This year was quite successful for Dmitrii Lankin – he made the team for European and World Championships for the first time and won gold and silver in the team finals respectively. On those teams, he competed on floor...
Tag - Tokyo 2020
Valeri Alfosov, the head coach of the Russian national team, gave an interview to R-Sport. He talked about the challenges of selecting a four-person team for the Olympics, about the team strategy and about coaching the gymnasts...
While some gymnasts prefer to take it slowly coming back from an injury, Oleg Verniaiev is running at full steam. He’s been competing almost every week since the middle of September and, despite getting additional injuries...
In Doha, Artur Dalaloyan became the first World AA champion from Russia since 1999. Back then, Nikolai Kryukov won the title. Kryukov later became a coach and is currently coaching the junior national team, so he coached...
Artur Dalaloyan is enjoying his newfound fame in Russia after not only winning the first MAG AA gold for Russia since 1999 but also adding a whole stack of medals to that gold. He gave this interview to R-Sport the next day after...
Translated from Portuguese by Anastasia Stakheeva After eight years of absence Jade Barbosa, a two-times Worlds medalist, reappeared in Doha and became the 15th in the women’s all-around. A 27-year-old demonstrated that she had...
Oksana Chusovitina has won nine World medals on vault, with her first in 1991 when she still represented USSR and her last one exactly 20 years later in 2011 when she represented Germany. Now she hopes to win another one in 2019...
Aliya Mustafina is a two-time Olympics champion on uneven bars but, strangely, enough, she’s never won gold on this event at Worlds. She won silver on bars at her first Worlds in 2010 and then a bronze in 2013. She is still...
While the women’s team final was a bit nervy today with all teams making mistakes and Russia having to count a fall, the medal podium ended up as expected. USA won by about 9 points and the question was only by how many...
Yesterday, during the team final, the difference between the gold and silver was just 0.05 which is less than any possible deduction on any event. Both Russians and Chinese had their share of mistakes in the final and this 0.05...