Changing time zones can be a challenge for gymnasts and it looks like one of the aims of the Russian Cup was to try competing as close to the Tokyo time zone as possible. The event took place in Novosibirsk (+4 hours from Moscow...
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The Russian Cup serves as one of the selection stages for the Tokyo Olympics. The main contenders for the Olympic teams were more or less known in advance and Russia even sent the projected teams to Euros to test them (with...
This week, Russian gymnasts are competing at the Russian Cup in Novosibirsk. The competition is a part of the selection process for the Olympics, although the teams will not be named until July and several internal selections...
Nikita Nagornyy told TASS the Russian national team gymnasts have all received COVID-19 vaccines: “All of us have been vaccinated already. Everything’s great, we have the antibodies.” The locally developed...
Alexey Nemov was on the only Russian MAG team that won Olympic gold back in 1996 in Atlanta. Twenty five years later Russian men have a good chance to repeat this victory, but Nemov is worried that Dalaloyan’s injury might...
Anatoly Zabelin is Nikita Nagornyy’s personal coach. In an interview to R-Sport, he talked about working with Nagornyy, training during the pandemic, and preparing for the Olympics. A: I’m happy with everything. We...
Nikita Nagornyy talked to TASS about competing at the European Championships, preparing for competitions during the pandemic, and what other element was considered when he decided he wanted to have one named after him. Q: How...
Both Russian men and women left the European Championships with a collection of medals of different colors. Valentina Rodionenko told MatchTV she was very happy with the results despite some mistakes from the gymnasts and talked...
Nikita Nagornyy won three medals in three finals on the first day of event finals at the European Championships but was clearly tired on Sunday, the fourth competition day in a row for him. He was a medal contender on both vault...
Nikita Nagornyy continued this domination on the third day of competition at the European Championships. Nagornyy made all event finals except for high bar (where he is the first reserve) and won three medals in the three finals...