After winning bronze on beam at the 2017 World Championships, Alt experienced a string of injuries. This winter, she was recovering from shoulder surgery and hoped to come back for the 2019 Worlds. However, she is not setting any...
Aliya Mustafina had to miss the European Games and the World Championships due to an injury. Earlier she said she is currently taking a little break from gymnastics in order to find motivation again. She told R-Sport that the...
When Svetlana Khorkina first made the national team, her new teammates asked how many Olympic Games she would like to compete at. “Seven!”, she blurted, not quite knowing how often the Games happen. The teammates...
After a strong start of the season, when Mustafina won gold at the Birmingham World Cup, she ended missing the rest of the season and does not plan on returning to competition until 2020. Mustafina opted to miss the European...
Oksana Chusovitina who qualified for her 8th Olympics earlier this months told TASS she plans on retiring after Tokyo: “This will be my last Olympics, I’ll retire and won’t be an active athlete but I’ll...
By Moll Mannix Turkish gymnast Tutya Yilmaz has retired following the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart. The 20 year old shared a short video and caption on her Instagram, stating: ‘Today I am saying goodbye to my...
Daria Spiridonova broke her ankle last year and ended up having to miss most of the 2019 season in order to recover. She was originally reluctant to talk about the injury and carefully posed for photos so that her cast...
In 1989, Svetlana Boginskaya won three gold medals at the World Championships in Stuttgart – as a part of the Soviet team, in the all-around, and on floor. As she told Dvora Meyers, the medals aren’t what she remembers...
Ivan Stretovich had a long recovery from the wrist injury he got in 2016. He was only able to make a major team for the first time since the Olympics this year. Surgeries, growth spurt and coaching issues were among the obstacles...
In 2018, Artur Dalaloyan left Doha as not only the all-around World champion, but also the floor champion. In addition, he won silver on vault and bronze on parallel bars. This year, Dalaloyan was not able to defend either of his...