Angelina Melnikova is just the third World all-around champion in the history of independent Russia. Previously, it was won three times by Svetlana Khorkina (in 1997, 2001, and 2003) and once by Aliya Mustafina (in 2010)...
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The reigning European all-around champion Viktoria Listunova competed in her first individual final at the Olympics yesterday. However, her floor routine did not go well from the start when she went out of bounds on her first...
In the past, Svetlana Khorkina has been extremely critical of Simone Biles multiple times and even accused her of doping. However, it appears that Biles withdrawing from the team and all-around final made Khorkina reevaluate her...
The Russian women’s team won their first ever team Olympic gold yesterday. This was one of the achievements Svetlana Khorkina strived for when she was an active gymnast. When Russia placed second in the 2000 team final...
German gymnasts competing in unitards at the European Championships in April made headlines all around the world even though unitards have been allowed in competition for a while and it was not the first instance of wearing a...
Svetlana Khorkina has participated in several Russian TV shows since her retirement from the sport (and in some while she was still competing). She was on the Russian version of Dancing with the Stars and Circus with the Stars...
The Russian Ministry of Sports proposed to start vaccinating all national team athletes against COVID-19. Many Russian people are not especially enthusiastic about the vaccine – less than half of poll respondents last month...
The release of Netflix’s Athlete A documentary prompted many gymnasts around the world to talk publicly about abuse they routinely experienced while training and competing. However, with the persistent culture of silence...
The Tokyo Olympics were officially postponed until 2021 and Svetlana Khorkina had things to say about it. In an interview to Sport-Express, she violated from her traditional narrative “it is a conspiracy against me”...
Svetlana Khorkina gave a radio interview and talked about how important it was for her to have a second child. Khorkina gave birth to her second son Ivan three months ago: “The pregnancy went normally, thank God. I think...