In 2017, Rebeca Andrade came to the World Championships in Montreal as one of the favorites for the all-around gold. Her second (out of three) ACL injury led to her withdrawing from the competition. Five years later she has...
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Members of the Brazilian national artistic gymnastics team flew to Portugal on a special flight together with athletes from several other sports. Since the coronavirus is still far from being under control in Brazil, many...
At the start of the quad, Brazil looked like they could potentially challenge for a team medal. They competed in the team final at the Rio Olympics. They lost Aleksandr Aleksandrov but gained Valeri Liukin. They had trouble...
Valeri Liukin has been a de-facto head coach for the Brazilian team for over a year now, even though he said in the past that he did not not have an official contract with the federation and does not know until for how long the...
Rebeca Andrade suffered her first ACL injury in 2015 and had to miss the World Championships that year. She came back in 2016 and helped Brazil to qualify to the Olympics. 2017 was supposed to be her year when she came to the...
Rebeca Andrade charmed the audience with her Beyonce floor routine, but now she turned to Brazilian rhythms with a new floor that incorporates “Baile de favela” a local hit representing the Brazilian funk...
Translated from Portuguese by Anastasia Stakheeva After eight years of absence Jade Barbosa, a two-times Worlds medalist, reappeared in Doha and became the 15th in the women’s all-around. A 27-year-old demonstrated that she had...
Valeri Liukin has been attending the Brazilian national team camps for several months now, however, there were no official announcements about his role on the team. He told TASS that currently he doesn’t have a contract...
Brazilian gymnast Petrix Barbosa decided to switch nationalities and will represent Portugal internationally. He plans on competing for Portugal already at this year’s World Championships in Doha. Barbosa left Brazil to...
Since his resignation from the US national team coordinator position, Valeri Liukin has kept a low profile. For a while, there were rumors of him potentially getting a job with the Russian national team, possibly fueled by the...