Arina Kutepova, Russia’s first elite gymnast with Down syndrome, recently came back from the DSIGO Gymnastics World Championships with a haul of medals – a gold on beam, silvers on bars and floor and a bronze on...
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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...
Last year Olivia Cimpian, one of the rising seniors of the Romanian team who competed at home European Championships in Cluj, left Romania for Hungary. Her grandmother was a Hungarian national and she was able to...
Laney Madsen, US gymnast/cheerleader who recently announced she is going to represent Bulgaria internationally is now one step closer to that as she received her FIG license. Madsen originally said that she was going to compete...
Nellie Kim recently visited Russia in order to attend a rhythmic gymnastics festival organized by Alina Kabaeva. Kim gave an interview to a local website Mosregtoday.ru and talked about her gymnastics career, her current work and...
Well, now it’s absolutely official: from now on, Irina Alexeeva is able to compete internationally for Russia as her FIG license has been issued. Alexeeva officially made the Russian national team last month after a...
Tajikistan’s artistic gymnastics is currently more or less non-existent with only a few active gyms in the whole country in which kids train on the equipment left over from the Soviet times. In 2011, Tajikistan’s...
After Ukrainian recruits left Azerbaijan, it apparently turned to Russia to recruit for its MAG program. Considering that ex-Russian WAG gymnasts seem to be quite well in Baku, recruiting Russian gymnasts might be the right...
It seems that as the gymnastics community we should brace ourselves for more heartbreaks in the coming future as the brave women giving their victim impact statements at Larry Nassar’s sentencing embolden others to talk...
Igor Radivilov, the silver medalist on vault at Worlds, was chosen as the Athlete of the Month by the Ukrainian Olympic Committee. It was the first award of this kind for Radivilov. In an interview to iSport.ua he talks what the...