Angelina Melnikova gave this interview to Alexandra Solovyeva and Timur Ganeev of Izvestia shortly before leaving for the European Championships. She talked about her goals for the competition, overcoming the lack of confidence...
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While Sanne Wevers came to Glasgow as the reigning Olympic champion and a silver Worlds medalist on beam, she has never won any medals on that event at the European Championships before. We talked to Sanne Wevers after she won...
Sasha Solovyeva did this interview with Viktoria Komova shortly before the European Championships when it wasn’t yet known that Komova would not make the Euros team. In the interview, Komova talks about the verification for the...
In 2016, Houry Gebeshian made history when became the first Armenian female gymnast to qualify to the Olympics. Now, as a coach, she’s trying to help another Armenian gymnast to make it to Tokyo. Anahit Assadourian, a...
Igor Radivilov will compete at the European Championships in two weeks. Recently, the Ukrainian Olympic Committee published an interview with Radivilov talking about his preparation for the main competitions of the season and the...
Viktoria Komova recently competed at the Russian Cup where she took bronze in the all-around and silver on bars. Despite not quite having her full difficulty back and still recovering from a toe injury and bronchitis, she’s...
Oleg Verniaiev gave an interview to “The Interviewer”, a Ukrainian tv show. He talked about how his recovery is going, saying that he still hopes to be ready by October and compete at Worlds. He also told the story of...
Angelina Melnikova gave an interview to a local Voronezh radio station when she was briefly home after the Russian Championships. She talked about getting new routines, her daily schedule and how she feels about having Mustafina...
The month of Aliya Mustafina continues with an interview that she gave to sntat.ru, a Kazan-based website. Since it’s a local website and the journalist likely doesn’t specialize in gymnastics, some questions are...
Samir Aït Saïd gave this interview to Le Figaro, talking about returning to competition in 2017 and training for the Tokyo Olympics. The translation by K. Chevallier. Q: Looking back, Samir, was your 4th place in the rings...