Aliya Mustafina is a two-time Olympics champion on uneven bars but, strangely, enough, she’s never won gold on this event at Worlds. She won silver on bars at her first Worlds in 2010 and then a bronze in 2013. She is still...
Tag - Worlds 2018
Yesterday, Irina Alexeeva competed in the all-around final as the second Russian all-arounder in addition to Angelina Melnikova. Alexeeva’s difficulty doesn’t yet allow how to fight for AA medals at major competitions...
When a Russian gymnast misses out on a medal by less than 0.1, you just know Valentina Rodionenko will have things to say. And she did. Rodionenko claimed that the judging was not objective and the head judge on beam has been...
Angelina Melnikova has struggled with consistency throughout last year and did not have a great performance at her first World Championships in Montreal. However, this year she has been extremely consistent and it looked like she...
Translation from Chinese by Daniel Rothwell In an interview with CCTV following qualifications at the 2018 World Championships, the Chinese women’s team and head coach, Qiao Liang (also known as Chow) gave their thoughts on...
For Nikita Nagornyy, today’s final was a redemption for both the team final in which Russia lost to China by 0.05 and the last year’s AA final in which Nagornyy finished 10th despite having the highest...
Artur Dalaloyan won the first Worlds AA medal for Russia in nine years (Yuri Ryazanov won bronze in 2009) and the first gold in 19 years (Nikolai Kryukov was the World AA champion in 1999). Nikita Nagornyy won the bronze medal...
While it was expected of Russian women’s team to take silver in the team final at Worlds and they did just that, Valentina Rodionenko is not happy with the results because the U. S. team won by almost 9 points. She said to...
Liliia Akhaimova only made the Russian national team at 18 years old. She grew up in Vladivostok, the city on the Pacific coast of Russia and moved to St Petersburg as a teenager. While Vladivostok is a big city, their...
In less than a year, WOGA’s Irina Alexeeva went from not being on any national team to being a silver World medalist and a European champion. She proved she can hit when it counts and Russia sorely needed someone with her...