In 2016, Angelina Melnikova was the youngest gymnast on the Russian team and dealing with an injury that severely limited her ability to compete. As a result, she was not able to qualify to the all-around final. In 2021, she came...
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In the past, Svetlana Khorkina has been extremely critical of Simone Biles multiple times and even accused her of doping. However, it appears that Biles withdrawing from the team and all-around final made Khorkina reevaluate her...
After the all-around final where Nikita Nagorny won bronze, he apologized to the fans and was visibly upset with the results. Nikita Nagorny’s personal coach Anatoly Zabelin believes he will get over it...
Nikita Nagorny apologized to the fans on the medal podium for his results, he thought he let them down by winning a bronze medal. Head coach of the Russian men’s team Valeri Alfosov told TASS that even though Nagorny had...
Lilia Akhaimova is a relatively late bloomer in Russian gymnastics – she only made the national team at the age of 18 and was never on the NT radar as a junior. That was because she started out in Vladivostok, a city with...
Because the Russian national team usually travels only with the NT coaches, Angelina Melnikova is in Tokyo without her personal coaches. Natalia Ishkova and Sergey Denisevich are cheering on her from home. Natalia Ishkova was...
As the reigning World and European AA champion, Nikita Nagorny came to Tokyo as a heavy favorite to win the all-around gold but had to settle for bronze. He qualified to the final in second place, over 0.5 behind Hashimoto Daiki...
Artur Dalaloyan finished competing at the Tokyo Olympics today. Back in April when he tore his Achilles, he thought he could miss out on the Olympics. Later, the plan was to compete on only four events. But Dalaloyan ended up...
The Russian women’s team won their first ever team Olympic gold yesterday. This was one of the achievements Svetlana Khorkina strived for when she was an active gymnast. When Russia placed second in the 2000 team final...
Artur Dalaloyan did all six events in both the qualification and the team final despite being just 3.5 months after the Achilles surgery. Tomorrow, he will compete on all six events once again in the all-around final. He is the...