The month of January brought us news that Aliya Mustafina started working as a coach with the Russian junior national team, joining her teammates Ksenia Afanasyeva and Nikolai Kuksenkov. At the time, Mustafina was listed on the...
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Angelina Melnikova potentially can qualify to all the finals at the upcoming European Games and will likely leave the competition with more than one medal. She said to R-Sport that she will test her new beam and floor routines at...
The all-around final at the Russian Championships seemed to be heading for some surprising results with the leader, Angelina Simakova, falling on vault and the second place qualifier, Angelina Melnikova, having a terrible...
Ksenia Afanasyeva has been posting some photos from a gym lately and the fans hoped that she might be coming back. Turns out she’s been getting into coaching more and started working as one of the national team floor...
Elena Vaytshekhovskaya has published a great new interview with Aliya Mustafina on R-Sport. Here’s the English translation. Tracksuit, hair undone, a complete absence of makeup on her face and immense fatigue in the eyes. Only...
This is the moment we’ve been waiting for a month – despite being officially signed on December 21, Russian national team roster was only publicly announced today. The roster that lists the main team and the reserve...
Ksenia Afanasyeva got married to Roman Suetin, a fellow gymnast, last Fall, right after the Olympics. While Afanasyeva is still officially on the Russian national team, she stopped training after the Games and did not announce a...