Valentina Rodionenko said she is not worried more countries will join the boycott of the FIG Congress following the example of Estonia and Poland: “We did not expect anything else from these countries. Those are their...
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The Ukrainian Gymnastics Federation announced they will boycott the FIG Congress in November due to the participation of delegates from Russia and Belarus. When the FIG banned athletes and judges from Russia and Belarus back in...
The International Gymnastics Federation has announced today that Russia and Belarus will face sanctions due to the two countries’ invasion of their neighbor Ukraine. Upcoming FIG events in the two countries will be canceled...
Azerbaijan’s WAG experienced another coaching change this year. Polish Przemysław Lis who has been coaching in Baku for the past two years has been replaced by Olga Barkalova from Belarus. Barkalova has been a senior coach...
Nellie Kim gave an interview to Sports.ru for their new series commemorating 40th anniversary of the 1980 Olympics. Kim talked about the Olympics, dealing with the USSR breaking down, moving to the US, and her career at the...
In 1989, Svetlana Boginskaya won three gold medals at the World Championships in Stuttgart – as a part of the Soviet team, in the all-around, and on floor. As she told Dvora Meyers, the medals aren’t what she remembers...
Yahor Sharamkou of Belarus unexpectedly ended up in the center of drama during the vault final at the 2019 European Championships. He did two clean vaults and was put in third place at the end of the final. However, Andrey...
First-year Belorussian senior Anastasia Alistratava had a spectacular performance at the last European Championships, finishing just outside the podium in the bars final. She qualified to the European Games as their sole WAG...
Nellie Kim has visited Minsk in the course of its preparation for the European Games. She has been named one of the ambassadors of the Games and also participated in the drawing of lots. She talked to Sport Panorama about...
Belorussian WAG has been going through many changes in the past few years. Valery Kolodinsky, Elena Piskun’s personal coach and a former national team head coach was one of the people up for this position in 2013 but the...