Viktoria Komova abruptly stopped training back in 2018, after she had not been selected for the European Championships team. While she has not officially retired, her last competition was the 2018 Russian Cup. Komova is currently...
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The 2020 Russian Championships were due to take place in March (for WAG) and April (for MAG) and serve as trials for the respective European Championships. Some of the WAG competitors even arrived in Penza a few days before the...
Russian gymnasts were among the last national teams to keep training but they were sent home from the training camp at the beginning of April. Even though the Olympics have been postponed and there aren’t any competitions...
Valentina Rodionenko told the media that the third COVID-19 test of her husband Andrei Rodionenko, the head coach of Russian artistic gymnastics national team came back negative. Rodionenko was one of the four people at the...
Yesterday, the media reported that two members of the Russian national team, the head coach Andrei Rodionenko and a MAG gymnast, Sergei Naidin, tested positive for COVID-19 and, as a results, the ongoing national team training...
Moscow oblast’s governor Andrey Vorobyev asked all residents aged 65 and older to self-isolate at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Russian national artistic gymnastics team has quite a few 65+ coaches and Round Lake...
While sometimes you may get the impression that Russian gymnasts live at their training center all year round, the national team actually has breaks between camps during which they can normally go home. However, as gymnastics...
Russian gymnasts might withdraw from Stuttgart and Birmingham World Cups, according to Valentina Rodionenko. Earlier, Russia opted to withdraw from World Cups in Milwaukee and Tokyo citing coronavirus fears first (and difficult...
Aliya Mustafinaad to withdraw from the European Championships, European Games, and Russian Cup last year due to injuries. In October, she announced she was taking a break from gymnastics to recharge and find motivation again...
Earlier today, it was announced that Russian gymnasts will miss all-around World Cups in Milwaukee and Tokyo due to coronavirus fears. Nikita Nagornyy and Lilia Akhaimova were supposed to compete at the American Cup and Artur...