When Svetlana Khorkina first made the national team, her new teammates asked how many Olympic Games she would like to compete at. “Seven!”, she blurted, not quite knowing how often the Games happen. The teammates...
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After a strong start of the season, when Mustafina won gold at the Birmingham World Cup, she ended missing the rest of the season and does not plan on returning to competition until 2020. Mustafina opted to miss the European...
Oksana Chusovitina who qualified for her 8th Olympics earlier this months told TASS she plans on retiring after Tokyo: “This will be my last Olympics, I’ll retire and won’t be an active athlete but I’ll...
In 1989, Svetlana Boginskaya won three gold medals at the World Championships in Stuttgart – as a part of the Soviet team, in the all-around, and on floor. As she told Dvora Meyers, the medals aren’t what she remembers...
Ivan Stretovich had a long recovery from the wrist injury he got in 2016. He was only able to make a major team for the first time since the Olympics this year. Surgeries, growth spurt and coaching issues were among the obstacles...
After Simone Biles broke Svetlana Khorkina’s record of most medals at World Championships, she first commented on Mustafina’s chances of going to the Olympics, and then decided to comment on Biles’s performance...
This week, Simone Biles was able to beat the record previously held by Svetlana Khorkina – 20 medals at World Championships in women’s artistic gymnastics. The team medal for the US women became Biles’s 21st...
At the 2018 Worlds, the Russian team lost to the Chinese by only 0.049. This is less than even the lowest possible deduction on a skill. The mistake that cost the team the medal could have come from any of the gymnasts. Yet...
2018 was difficult for the Ukrainian men’s team. With Oleg Verniaiev, Yevgen Yudenkov, and Petro Pakhniuk injured most of the year, the team without Yudenkov and Verniaiev and with Pakhniuk only doing three events placed...
In 2013, when Azerbaijan started building its artistic gymnastics program, they managed to recruit quite a few gymnasts, mainly from Russia and Ukraine. Marina Nekrasova was not one of their top recruits on the women’s side...