Viktoria Komova said to TASS that she’s likely to retire after the Tokyo Olympics although she doesn’t know yet what she wants to do after retiring. Komova came back to competitive gymnastics last year after taking a...
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After the NBC’s Dateline documentary aired, Larry Nassar made news in Russia again. Generally, the coverage of the story in the Russian media has been mixed with some media just translating the English news as is, some...
WOGA’s Irina Alexeeva had a quite successful first national championships in Russia placing 7th in the all-around and then winning silver on bars. In an interview to R-Sport, she said that she is going back to the States...
Maria Paseka continued our beloved saga of “will she/won’t she compete at Worlds” contradicting the words of Valentina Rodionenko about a possible recovery in time for this year’s Worlds. She said to media...
Artur Dalaloyan who won the Russian championships after hitting all of his routines for two days in a row said to TASS that this victory means even more to him than last year’s national title because he showed he can be...
WOGA’s Irina Alexeeva had a good competition in the qualifications at the Russian Championships today except for the fall on beam. She ended up in 7th place with 53.732 surpassing some of the girls currently on the national...
Ksenia Afanasyeva has been posting some photos from a gym lately and the fans hoped that she might be coming back. Turns out she’s been getting into coaching more and started working as one of the national team floor...
The former UK prime minister David Cameron claimed to the media that Russia won the bid to host the World Cup due to corruption. If you’re wondering why you’re reading about football here, it’s because Svetlana...
At the press conference before the Russian Championships, Aliya Mustafina talked about competing for the first time after coming back: “The current Russian Championships will be very important for me because I took a break...
Russian junior gymnast Viktoriia Listunova participated in a talent show called “Blue Bird” with a beam performance. On this show, kids from all around Russia can compete demonstrating their talents (such a singing or...