Last month, Oksana Chusovitina opened her 2021 season with a bronze on vault at the Varna World Cup. Chusovitina said in an interview to Bulgarian media, that she recently dealt with an injury but is feeling fine already and...
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Alexey Nemov was on the only Russian MAG team that won Olympic gold back in 1996 in Atlanta. Twenty five years later Russian men have a good chance to repeat this victory, but Nemov is worried that Dalaloyan’s injury might...
Angelina Melnikova talked to Sport24 about first competitions of the year, life at Round Lake, and filming the All Around. Q: How did the first international competition in a long time feel for you? A: I’m thinking...
Igor Radivilov became the European Champion on vault again last month, winning his 11th European medal. His big dream is to win another medal at the Olympics (his first and so far only one was a bronze on vault in 2012) and he...
David Belyavskiy’s main goals at the Russian Championships were to compete in all-around again (his last AA competition was at the 2019 European Games where he won gold) and to try his upgraded routine on rings. As...
Valentina Rodionenko announced that all top Russian gymnasts will compete at the upcoming Russian Championships in Penza on March 10th-14th. In November, almost all the members of the national team skipped the Russian...
When Lihie Raz qualified to the Tokyo Olympics at the 2019 World Championships, it was a surprise for many, including herself, as she told HaAretz: “Of course it was the goal but it was a bit of a surprise because I didn’t...
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...
It is a familiar feeling by now – a gymnastics competition being canceled. Last year, most of the gymnastics competitions worldwide ended up canceled or postponed. The hope was that by 2021, things would start looking...
Kazakhstan’s Nariman Kurbanov started his post-lockdown season with a gold on pommel horse in Szombathely, his best event. He talked to the National Olympic Committee about coping with the lockdown and his plans for the...