RUSADA has announced yesterday the ban of Angelina Simakova for the use of furosemide. The ban is for two years and starts on June 2nd of 2022. The time of the preliminary suspension is counted towards the ban and Simakova will...
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After the third verification today, Russian Artistic Gymnastics Federation has finally announced its women’s team (the men’s team was announced last week, after only two verifications). With several gymnasts still...
Shortly after the Russian Cup, Valentina Rodionenko has announced the MAG and WAG teams for the upcoming World Championships. The men’s team will consist of David Belyavskiy, Nikita Nagornyy, Artur Dalaloyan, and Ivan...
A rising Russian junior Vladislava Urazova won the all-around at the Russian Cup, leading over Angelina Melnikova by more than four points after two days. Russian Cup is normally a senior-only competition but during the...
Second-year senior Angelina Simakova is definitely one of the top Russian all-arounders at the moment and proved this by winning the AA gold at the Russian Championships and winning the verification before that. However, she has...
You just knew that when Angelina Simakova had an unfortunate floor routine with two falls in the all-around final at Euros, that Valentina Rodionenko would have something to say. She expressed her unhappiness with Simakova to the...
Russian Artistic Gymnastics Federation has published a new issue of Gymnastika magazine which features a reflection on the Russian Championships that took place a month ago. Angelina Simakova won the all-around at the...
This past month has been a rollercoaster for the Russian fans with Nikolai Kuksenkov being retired and unretired, David Belyavskiy missing Euros, then going to Euros, then not going to Euros again and now Aliya Mustafina...
In less than a month, Aliya Mustafina went from not making the Russian team for the European Championships to being Valentina Rodionenko’s darling again. Yesterday, she won gold at the Birmingham World Cup, with Riley...
Russia has announced the teams for the European Championships right after the nationals and, famously, Aliya Mustafina was left off the team. Since there’s not team competition at Euros this year, the federation decided to...