Maria Paseka will compete tonight in the vault final. She was first in qualifications but had a bad pattern going on this year: hitting her vaults in qualification and then making major mistakes in the final. This is what...
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Elena Eremina told journalists what an AA medal at Worlds means to her: “I would call this day the happiest day of my life. But I’m sure it can get better, really. I’m very happy with my first medal at the...
Svetlana Khorkina, just as Valentina Rodionenko, was left unhappy with the judging in the WAG qualifications. However, she believes that if the judging will be fair in the all-around final, both Eremina and Melnikova have a...
Elena Eremina will compete in the all-around final at Worlds today. Eremina is a first-year senior and so far her senior career has been going pretty well: she was 4th in AA at Euros and won silver on bars there. At Worlds, she...
Last night Oksana Chusovitina was elected as the new WAG athlete representative in the FIG replacing Beth Tweddle in this position. Chusovitina talked to R-Sport about what it means to her to be the athlete...
Yesterday, Russian WAG team compete in qualifications at the World Championships. They started on beam, where only two gymnasts performed, and both received relatively low scores, although everyone was judged quite harshly on...
Russian MAG team had mixed results in yesterday’s qualification. On one hand, David Belyavskiy finished third in the all-around qualification and might also qualify to three EFs while Denis Abliazin performed great on...
Valentina Rodionenko talked to R-Sport after the Russian team’s podium training. Rodionenko complained that gymnasts aren’t given enough time on the apparatuses during the podium training. Maria Paseka in her...
Valentina Rodionenko told to Stadium.ru that Angelina Melnikova recently suffered a minor ankle injury in training but the coaches hope she will recover by the time the competition starts. Just a couple of days ago, Rodionenko...
When announcing the Russian MAG team for Worlds, Valentina Rodionenko said that Denis Abliazin would compete on rings, vault, and floor. However, according to the MAG national team head coach, Valeriy Alfosov, Abliasin still...