You just knew that when Angelina Simakova had an unfortunate floor routine with two falls in the all-around final at Euros, that Valentina Rodionenko would have something to say. She expressed her unhappiness with Simakova to the...
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Last year, at the 2018 European Championships, Melanie De Jesus Dos Santos was the unofficial all-around winner (because no AA title was awarded). This year, she made it official. For De Jesus Dos Santos, it was a tough battle...
Angelina Simakova had quite a stressful month leading up to the European Championships. She was named to the team after winning the all-around at the Russian Championships, then, after her unfortunate performance at the Stuttgart...
Angelina Melnikova has Olympic, World and European medals but none of them in the all-around despite being one of the strongest all-arounders in the world. Perhaps, this will change today as she finished the qualification...
Maria Paseka competed at the European Championships since the surgery. She is currently only competing vault (even though she is training bars and hoping to come back on floor later, as well). Her first vault, a Cheng...
Nikita Nagornyy is the World bronze AA medalist and is coming to the European Championships with the highest combined difficulty (he leads over Artur Dalaloyan by almost a point). He also won almost everything at the Russian...
Vladislav Poliashov has been on the national team for quite a while and won many medals at the national championships but often fell short of making big international teams. He was an alternate at the 2016 Rio Olympics and then...
This past month has been a rollercoaster for the Russian fans with Nikolai Kuksenkov being retired and unretired, David Belyavskiy missing Euros, then going to Euros, then not going to Euros again and now Aliya Mustafina...
In less than a month, Aliya Mustafina went from not making the Russian team for the European Championships to being Valentina Rodionenko’s darling again. Yesterday, she won gold at the Birmingham World Cup, with Riley...
Russia has announced the teams for the European Championships right after the nationals and, famously, Aliya Mustafina was left off the team. Since there’s not team competition at Euros this year, the federation decided to...