Valentina Rodionenko talked to R-Sport about the Voronin Cup’s results and her thoughts on Nagornyy, Komova and Melnikova: “About the guys: Nikita Nagornyy looked good and all of his routines had good difficulty...
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Valentina Rodionenko told to R-Sport that Maria Paseka’s back surgery went successfully: “Looks like everything’s fine, everything’s normal. So far the news is good but it’s hard to say anything...
Valentina Rodionenko talked to R-Sport about the possible format for the junior World championships in artistic gymnastics. The first championships will take place in 2019, probably in Hungary which hosted this year’s...
Maria Paseka has been suffering from back pain for a while and even said at the beginning of this year that she might retire from gymnastics because of the pain. However, she went on training and competing and even winning her...
Valeri Liukin gave an interview to TASS after the Worlds in Montreal. The interview was in Russian and following is the English translation: Q: The head coach of the Russian [WAG] team Valentina Rodionenko considers you the most...
The next national team training camp at the Round Lake will start on the 18th of October. Valentina Rodionenko told TASS that both Aliya Mustafina and Viktoria Komova will participate in the camp. Mustafina even decided to cancel...
Andrei Rodionenko followed the comments on multiple issues at Worlds made by Valentina Rodionenko with his own critique of the organizing committee: “There’s never been such a number of injuries as during these...
Elena Eremina who won the silver medal in the bars final in Montreal said she hopes her lucky streak continues and she will win gold in the beam final: “I hope that tomorrow there will be gold, I’ll try hard [laughs]...
The World Championships which were dubbed by some fans “The Hunger Games” allegedly actually kept the gymnasts hungry and thirsty – of course, in addition to the fact that there were countless injuries, blinding...
Last night, Maria Paseka became the two-time World champion on vault. She is the second Russian woman to do that after Elena Zamolodchikova who won gold in 1999 and 2002. Paseka’s win was somewhat controversial as her form...