Oleg Verniaiev is being accused of being pro-Russian by the Ukrainians again. The first time it happened was in 2015 when he took a photo with David Belyavskiy at the European Championships. Verniaiev said he even received...
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At the meeting at the Ministry of Sports, Andrei Rodionenko said that the Russian team will have two training camps in Japan in order to prepare for the Olympic Games in Tokyo. According to Rodionenko, the team plans on having a...
Russia wouldn’t be Russia if we didn’t have Valentina Rodionenko making claims about gymnasts and the gymnast contradicting those claims a few days later. Valentina Rodionenko said that Paseka’s first...
Maria Paseka has received full medical clearance to train and compete. Paseka underwent a back surgery last December and started training again in May. She’s been training on three events and even posted a video of herself...
The power couple of the Russian national team, Daria Spiridonova and Nikita Nagornyy, got married today in Nagornyy’s native city, Rostov-on-Don. The couple tried keeping a low profile and did not make any announcements...
Alyona Shchennikova’s participation in the Voronin Cup last week and the fact that she has yet to sign her NLI for Michigan led to some speculations that she might consider a nationality switch. According to College Gym...
For a while now, major Russian national competitions took place in Penza, a city not very far from Moscow and home to Denis Abliazin and Natalia Kapitonova. Then, the Russian Artistic Gymnastics Federation decided to branch out a...
Ivan Stretovich hasn’t had much luck since the Rio Olympics. First, he had a nagging wrist injury which eventually required a surgery. Then his recovery was slowed down by an elbow injury. He ended up not making any major...
This year was quite successful for Dmitrii Lankin – he made the team for European and World Championships for the first time and won gold and silver in the team finals respectively. On those teams, he competed on floor...
The Voronin Cup is traditionally one of the last international competitions of the year. It doesn’t normally draw the strongest field, especially on the senior side, but you can always count on seeing a few big names. For...