Overall, both Russian MAG and WAG had a quite successful competition in Doha. Both won silver medals in the team finals and gymnasts made multiple individual finals. However, while MAG also picked up five individual medals (four...
Translated from Portuguese by Anastasia Stakheeva After eight years of absence Jade Barbosa, a two-times Worlds medalist, reappeared in Doha and became the 15th in the women’s all-around. A 27-year-old demonstrated that she had...
By Mari Ilona Szutenberg The scandal-rocked All Olympia Gymnastics Center announced on 3rd November that it will be closing down. Run by former gymnasts Artur Akopyan and Galina Marinova, the club had been shaken after reports...
Aliya Mustafina gave an interview to R-Sport. She talked about coming back, dealing with the knee injury, and the joy that gymnastics still brings her. Q: Six years have passed since your first Olympic gold. How did you change...
Artur Dalaloyan finished this competition as the most decorated MAG gymnast – in addition to his silver in the team final and gold in the all-around, he also won gold on floor, silver on vault and bronze on parallel bars...
For Artur Dalaloyan, this has been a pretty busy competition. He competed on all six events in the qualification and the team final where Russia placed second. Then he won the all-around final. He also won the Longines Prize for...
Oksana Chusovitina has won nine World medals on vault, with her first in 1991 when she still represented USSR and her last one exactly 20 years later in 2011 when she represented Germany. Now she hopes to win another one in 2019...
Aliya Mustafina is a two-time Olympics champion on uneven bars but, strangely, enough, she’s never won gold on this event at Worlds. She won silver on bars at her first Worlds in 2010 and then a bronze in 2013. She is still...
Yesterday, Irina Alexeeva competed in the all-around final as the second Russian all-arounder in addition to Angelina Melnikova. Alexeeva’s difficulty doesn’t yet allow how to fight for AA medals at major competitions...
When a Russian gymnast misses out on a medal by less than 0.1, you just know Valentina Rodionenko will have things to say. And she did. Rodionenko claimed that the judging was not objective and the head judge on beam has been...
