Oleg Verniaiev had a rocky beginning of the season. He underwent surgeries on both legs in the beginning of the year, then went on to compete at the European Championships after very short preparation. Despite far from being at...
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While the Russian team dominated the WAG competition, on the men’s side, we saw similar domination from the Ukrainian team. Ukraine won gold in the team competition and five of the seven available individual golds. Illia...
Legendary Soviet gymnast Liudmila Tourishcheva and her husband, an Olympic champion in track Valeriy Borzov recently visited Minsk to attend the European Games and talked to Sport.tut.by about their careers, life during the...
Coming to the European Games, Petro Pakhniuk planned on fighting for a medal in the all-around final and hoped to qualify to pommel horse and parallel bars finals, even though he knew it would be a tall order with the...
Diana Varinska talked to TSN Prosport about winning two bronze medals at the European Games (one on beam and one in the all-around), her routines and the plans for her gymnastics career. Q: Are you happy with your results in...
Diana Varinska was finally able to win an all-around medal at a major international competition, after being a promising all-arounder for a couple of years but never quite making it. She also added a bronze on beam to her bronze...
Oleg Verniaiev came to the European Games just a few months after having surgeries on both legs and said he was just trying to survive during the qualification. However, he then went on to win silver in the all-around and on...
Petro Pakhniuk came to the European Games as the silver European medalist on parallel bars and upgraded his routine by 0.3 but ended up making mistakes in the qualification and not making the final on this event. He made the...
Oleg Verniaiev competed all six events in qualifications at the European Games, the first time since his surgeries in February. He placed 8th in qualification, with 81.632 and made AA, PH and PB finals, leading the qualification...
Oleg Verniaiev was originally supposed to miss the European Championships because of his injury and, as a result, would have missed the European Games as the Ukrainian MAG did not have any non-nominative spots and had to qualify...