1980 Olympic champion Stella Zakharova talked to RBK Ukraine about the state of sport in Ukraine and whether a nation can still participate in sports events when it’s currently at war. She believes that sending athletes to...
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Elena Eremina announced on her Instagram that she had a spinal surgery and will be out of training for a while. On February 12th, she had a surgery to stabilize two lumbar vertebrae. The surgery was done in Munich and she’s...
“Ot dushi v dushu”, the Youtube channel that posted the weirdest interview with Oleg Verniaiev last week, promised to give us a sequel and boy, they did not disappoint. In the second part, Verniaiev talks about offers...
This is the moment we’ve been waiting for a month – despite being officially signed on December 21, Russian national team roster was only publicly announced today. The roster that lists the main team and the reserve...
Following the international success of the show, Russia also started filming its own version of Ninja Warrior, called Russian Ninja. During the casting, the producers posted calls on gymnastics forums, but in the end, only one...
This interview was published in the December issue of the Dynamo magazine (Dynamo is the gymnastics club that hosts Voronin Cup). It was taken by Natalia Kalugina. Kalugina first describes an incident that happened when...
Maria Paseka has only stopped training after Worlds, while waiting for her back surgery, and, as a true workaholic, she misses practices like crazy. She posted the following on her Instagram today: “When I was training, I...
Alexei Nemov published his memoir “Fair Play” (written together with a sports journalist Irina Stepantseva) in 2010. The memoir was unfortunately never officially translated into English and is currently out of print in...
Yulia Tipaeva, a former member of the Russian national team, had a very scary fall during a circus performance. Tipaeva retired from artistic gymnastics early and became a trapeze artist in a circus. On the 5th of January, during...
We’re continuing with the series of old interviews that have not been translated to English before. Alexei Nemov is one of the vice-presidents of the Russian artistic gymnastics federation and he often publicly speaks very...