Andrei Rodionenko talked to the media about the results of the World Championships for the Russian team. He praised Aliya Mustafina and said the team really needs her: “Aliya wanted to be here, she earned that right. She...
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Overall, both Russian MAG and WAG had a quite successful competition in Doha. Both won silver medals in the team finals and gymnasts made multiple individual finals. However, while MAG also picked up five individual medals (four...
Aliya Mustafina gave an interview to R-Sport. She talked about coming back, dealing with the knee injury, and the joy that gymnastics still brings her. Q: Six years have passed since your first Olympic gold. How did you change...
Artur Dalaloyan finished this competition as the most decorated MAG gymnast – in addition to his silver in the team final and gold in the all-around, he also won gold on floor, silver on vault and bronze on parallel bars...
For Artur Dalaloyan, this has been a pretty busy competition. He competed on all six events in the qualification and the team final where Russia placed second. Then he won the all-around final. He also won the Longines Prize for...
Yesterday, Irina Alexeeva competed in the all-around final as the second Russian all-arounder in addition to Angelina Melnikova. Alexeeva’s difficulty doesn’t yet allow how to fight for AA medals at major competitions...
When a Russian gymnast misses out on a medal by less than 0.1, you just know Valentina Rodionenko will have things to say. And she did. Rodionenko claimed that the judging was not objective and the head judge on beam has been...
Angelina Melnikova has struggled with consistency throughout last year and did not have a great performance at her first World Championships in Montreal. However, this year she has been extremely consistent and it looked like she...
For Nikita Nagornyy, today’s final was a redemption for both the team final in which Russia lost to China by 0.05 and the last year’s AA final in which Nagornyy finished 10th despite having the highest...
Artur Dalaloyan won the first Worlds AA medal for Russia in nine years (Yuri Ryazanov won bronze in 2009) and the first gold in 19 years (Nikolai Kryukov was the World AA champion in 1999). Nikita Nagornyy won the bronze medal...