Aliya Mustafina told TASS that she will not compete at the Russian Cup next week and will focus on preparing for the World Championships instead. Mustafina last competed at the Birmingham Cup where she won gold in the all-around...
Tag - Worlds 2019
Oleg Verniaiev had a rocky beginning of the season. He underwent surgeries on both legs in the beginning of the year, then went on to compete at the European Championships after very short preparation. Despite far from being at...
Valentina Rodionenko, a Russian national team coach, has expressed her unhappiness with the progress of Aliya Mustafina and Angelina Melnikova this week. Now, she elaborated that Mustafina’s participation at Worlds will...
Oksana Chusovitina is currently trying to qualify for her 8th Olympic Games. Despite being best known for her vaults, she is training on all four events and hopes to qualify through the all-around at the World Championships in...
Nariman Kurbanov won silver on pommel horse at the Universiade, placing behind the World bronze medalist Lee Chih Kai. He hasn’t had much success international this year, placing outside of the medals at every final he...
Japanese Gymnastics Federation is known for selecting their teams for major competitions a billion years in advance. It is as if they saw Russia and USA with their “we won’t select the team until an hour before the...
19-year-old Akim Mussayev is one of Kazakhstan’s rising stars who has been challenging Milad Karimi for the title of the best all-arounder on the team. In the past couple of months, Mussayev finished first at the...
At the end of last year, Artur Dalaloyan gave a long interview to Dynamo, the official magazine of his sports club. Among many interesting things, he revealed that he was a backup dancer at Junior Eurovision in 2007, he writes...
Dutch gymnast Vera van Pol had to miss the beginning of the 2019 season due to ankle surgery but she has recovered and was allowed the full training load. Van Pol told The Force is Grace that being in the World Championship...
Gennady Sartynsky, the head coach of the Ukrainian MAG team and the personal coach of Oleg Verniaiev, talked to Gymnovosti about Verniaiev’s speedy return to competition and the expectations for the team. Oleg Verniaiev...