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...
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Valentina Rodionenko announced to Russian MAG and WAG Worlds teams to the media today. She said that on the men’s side, all of the Tokyo Olympians, except for Vladislav Poliashov, will skip the competition. On the...
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...
Maria Paseka hoped to make Tokyo 2020 her third Olympics and, perhaps, finally accomplish her dream of winning an Olympic gold. She came back after spinal surgery to win gold on vault at the 2019 European Championships but her...
In 2016, Angelina Melnikova was the youngest gymnast on the Russian team and dealing with an injury that severely limited her ability to compete. As a result, she was not able to qualify to the all-around final. In 2021, she came...
The Soviet Union dominated women’s artistic gymnastics and its last team – the Unified Team – won team gold in 1992. But after the breakdown, Russian women were never able to get that coveted gold medal, even...
On the first day of the event finals, Lilia Akhaimova won gold on vault and Vladislava Urazova – on uneven bars. For Akhaimova, this victory was especially significant. Vault and floor are the two events that can get her...
The Russian Cup serves as one of the selection stages for the Tokyo Olympics. The main contenders for the Olympic teams were more or less known in advance and Russia even sent the projected teams to Euros to test them (with...
This week, Russian gymnasts are competing at the Russian Cup in Novosibirsk. The competition is a part of the selection process for the Olympics, although the teams will not be named until July and several internal selections...
Both Russian men and women left the European Championships with a collection of medals of different colors. Valentina Rodionenko told MatchTV she was very happy with the results despite some mistakes from the gymnasts and talked...