This week, Simone Biles was able to beat the record previously held by Svetlana Khorkina – 20 medals at World Championships in women’s artistic gymnastics. The team medal for the US women became Biles’s 21st...
At the 2018 Worlds, the Russian team lost to the Chinese by only 0.049. This is less than even the lowest possible deduction on a skill. The mistake that cost the team the medal could have come from any of the gymnasts. Yet...
Valeri Alfosov, the head coach of the men’s team, felt from the start that this was the year Russian men could finally win the team gold at the World Championships. He noted some mistakes the team made but added that none...
David Belyavskiy for years has been on of the top gymnasts in the World. He’s a multiple European champion, yet, in the first seven World Championships, he was never able to win gold. Yesterday, the Russian men’s team...
Russian vault and rings start Denis Abliazin had to miss the 2018 World Championships in order to preserve his eligibility for a nominative spot he’s trying to earn through World Cups. This year, he won gold on both rings...
Russian men’s team won its first-ever gold medal in the team final at the World Championships. The USSR won the team gold in 1991, the last team competition at Worlds before the country ceased to exist. Russian team won...
2018 was difficult for the Ukrainian men’s team. With Oleg Verniaiev, Yevgen Yudenkov, and Petro Pakhniuk injured most of the year, the team without Yudenkov and Verniaiev and with Pakhniuk only doing three events placed...
Russian team came to Stuttgart quite depleted. First, an injury kept Aliya Mustafina out of the running. Then, Angelina Simakova who was on the nominative team, got injured during the training camp. They ended up having to bring...
In 2013, when Azerbaijan started building its artistic gymnastics program, they managed to recruit quite a few gymnasts, mainly from Russia and Ukraine. Marina Nekrasova was not one of their top recruits on the women’s side...
Taiwan’s team (or, rather, Chinese Taipei’s as the Olympic Committee chooses to call it) made history at these Worlds by not only qualifying to the Olympics but also making the men’s team final. Taiwan beat such...
