Denis Abliazin won Olympic silver on vault for the third time – he previously placed the same in London and Rio. His silver caused some controversy because his average of two vaults was the same as that of Shin Jea-hwan but...
Tag - Tokyo 2021
Angelina Melnikova added another Olympic medal to her collection today. In the floor final, she tied for bronze with Mai Murakami – the gymnasts had the same difficulty and execution scores. Jade Carey won gold and Vanessa...
David Belyavskiy qualified to two individual finals at his third Olympic Games – pommel horse and parallel bars. In the pommel horse final, he had a good routine but lost out on bronze by less than 0.1 – Kaya Kazuma...
Anastasia Ilyankova’s road to the Olympic silver was full of bumps. She was one of the top Russian juniors in 2016 and was on the gold-winning Russian junior team at Euros. Individually, she placed 10th in the all-around...
Nikita Nagorny qualified to the floor final in second place after Artem Dolgopyat. He didn’t do his full difficulty in the qualification and the big question was whether he’d add his triple pike to the routine which...
Lilia Akhaimova is currently a top vaulter on the Russian team but medaling at the Olympics was probably a tall order – she had lower difficulty than the eventual medalists Rebeca Andrade, Mykayla Skinner and Yeo Seojeong...
Angelina Melnikova qualified to three event finals and competed in two of them – vault and bars – today. However, it seems that she was a bit tired after competing for three days last week and she finished 8th on bars...
Maria Paseka hoped to make Tokyo 2020 her third Olympics and, perhaps, finally accomplish her dream of winning an Olympic gold. She came back after spinal surgery to win gold on vault at the 2019 European Championships but her...
In 2016, Angelina Melnikova was the youngest gymnast on the Russian team and dealing with an injury that severely limited her ability to compete. As a result, she was not able to qualify to the all-around final. In 2021, she came...
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...