When Illia Kovtun won five golds and a silver at the junior European Championships in 2020, it was clear that he is is capable of having an absolutely spectacular senior career. However, he was not necessarily expected to start...
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After the Tokyo Olympics where he made all-around and parallel bars finals, Petro Pakhniuk said he really needed rest. He didn’t get much, however, and soon returned to competition in the Bundesliga and then at the World...
Irina Nadiuk was preparing Nazar Chepurnyi for the Tokyo Olympics – Ukraine’s star at the 2019 Junior Worlds turned senior in 2020, right in time for Tokyo. However, with the Games’ postponement and...
Illia Kovtun wasn’t supposed to be at the Tokyo Olympics – he’s only 17 years old and will turn 18 after the gymnastics competition at the Olympics will be over. The postponement meant he had a chance to go to...
Oleg Verniaiev finally revealed the reason why he has been suspended for over half a year – he tested positive for meldonium in November. The Gymnastics Ethics Foundation (GEF) gave him a four-year ban which he now plans to...
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...
Illia Kovtun came to his first senior Euros only a few months after winning the all-around at the junior Euros in Mersin. In the absence of Verniaiev (suspended) and Pakhniuk (injured), Kovtun and another new senior Volodymyr...
Gennady Sartynsky, the head coach of Ukrainian MAG, said that Illia Kovtun, the 2020 junior AA European champion, is establishing himself as one of the team’s leaders: “Illia is a very strong gymnast, one of the...
Ukrainian Gymnastics Federation confirmed the rosters for the upcoming European Championships, which does not include Oleg Verniaiev. Verniaiev is still provisionally suspended by the FIG and thus, ineligible to compete at any...
Ukraine’s Vladyslav Hryko has announced on his Instagram that he had knee surgery due to a recent injury. The surgery was to repair the torn ACL and lateral meniscus in his knee. Hryko wrote: “Good morning, my...