Italian Gymnastics Federation announced it will join the boycott of the FIG Congress next month over the participation of delegates from Russia and Belarus. Five other countries previously said they would boycott the Congress...
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The European Gymnastics Federation announced that the 2024 MAG and WAG European Championships were moved to Rimini, Italy. They were originally supposed to take place in Naples. The move was at request of the Italian Gymnastics...
When the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) banned Russian and Belarusian gymnasts from international competitions in March in response to the invasion of Ukraine, gymnastics leagues and individual clubs were faced with a...
As the novel coronavirus started spreading around the globe, we saw its effects on gymnastics already with Chinese gymnasts having to miss the Melbourne World Cup and Russian gymnasts pulling out of the American Cup (taking place...
Angelina Melnikova who started competing for GAL Lissone team at the Italian Serie A this year will have to miss the next competition due to quarantine measures imposed by the Russian Artistic Gymnastics Federation. It seems that...
This season, the Italian gymnastics league will have Russian stars among its competitors. Angelina Melnikova will compete for GAL Lissone team alongside Elisa Meneghini. Melnikova traveled to Italy last weekend to participate in...
Italian men did quite well at the European Championships, qualifying five gymnasts to event finals and leaving the competition with a silver on rings won by Marco Lodadio. For them, of course, the main goal is to have a great...
Marco Lodadio has already been a bronze medalist on rings but he didn’t have European medals on the event last week. In the rings final at the European championships, he scored the same as Denis Abliazin but lost the...
Vanessa Ferrari was able to return to competition this year for the first time after her 2017 Achilles tear and competed at three World Cups, placing first in Melbourne and third in Baku and Doha. She is trying to win an...
By Melissa Carwin Enus Mariani of Italy took to her Facebook wall to reveal that she has officially retired from elite gymnastics due to continued injury. She reports that writing down her official retirement from the sport is...