Maria Kharenkova received permission to start competing for Georgia last month. This will allow her to go to the World Championships in Stuttgart where she will try to qualify to the Olympics. She talked to Sport-Express about...
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Georgia has been attracting gymnasts from Russia for several years now but they had little luck on the women’s side with gymnasts getting injured a lot. Two years ago, Alla Sosnitskaya planned to switch to Georgia but had...
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...
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...
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 Oleg Stepko was able to receive Russian citizenship as he is currently preparing for the Russian Championships that will take place in April. Stepko gave his first interview since leaving Azerbaijan to the Ukrainian...