Russian Gymnastics Federation made a video about the preparations of the national team gymnasts for the Russian Championships that will start next week in Kazan. The video was filmed last Thursday when the women had a...
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Last weekend Kiev hosted the Ukraine International Cup (former known as Stella Zakharova Cup). Dzianis Sanuvonh from Belarus took gold in the men’s all-around competition with 77.700, Volodymyr Hrybuk from Ukraine became...
Bisweshwar Nandi, Dipa Karmakar’s coach said to the media that Karmakar will train in Moscow for a month in May. Karmakar decided to withdraw from the Commonwealth Games selection because she was not yet fully recovered...
Gennady Sartynsky gave an interview to Sport Express UA in which he talked about Oleg Verniaiev’s recovery, Ukrainian team’s Olympic qualification chances and Oleg Stepko’s chances of making the Russian...
Ex-Ukrainian/ex-Azerbaijani gymnast Oleg Stepko is now officially a Russian citizen and will be able to participate in the upcoming Russian Championships (only citizens are allowed to compete at nationals). Vladimir Kochnev...
Aliya Mustafina spent the last week training in Penza – the city where her main coach, Sergei Starkin, works. Local news filmed a feature about her training and talked to the gymnast herself and to one of her coaches, Pavel...
Besides “ending the Cold War“, Olga Korbut has done some actual charitable acts, such as making donations to an animal shelter and a children’s hospital in Arizona. Last year Olga Korbut sold her medals at an...
Maria Paseka was on MatchTV this week in a feature about the athlete-coach relationship. She talked about training with Marina Ulyankina, the coach she’s been working with since 14 years old: “At first, it was a bit...
David Belyavskiy broke the unlucky streak for Russia at Stuttgart winning the all-around at the World Cup by more than a point over Akash Modi. David won AA at DTB Pokal!!! Congratulations! pic.twitter.com/v7AwbRBCFS —...
It seems that at the moment you have to be named Angelina in order to receive top assignments on the Russian team. At first, Angelina Melnikova was listed for three World Cups (Stuttgart, Birmingham, and Tokyo – as Russia...