily Titov, the head of the Russian Artistic Gymnastics Federation told R-Sport that despite the pandemics, the national team was able to stay on track in their preparations for the Olympics and he is optimistic about the...
