Valentina Rodionenko has announced the Russian WAG team for the upcoming European Championships: Angelina Melnikova, Angelina Simakova, Anastasia Iliankova, and Maria Paseka who’s already vaulting an Amanar only a year...
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Angelina Simakova won the all-around at the Russian Championships despite having trouble on floor on the first day and falling on vault on the second day. Simakova told TASS that the results were not surprising as she expected to...
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...
Andrei Rodionenko talked to the media about the results of the World Championships for the Russian team. He praised Aliya Mustafina and said the team really needs her: “Aliya wanted to be here, she earned that right. She...
Valentina Rodionenko told TASS that the coaches decided to put Aliya Mustafina on floor in the qualifications instead of Angelina Simakova. Simakova was originally supposed to do all-around along with Melnikova and Alexeeva but...
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...
Russia became one of the last countries to announce their final teams for Worlds. During the month-long selection camp, both MAG and WAG had three verifications, the last one taking place yesterday, however, the nominative teams...
Yesterday was the last day for submitting the nominative teams for the World Championships to FIG and today Valentina Rodionenko officially announced the teams to the media. Of course, there’s still a month till Worlds and...
In the senior qualification, Russian team finished second after France and had falls on beam and floor. Valentina Rodionenko told TASS that the lack of experience is the cause for the falls: “Today we didn’t do well...