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...
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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...
Oleg Stepko, a newly-minted Russian citizen, competed in his first Russian Championships last month taking 10th place in the all-around and 6th place in the pommels final. He didn’t quite make his case for the Russian...
Looks like Artur Dalaloyan is back to her last year’s shape as he won the all-around by three points over David Beliavskiy. The all-around medals at Russian Championships are decided by the results of two days...
Gennady Sartynsky gave an interview to Sport Express UA in which he talked about Oleg Verniaiev’s recovery, Ukrainian team’s Olympic qualification chances and Oleg Stepko’s chances of making the Russian...
Ex-Ukrainian/ex-Azerbaijani gymnast Oleg Stepko is now officially a Russian citizen and will be able to participate in the upcoming Russian Championships (only citizens are allowed to compete at nationals). Vladimir Kochnev...
Oleg Stepko’s current coach Vladimir Kochnev confirmed to TASS that ex-Azerbaijani/Ukranian gymnast will receive Russian citizenship very soon. This will allow Stepko to compete at the Russian championships in April and to...
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...
With Verniaiev taking a break, Igor Radivilov is now the leader of the Ukrainian MAG team and he’s been giving lots of interviews recently. World of Sports filmed an interview with him in December and they also got to talk...
The drama of Oleg Stepko and Azerbaijan/Ukraine/Russia continues and an interesting turn happened today – Oleg Stepko said that he wants to try out for the Russian MAG team. First, a recap: In September, the Azerbaijani...