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Alla Sosnitskaya - back to training
Moscow's Alla Sosnitskaya gives us the latest information on her preparations for Worlds this autumn. Doctors have now cleared Alla to train at full capacity after her mid-April foot injury, but she...
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Russia Cup will take place in Penza, says Valentina Rodionenko
This September's Russia Cup, one of the qualifying events for the World Championships, will take place at the Burtasy School of Gymnastics in Penza. This is a late change from the planned location of...
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Universiade 2015, Gwangju - live streaming
The Russian artistic gymnastics teams are now safely at home in the athletes village at Gwangju, and the competition begins tomorrow. The really good news for us is that we'll be able to watch all the...
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Vote for Aliya Mustafina as June athlete of the month on Sportbox!
Vote for Aliya Mustafina as June Athlete of the Month on Sportbox! Every vote...
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Russia - mixed fortunes in Gwangju
The Russian women won the gold medal today in the team competition at the Universiade in Gwangju, ahead of the Japanese and Korean teams. The picture is Alla Sotnikova's gold medal ... from her...
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Tatiana Nabiyeva: 'I will fight for a ticket to Rio if I do well inPenza'
Contemplating her future - Tatiana NabiyevaExtracts from an interview with Natalia Plekhanov of All Sport - http://www.allsportinfo.ru/index.php?id=94780'If the Russia Cup does not work out I will...
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Elena Produnova - interview
The gymnastics group at VK.com has published an interview with 2000 Olympian, Elena Produnova. Thanks for their permission to provide an edit of it here.People will remember Elena in particular for...
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Russian national teams to compete in Batumi on 24th August.
Daria Spiridinova - impossible to forget. Picture courtesy of RGFAs Russia's young gymnasts prove their mettle at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Tbilisi this week - see RRG's Facebook page and...
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Daria Skrypnik leads Europe's Youth in Tbilisi
Daria Skrypnik became the standout individual gymnast today at the European Youth Olympics, taking a medal in every event - gold in team, all around and bars, bronze on beam and silver on vault and...
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Is gymnastics still artistic?
Such a lot is said about artistry these days - but you don't really see much evidence of it in the gymnastics. There are flashing moments of brilliance that some people enjoy - for example, a gymnast...
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Birthday Champions from St Petersburg- Alexander Detiatin and Elena Davydova
It had somehow escaped my attention that yesterday was the birthday of two Olympic Champions from Moscow, 1980 - Alexander Detiatin and Elena Davydova. Happy Birthday to both of these amazing...
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One thousand posts - five years of RRG
Yesterday, I published the one thousandth post for RRG since it began, almost five years ago, on September 24th 2010. Thanks to you, dear readers, the blog has accumulated 3.7 million page views in...
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RRG Picture of the Day : Svetlana Boguinskaia, Belarus, 1992
This picture of Svetlana, taken in 1992 at the European Championships in Nantes, is one of my all-time favourite gymnastics shots. The name of the photographer is Ewa Bednarska.Every single detail of...
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Elena Shushunova - grace, power, complexity
Elena Shushunova was born on 23 April 1969 in St Petersburg, home of 1980 Olympic Champions Elena Davydova and Alexander Detiatin. The 1985 World and European Champion, and 1988 Olympic Champion was...
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Rusudan Sikharulidze International, Batumi - podium training pictures
Enjoy a photo gallery of the Russian MAG and WAG teams in podium training for the Rusudan Sikharulidze International competition, that will be the first stage of selection for Worlds....
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Rusudan Sikharulidze tournament - partial results
Belyavski and Ignatyev shared the AA gold :-)Here are the results available to date for the Batumi International. As mentioned some time ago, Aliya Mustafina is not scheduled to compete in this event,...
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Picture results of EF, Batumi - Komova wins gold!
Every picture tells a story - no official results from Batumi yet, but the RGF has pictures of the EF awards ceremonies - V - Paseka. UB - Komova. FX - Ablyazin PH - Kuksenkov R - DavytyanMolodyets!
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Emin Garibov - I will compete for Russia, but remember Azerbaijan
In an interview with Inessa Rasskazova, Emin Garibov has confirmed that he is continuing to recover from serious shoulder injury and is preparing to represent Russia at the Rio Olympics.Emin, whose...
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Aliya Mustafina and Elena Shevchenko - Olympic Champions from CSKAMoscow
2012 Olympic Champion Aliya Mustafina took part in an event yesterday to celebrate the successes of various athletes from her home club in Moscow, the Central Army Club. You can see her here with 1988...
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Aliya Mustafina to miss Russia Cup, says Valentina Rodionenko
Photo - TASS Writer - Albert StarodubtsevMoscow, 8 SeptemberValentina Rodionenko said, 'she needs to rest properly after numerous performances in the past years'.'We have decided to release Aliya from...
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