Oleg Verniaiev talked to RIA Novosti Ukraine about how winning an Olympic medal can change the life of an athlete in Ukraine. Q: At the 2016 Olympics you put gold and silver into Ukraine’s “bank”. Did the...
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Oleg Verniaiev and Igor Radivilov who both won silver medals at the 2017 Worlds will be receiving the President of Ukraine stipend for outstanding athletes. The monthly amount is 9,000 grivnas which is about $320. Their personal...
Oleg Verniaiev posted a post-surgery photo on his Instagram. Earlier, his coach said that the leg injury has been bothering the gymnast since before the Olympics and he has torn a ligament in his shoulder this year. According to...
Ukraine’s National Olympic Committee has named Igor Radivilov November’s Athlete of the Month – this is the second time Radivilov has earned this honor. Radivilov talked to Telegraf.com.ua about winning the...
Oleg Verniaiev is currently enjoying his vacation in the Maldives. This is the first time he took a break after Rio despite being injured this whole time. He finished his last two competitions of the season – the Cottbus...
Gennady Sartynsky, the head coach of the Ukrainian MAG team and the personal coach of Oleg Verniaiev, talked to iSport.ua about the past season, the team’s prospects and Oleg Verniaiev’s injury: A: The post-Olympic...
Unlike many gymnasts who took breaks after the Olympics, Oleg Verniaiev has been competing non-stop for the past year, not missing a single major international competition, attending World cups and even competing for a German...
Oleg Verniaiev was one of the medal favorites coming into the all-around competition, especially after Kohei Uchimura withdrew after an ankle injury. However, the final didn’t go so well for Verniaiev and he wasn’t...
Yesterday, Oleg Verniaiev became the all-around champion at the Universiade. In an interview to XSport UA Verniaiev said he wasn’t sure he’d be able to compete because of a bad fall on parallel bars in qualification...
Yesterday the Ukrainian team took silver at the Universiade, while Japan which did not include many big names, took gold, getting ahead of Ukraine by more than two points. In an interview to XSport UA, Verniaiev admitted that...