Angelina Simakova had quite a stressful month leading up to the European Championships. She was named to the team after winning the all-around at the Russian Championships, then, after her unfortunate performance at the Stuttgart...
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Maria Paseka competed at the European Championships since the surgery. She is currently only competing vault (even though she is training bars and hoping to come back on floor later, as well). Her first vault, a Cheng...
In March, Maria Paseka has returned to competition after undergoing back surgery last year. Not only she was able to restore her full difficulty on vault – an Amanar and a Cheng – she is also currently training bars...
In less than a month, Aliya Mustafina went from not making the Russian team for the European Championships to being Valentina Rodionenko’s darling again. Yesterday, she won gold at the Birmingham World Cup, with Riley...
Russia has announced the teams for the European Championships right after the nationals and, famously, Aliya Mustafina was left off the team. Since there’s not team competition at Euros this year, the federation decided to...
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...
Russian Championships has started yesterday with the individual qualifications and team finals for both MAG and WAG. While we’re used to not getting proper videos from the qualifications, this year was especially bad...
Russian Championships will take place on March 6-10 in Penza. The competition came back to Penza and the federation stopped trying to sell the tickets and decided to attract the spectators by promising them souvenirs and...
Russia wouldn’t be Russia if we didn’t have Valentina Rodionenko making claims about gymnasts and the gymnast contradicting those claims a few days later. Valentina Rodionenko said that Paseka’s first...
Maria Paseka has received full medical clearance to train and compete. Paseka underwent a back surgery last December and started training again in May. She’s been training on three events and even posted a video of herself...