Irina Alexeeva spent several years in the citizenship limbo – she lived and trained in the US and was among the top US juniors but couldn’t get onto the national team or get international assignments due to not having...
Tag - Worlds 2018
Valentina Rodionenko praised the Russian team after they won gold in the team final at the European Championships and said to the media that the girls solidified their chances for a spot on the Worlds team: “Today, our...
Azerbaijan’s WAG team only includes four senior gymnasts and any injury can be devastating for the team. This year at the European Championships, Azerbaijan had the worst luck with injuries. Only three gymnasts came to...
Belgium qualified in the third place to the team final at Euros, a very impressive feat considering that they brought only four gymnasts to Glasgow and Senna Deriks couldn’t do leg events because of a nagging injury...
Lithuania’s Agata Vostruchovaite hoped to show her new routines at the European Championships but got a knee injury on vault at her very first practice in Glasgow. In the end, she had to scratch all events except for...
For Jonna Adlerteg, this year’s Euros are a very important competition since she’s coming back from an injury and trying to get the feel of the field again and see how her bars stack up against the competition...
Marta Pihan-Kulesza: I didn’t plan to come back, I just wanted to see if I could still do gymnastics
Today was the first international competition for the Polish star Marta Pihan-Kulesza since she gave birth to her baby daughter. We talked to Ms. Pihan-Kulesza after the competition about her experience today, her reasons to come...
Valentina Rodionenko talked to Team Russia website about the preparation of the senior team for the European Championships. She also talked about the team selection for Worlds and it seems that currently the five people competing...
Valentina Rodionenko gave an interview to Sergei Smyshlyaev from RIA Novosti with updates on the national team gymnasts, the preparation for Euros and the plans for Worlds. Q: The women’s team has arrived in Glasgow for the...
While Russian WAG supplied us with a lot of drama last week, when Viktoria Komova did not make the team after not performing well enough at the verification and voiced her unhappiness about it, Russian MAG decided to avoid all...