After finally becoming an individual World medalist this year, Angelina Melnikova is working hard to prepare for her second Olympics. She talked to VTB about her journey between Rio and Tokyo. Q: Which of your medals from...
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Nikita Nagornyy talked to VTB about the team’s and his own victories in Stuttgart and the long road to this competition. Q: What were you feeling last year when you lost to China by 0.001 at the World...
The 2019 World all-around champion Nikita Nagornyy gave an interview to Soviet Sport, talking about his success this year and what he does in addition to gymnastics. Q: At the 2018 World Championships, you won team silver and...
Denis Abliazin has been struggling with injuries since the 2016 Olympics. He broke his leg in 2016 and had to miss the 2017 European Championships. At Worlds that year, he was only able to compete on rings but won silver on the...
While usually Russian gymnasts get on the national team radar when they are still juniors, Lilia Akhaimova only earned a spot on the national team at 18. She was supposed to be one of the alternates for the Rio Olympics but ended...
After a strong start of the season, when Mustafina won gold at the Birmingham World Cup, she ended missing the rest of the season and does not plan on returning to competition until 2020. Mustafina opted to miss the European...
In 2018, Artur Dalaloyan left Doha as not only the all-around World champion, but also the floor champion. In addition, he won silver on vault and bronze on parallel bars. This year, Dalaloyan was not able to defend either of his...
David Belyavskiy qualified to the pommel horse final at the World Championships but finished only 7th. He feels like at his current shape, he would not have been able to compete for a medal in that final even without a...
Nikita Nagornyy has been one of the strongest gymnasts in the World for a while, and his won his first senior medal at the European Championships back in 2015. However, his first individual medal at Worlds did not happen until...
As a rising junior and in 2016, Angelina Melnikova looked like the future big star of the Russian team but it took her a few more years to reach this status. As a senior, she has been competing non-stop since 2016, despite...