Szombathely Challenge Cup might become the first international artistic gymnastics competition after a long break. While the rest of the World Challenge Cups were canceled, Szombathely stayed in the FIG schedule. It is currently...
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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...
After the 2020 Olympics were postponed for another year, the FIG announced that the 2021 World Championships would still be held despite the fact that normally, there are no Worlds in Olympic years. The competition was supposed...
The inaugural edition of the Junior World Championships in artistic gymnastics took place in the summer of 2019 and was supposed to repeat every two years. However, the International Gymnastics Federation has announced that the...
Artistic Gymnastics World Championships are a notoriously long event. With a couple of days for acclimatization and training, then podium training and competition, gymnasts can currently expect to spend more than two weeks at...
International Gymnastics Federation and Belgian Gymnastics Federation have announced that the 2023 World Championships in artistic gymnastics will take place in Antwerp. This will be the fourth time for Belgium to host Worlds and...
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...
Olivia Cimpian last competed internationally for Romania in the spring of 2017. Due to a disarray in the Romanian gymnastics federation, her parents decided to move her to Hungary since she also had the Hungarian citizenship...
In August, Dutch gymnast Celine van Gerner decided to match her makeup to the choreography of her floor routine for the floor final at the European Championships. She had dramatic eye makeup and added some stripes to her cheeks...
Aleksandra Shevchenko didn’t enjoy a long gymnastics career having to retire after 2004 because of injuries. Her first major international competition – the 2003 Worlds – didn’t go so well and she...