Yesterday Aliya Mustafina made the official announcement that she will be going back to the Round Lake. Here’s everything we know so far about her comeback. Aliya gave birth to her daughter Alisa in early June. The gymnast...
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Russian company Element, with the support from The Ministry of Sport and RUSADA, developed a new app that’s supposed to help athletes to check whether the drugs or supplements they take contain any prohibited substances...
Just before the two competitions that are supposed to be qualifying stages for the Worlds team – Universiade and the Russian Cup – Valentina Rodionenko announced the preliminary teams for the Worlds: “So far it...
Aleksei Morozov, a former hockey player and a current high-ranked official at the Russian Ministry of Sports, during the discussions about coaches’ preparation in Russia, claimed that some of the current coaches on the...
It looks like Georgia is winning the game of “who will get the best Russian gymnasts” among the FSU countries. Last year Polina Borzykh started to compete for the Georgian team and this year she was also joined by...
“Import replacement” is one of Russia’s big goals after the economic sanctions were imposed on Russia by the Western countries in 2014. The idea of self-sufficiency and making Russia great again led to the...
Tatyana Nabieva recently talked to “Novoye Delo” about coaching in Dagestan. Nabieva is helping to develop a gymnastics program in this Russian region. She plans to come to Dagestan once a month to help with coaching...
The national team of Malaysia is currently training in Penza, at the Burtasy training center. The gymnasts had at training camp at the Round Lake first, then came for two weeks of training in Penza. They are preparing for the...
Arina Kutepova, 17, from Chelyabinsk became the first Russian gymnast with a Down syndrome to achieve the “Candidate for Master of Sports” rank. In the Russian system, this is the first of the international elite...
Elena Vaytsekhovskaya interviewed Gennady Elfimov, the personal coach of Viktoria Komova, for Sport Express. Elfimov talked about Komova’s comeback, how their training changed and his vision of gymnastics. The interview...