While the Russian men’s team led by seven points in the qualification and by four points in the team final, both days of competition didn’t go so smoothly for them – they had two falls on high bar in the...
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Yesterday, the Russian men’s team won in the team final at the European Championships in Glasgow. For the team, this competition became sort of a dress rehearsal before the World Championships which will take place in Doha...
Sasha Solovyeva did this interview with Viktoria Komova shortly before the European Championships when it wasn’t yet known that Komova would not make the Euros team. In the interview, Komova talks about the verification for the...
Yesterday, the Russian MAG team qualified to the team finals at Euros from the first place, with almost a seven-point lead over the second place. The team started quite shaky on the high bar, as this is the event they generally...
Nikolai Kuksenkov missed almost the whole last season because of a shoulder injury and then, when he finally came back last fall, his other shoulder got injured. This Euros mark the first major international competition for him...
Valeri Alfosov, the head coach of the Russian MAG team, talked to RIA Novosti about his expectations for the team at Euros and the plans for the rest of the season. Q: The team came back to Glasgow three years later. What...
Valentina Rodionenko kept praising the Russian team to the media, first saying that no falls on beam is a big achievement and the telling RIA Novosti that the gymnasts accomplished practically everything they were supposed to at...
Uliana Perebinosova was one of the somewhat controversial choices for the Russian WAG team for Euros since we haven’t really seen her in a while (she missed the Russian Cup because of a leg injury) and before that...
Lilia Akhaimova had a long way to the European Championships. She originally started training in Vladivostok, a city not known for a strong gymnastics program. She later moved to St Petersburg and started training with the...
Irina Alexeeva spent several years in the citizenship limbo – she lived and trained in the US and was among the top US juniors but couldn’t get onto the national team or get international assignments due to not having...