Andrei Rodionenco: "2016 Olympics is the main goal for us"

Russian head coach Andrei Rodionenco stated in a telephonic interview taken by R-Sport that the Russian Gymnastic Federation main goal for the gymnasts is the 2016 Olympics.  "Medals tournament there are nice and good but our main goal are the Olympics. By the second half of the 2015 we should be ready for it. Then we will know the gymnasts who are worthy based on their performances. So now we need to treat injuries but in the same time to compete for winning medals" ...

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Anna Dementyeva presenting Sochi Olympic medal in Samara.

        In a ceremony that took place on December the 6th, the people of Samara had the opportunity to admire the medals that will be awarded in the Winter Olympic games in Sochi.          Evgenia Sazarova the representative of the jewellery company that manufactured the awarding medals stated that "Russia is the first country in the world which gave to people the opportunity to see the medals before...

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Tatiana Nabieva has confirmed her retirement

Sad news comes from Russia these days, since Tatiana Nabieva, member of the Russia National Team has confirmed her retirement. The news was brought by Alan Owen from Tatiana herself. Alan is the admin of Tatiana official fan page on Facebook and also admin of her official site.  Tatiana will retire from competitive gymnastics, but she will not say goodbye to gymnastics since she had declare her intentions of becoming a coach.  As...

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Aliya Mustafina won the "Silver Doe"

            During the awarding ceremony of the best athletes and coaches of 2013 organised by the Russian Ministry of Sports and the Federation of Sports Journalists of Russia, gymnast Aliya Mustafina won the "Silver Doe" for her sport performances this year. Along with her other athletes were awarded with the same title Natalia Bolshakov (rowing, Paralympic sport), Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov (figure...

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Aliya Mustafina nominee for the athlete of the year award

         Russian news paper rsport.ru informs us that the Russian Ministry of Sport has announced the nominee for the sports national awards for the 2012-2013 season.          Gymnastics is represented by Aliya Mustafina who is nominee as the best female athlete along with the athlete Yelena Isinbayeva, the skater Tatiana Volosozhar, snowboarder Ekaterina Tudegesheva and swimmer Yuliya Efimova.   ...

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Anna Rodionova "I like everything on Round Lake"

      During her latest interview, Russian national member Anna Rodionova spoke about the conditions on Round Lake, her performance on Antwerp World Championship and her wishes for 2014.          Rodionova told sportbox.ru that "I like everything on Round Lake. The conditions of living and working there are wonderful. Therefore, every training is fun."        Despite being Russia youngest...

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Tatina Nabieva won the Tournoi International du Pas de Calais (images)

    Tatiana Nabieva won the individual competition, while on the team competition she and her team mate placed second right after France. As we managed to find out the competition was held on 12 and 13th of December in Calais, France       Here are some podium pics from the competition. We will update you as soon as we will have more details  Picture taken from VK - Russian Gymnastics community  Picture...

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