Lilia Podkopayeva participated in a live Instagram stream organized by XSport.ua. She talked about her love of gymnastics: “The sport was my boyfriend for many years. I came to the gym and was charmed. It was my destiny...
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Ukrainian artistic gymnastics national team gymnasts are quarantined at home like most gymnasts around the world and that might be the only way to force Oleg Verniaiev to take some rest (Verniaiev is notorious for not taking...
Oleg Verniaiev was slated to go to all four of the all-around World Cups in the hopes of winning an additional Olympic spot for Ukraine. He finished second at the American Cup with a fall but will get some unexpected rest now...
When Oleg Verniaiev says he’s going to have a light schedule, it likely means he has just five competitions in two months and not ten. Despite having two surgeries in the beginning of the year, Verniaiev was able to come...
Despite being an Olympic silver medalist and multiple European winner and medalist in the all-around, Oleg Verniaiev had never won an all-around medal at the World Championships until last night. Verniaiev qualified to the...
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...
Ukrainian women’s team is on the rise and they have been collecting medals all season. At the European Championships, both Diana Varinska and Anastasia Bachynska finished in the top 10 in the all-around. At teh European...
Petro Pakhniuk has been having quite a good season so far, winning silver on parallel bars at the European Championships and bronze on floor at the European Games. In 2016, he represented Azerbaijan at the Olympic Games in Rio...
At the World Championships, Oleg Verniaiev hopes to help the Ukrainian men’s team qualify to the Olympics. So, he’s going to give it his all despite having two surgeries earlier this year and not quite being...
The Open Israeli Championships continued on Saturday with the men’s competition. In addition to World and European medalists from Israel, Alexander Shatilov, Artem Dolgopyat and Andrey Medvedev, several foreign gymnasts...