Angelina Melnikova won silver in the all-around at the Russian Championships but had issues on floor both days. On one hand, this isn’t something new as she frequently lacked stamina on floor in the past. On the other hand...
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The all-around final at the Russian Championships seemed to be heading for some surprising results with the leader, Angelina Simakova, falling on vault and the second place qualifier, Angelina Melnikova, having a terrible...
Russian Championships has started yesterday with the individual qualifications and team finals for both MAG and WAG. While we’re used to not getting proper videos from the qualifications, this year was especially bad...
Aliya Mustafina and Denis Abliazin spent some time in Munich checking on their injuries and rehabbing them. Abliazin was originally supposed to compete in Cottbus since he will try qualifying to the Olympics via World Cups but he...
Angelina Melinikova keeps herself busy. Right after coming back from Qatar, she visited her native city of Voronezh where she gave an interview to the local newspaper. She then came back to Round Lake and will soon fly to...
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...
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...
Angelina Melnikova has struggled with consistency throughout last year and did not have a great performance at her first World Championships in Montreal. However, this year she has been extremely consistent and it looked like she...
Anna Pavlova talked to RG.ru about the Russian team’s chances at the World Championships and reflected on her own experience as a gymnast. She said that Aliya Mustafina has a strong character which should help her to come...
Moving from zero transparency with the team selection, Valentina Rodionenko felt generous today and revealed the lineups for Russian WAG for the qualifications at Worlds. Although, there were no surprises as we already knew that...