This week has been a rollercoaster for the fans of Nikolai Kuksenkov. First, Kuksenkov abruptly left Penza the day of podium training for the Russian Championships without explaining what happened. This spurred rumors about his...
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This week, Elena Eremina competed for the first time in more than a year. She had back surgery last winter and spent the year healing and recovering. At the moment, she is competing with very downgraded routines and is not likely...
Angelina Simakova won the all-around at the Russian Championships despite having trouble on floor on the first day and falling on vault on the second day. Simakova told TASS that the results were not surprising as she expected to...
Angelina Melnikova won silver in the all-around at the Russian Championships but had issues on floor both days. On one hand, this isn’t something new as she frequently lacked stamina on floor in the past. On the other hand...
Aliya Mustafina has competed all-around for the first time in a year at the Russian Championships this week. While she upgraded floor and added a fourth tumbling pass, she only vaulted a FTY. She told TASS that she plans on doing...
Russia wouldn’t be Russia if we didn’t have Valentina Rodionenko making claims about gymnasts and the gymnast contradicting those claims a few days later. Valentina Rodionenko said that Paseka’s first...
Russia has recently been very big on import substitution and supporting the local manufacturers. Some of it was connected to the sanctions when Russians didn’t have much choice but to buy local, but it’s also...
Overall, both Russian MAG and WAG had a quite successful competition in Doha. Both won silver medals in the team finals and gymnasts made multiple individual finals. However, while MAG also picked up five individual medals (four...
For Artur Dalaloyan, this has been a pretty busy competition. He competed on all six events in the qualification and the team final where Russia placed second. Then he won the all-around final. He also won the Longines Prize for...
Aliya Mustafina is a two-time Olympics champion on uneven bars but, strangely, enough, she’s never won gold on this event at Worlds. She won silver on bars at her first Worlds in 2010 and then a bronze in 2013. She is still...