UPDATE: TG Saar has officially announced on April 5th they are ending the collaboration with Nikita Nagorny due to his statements and public actions in connection with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russian and Belarusian...
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Valentina Rodionenko told Russian media that the FIG is recommending a one-year disqualification for Ivan Kuliak and the coaches responsible for him at the competition – head of the delegation Valentina Rodionenko and the...
on February 28th, the IOC asked international sporting federations to ban Russia and Belarus in response to the two countries invading Ukraine. Many federations responded swiftly and banned Russian and Belarus on the same day or...
Russian MAG national team arrived at Round Lake yesterday for the second training camp of the year. The gold-winning Tokyo team reunited for the first time at the previous camp that ended on January 22nd and all four came to the...
Maria Kharenkova joined the coaching staff of the Russian national team as the beam coach for the junior team. She will work alongside her former teammates Aliya Mustafina (junior team’s head coach) and Ksenia Afanasyeva...
Valentina Rodionenko has announced today that the 2022 WAG and MAG Russian Championships will take place in April in Kazan. According to her, the WAG and MAG competitions will be separate and will include junior competitions to...
Angelina Melnikova thought about taking a long break already after the Olympics but ended up extending her season to compete at the World Championships. Now, she is finally taking a proper break for the first time in her senior...
Angelina Melnikova is a two-time European medalist on vault and made the final on this event at the Tokyo Olympics. However, coming to Kitakyushu, she had no plans of doing two vaults in the qualification and didn’t even...
At his first senior World Championships, Grigori Klimentev was the only Russian MAG gymnast to qualify to an event final. After Nikita Ignatyev’s 17th place in the all-around final, Klimentev stayed the only medal hope for...
Valentina Rodionenko commented on Angelina Melnikova’s Worlds all-around gold to the media: “Gelya did a great job! Way to go, she got herself together, she was under a heavy strain, considering the little injuries...