Azerbaijan’s Marina Nekrasova was a relatively unknown gymnast back in Russia who didn’t quite make the national team, unlike her more decorated ex-teammates Anna Pavlova and Yulia Inshina. However, she truly...
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Last year, Morinari Watanabe expressed his unhappiness with “country hopping” when gymnasts changed nationalities more than once and at the December FIG Congress, new restrictions on nationality changes were...
Yulia Inshina has officially announced her retirement today in an Instagram post. She wrote: “I’me very grateful to life that at 23 years old I first competed for Russia for five years and then for another five years...
Oksana Chusovitina was preparing for the Asian Games in Azerbaijan and she gave an interview to Azerisport.com while in Baku. Chusovitina competed at Asian Games multiple times and, in the past, won medals on each event and in...
Azerbaijan’s WAG team only includes four senior gymnasts and any injury can be devastating for the team. This year at the European Championships, Azerbaijan had the worst luck with injuries. Only three gymnasts came to...
While Azerbaijan now has almost a full senior MAG team of homegrown gymnasts, they still lack in difficulty to get closer to the team medal podium and are at risk of not making the top 24 teams at this year’s Worlds which...
This Saturday, June 23, Baku will host the European qualifier for the Youth Olympics Games that will take place in the fall. The competition will feature juniors from all around Europe trying to qualify to the Games. Some...
Oleg Stepko, a newly-minted Russian citizen, competed in his first Russian Championships last month taking 10th place in the all-around and 6th place in the pommels final. He didn’t quite make his case for the Russian...
Gennady Sartynsky gave an interview to Sport Express UA in which he talked about Oleg Verniaiev’s recovery, Ukrainian team’s Olympic qualification chances and Oleg Stepko’s chances of making the Russian...
Ex-Ukrainian/ex-Azerbaijani gymnast Oleg Stepko is now officially a Russian citizen and will be able to participate in the upcoming Russian Championships (only citizens are allowed to compete at nationals). Vladimir Kochnev...