Daria Nagornaya (nee Spiridonova) talked to MatchTV about her life after retiring from artistic gymnastics last year. Q: Daria, we are now at a cafe with a huge display case full of desserts. Do you allow yourself eat such...
Viktoria Listunova talked to MatchTV about her first senior season, the injury she’s recovering from, and plans for the next season. Q: Vika, what happened to your elbow? A: I got injured already in Tokyo, after I...
Angelina Melnikova gave a short interview to Izvestia after arriving in Moscow from the World Championships in Japan. Melnikova came home with all-around gold, floor silver, and vault bronze. Q: Were you able to recover...
In the floor final at the recent World Championships, Angelina Melnikova originally placed first. However, after Mai Murakami submitted an inquiry and her D score was raised, Melnikova moved into the second place...
Andrey Medvedev has made history for Israel at these World Championships by winning a bronze medal on vault. The four medals the country had from Worlds before that were all on floor (two bronzes by Alexander Shatilov and two...
Angelina Melnikova won silver on floor at the World Championships today but the happiness from the medal was marred by the score she believes to be too low. It took judges quite a long time to announce Melnikova’s score and...
Angelina Melnikova is a two-time European medalist on vault and made the final on this event at the Tokyo Olympics. However, coming to Kitakyushu, she had no plans of doing two vaults in the qualification and didn’t even...
At his first senior World Championships, Grigori Klimentev was the only Russian MAG gymnast to qualify to an event final. After Nikita Ignatyev’s 17th place in the all-around final, Klimentev stayed the only medal hope for...
Angelina Melnikova is just the third World all-around champion in the history of independent Russia. Previously, it was won three times by Svetlana Khorkina (in 1997, 2001, and 2003) and once by Aliya Mustafina (in 2010)...
When Illia Kovtun won five golds and a silver at the junior European Championships in 2020, it was clear that he is is capable of having an absolutely spectacular senior career. However, he was not necessarily expected to start...
