Valentina Rodionenko opted not to attend the 2021 World Championships with the team and go on vacation instead. However, she follows the competition and said she expected Angelina Melnikova to do well: “Everything went...
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Dmitri Lankin was put on the Russian Worlds team to replace injured Mukhammadzhon Iakubov. Lankin missed most of the 2021 season due to an injury but has recovered from his surgery and was ready to compete at Worlds. However...
Russian senior national team is already gathering at Round Lake for the next camp but those who attended the Olympics were given a break and are only expected to go back on August 22nd. This camp will be the first in preparation...
David Belyavskiy qualified to two individual finals at his third Olympic Games – pommel horse and parallel bars. In the pommel horse final, he had a good routine but lost out on bronze by less than 0.1 – Kaya Kazuma...
Angelina Melnikova qualified to three event finals and competed in two of them – vault and bars – today. However, it seems that she was a bit tired after competing for three days last week and she finished 8th on bars...
Many artistic gymnasts skip the opening ceremony at the Olympics because their competition often starts the next day or a couple of days after and participating in the ceremony is tiring. There are some exceptions – for...
The Russian team has arrived in Tokyo and had their first training sessions. Valentina Rodionenko told R-Sport there are certain organizational issues in the village, especially where it comes to transportation and COVID-19...
Russian artistic gymnastics team is flying to Tokyo tonight. Pre-pandemic they had an arrangement to come for a training camp in advance but in the end, the team management decided it was safer to stay at Round Lake and only come...
This week, Russian gymnasts and coaches, along with other Tokyo-bound delegations, visited the Kremlin to meet with the country’s president. The visit confirmed that Russia more or less decided on the teams – Nagorny...
Doha World Cup, the last installment of the Apparatus WC series, was postponed several times and finally scheduled for June 23-26. Some gymnasts will try to grab this last opportunity for Olympic qualification and those who have...