Daria Spiridonova, a 2015 Worlds champion on bars and a member of the silver-winning Russian team in Rio, had a hard time getting her routines back after Rio. At some point in 2018, she even had to train at her home gym and was...
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Russian team came to Stuttgart quite depleted. First, an injury kept Aliya Mustafina out of the running. Then, Angelina Simakova who was on the nominative team, got injured during the training camp. They ended up having to bring...
For a while, it looked like Daria Spiridonova would become an alternate on the Russian team, just as she was the last year. Maria Paseka is the reigning European champion on vault and for Spiridonova, the Worlds became the first...
Russian WAG team ended up in a difficult situation without much depth. After Aliya Mustafina and Angelina Simakova got injured, they were left without enough all-arounders and with specialists whose strengths don’t match...
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...
The Russian Cup will take place from Friday 23rd of August till Tuesday 27th of August in Penza. Most top national team gymnasts are expected to compete as it will be one of the stages of the Worlds team selection. Notably absent...
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...
The power couple of the Russian national team, Daria Spiridonova and Nikita Nagornyy, got married today in Nagornyy’s native city, Rostov-on-Don. The couple tried keeping a low profile and did not make any announcements...
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...