Mustafina 'wants to test herself in the AA'

    Courtesy of vk.comAliya Mustafina plans to try out her skills on all four apparatus in this week's European Championships, says Valentina Rodionenko.  Also going on all four apparatus will be newly crowned Russian Champion, Angelina Melnikova.   Daria...

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Congratulations, Russia!

Russia won today's team final at the European Gymnastics Championships with an impressively consistent performance - not one fall!  Led by the charismatic David Belyavski, the team showed leadership over the entire field, finishing first in every apparatus except rings...

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The State of Gymnastics - 'Soviet' or 'American' style?

Lioudmilla Tourischeva, 1972 Olympic All Around champion in artistic gymnastics, was held up as an example of the ideal Soviet citizen.  Here she coaches one of the Soviet Union's leading gymnasts from the 1980 Olympics, Natalia Shaposhnikova Normal 0 ...

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Who will travel to Berne? A Russian mystery

Aliya Mustafina and team candidate Seda Tutkhalyan - both from MoscowFive days left before the MAG European Championships open in Switzerland, and Russian gymnast Nikita Nagorny is posting videos of himself practicing a full twisting Roche vault - I wonder if he will compete...

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No Paseka for Russia in Berne

Barely two weeks will elapse before the WAG European Championships begin in Berne, Switzerland, and the news we had been fearing has been confirmed : world vault gold medallist Maria Paseka is  off the Russian team while she nurses a back injury.  This leaves Russia significantly weakened for the coming competition, with co-star Viktoria...

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European Championships - junior and senior WAG nominative registrations now available

Find junior and senior nominative registrations for European Gymnastics Championships 2016 here.  Russian teams in the pictures attached.  Remember these can change right up to the day of competiti...

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