Aliya Mustafina has been working as the head coach of the junior national team for over five months now. After her retirement from elite gymnastics was officially announced at the Russian Cup in Novosibirsk, she talked to Irina...
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Doha World Cup, the last installment of the Apparatus WC series, was postponed several times and finally scheduled for June 23-26. Some gymnasts will try to grab this last opportunity for Olympic qualification and those who have...
With the conclusion of the all-around final at the Russian Cup, Valentina Rodionenko announced the Olympic teams, and following the event finals, she added the names of the individual gymnasts that are the frontrunners for the...
On the first day of the event finals, Lilia Akhaimova won gold on vault and Vladislava Urazova – on uneven bars. For Akhaimova, this victory was especially significant. Vault and floor are the two events that can get her...
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...
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...
Aliya Mustafina has officially announced her retirement at the 2021 Russian Cup in Novosibirsk. The federation honored Mustafina during the competition’s opening ceremony. Mustafina stopped training in the summer of...
The Russian Cup starts next week and will serve as one of the major trials for the Russian Olympic team. The other trials will be behind closed doors – verifications at Round Lake, so this will likely be our only chance to...
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...