Top Indian gymnast Dipa Karmakar made history in the final qualifier of the Olympic Test Event in Rio de Janeiro in April 17 as she produced a strong show, becoming the first ever Indian to qualify for the Olympics in gymnastics.
The 22-year-old could not clinch an Olympic berth in the World Championships in November last year in Glasgow as she finished outside the podium (fifth place).
Dipa had earlier become the first...
South Essex’s Max Whitlock and Bristol Hawks' Claudia Fragapane have taken the 2016 British all-around titles in front a sold out crowd at the Echo Arena, Liverpool.
<< Max Whitlock performed sensationally to score a personal best of 92.700 (!) to take the title. Having never broken the 92 mark before it is a huge score for Max that would have won both the last Olympic...
Japanese Gymnastics Association (JGA) secretary general Morinari WATANABE has confirmed his intention to stand for the Presidency of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG), it has been announced this week. "Insidethegames" exclusively revealed last October that Watanabe, also a member of the F.I.G. Executive Committee, would enter the race to replace Italian Bruno GRANDI, who is due to step down after 19 years at the helm at the body’s Congress in Tokyo in October. The Japanese is only...
For the 21st edition of the prestigious "International Junior Team Cup 2016" from April 08 - 09 in the German capital Berlin, the name list of the 38 teams from 23 different countries have now been received. Due to the Junior European Championships just a few weeks later in the Swiss Bern, many nations will use this race as a test and further internal qualification for the highlight of the year, like Russia, Ukraine, France, Switzerland and...
European Team champion gymnast Nikolai Kuksenkov has become the latest Russian sportsman to test positive for the banned drug meldonium, local Ukrainian media reported Sunday, April 3. "The sample which Kuksenkov gave for testing on March 15 showed the presence of the traces of meldonium," the Allsport agency quoted Russia's national gymnastics team head coach Valentina Rodionenko as saying. Rodionenko added that the gymnast took meldonium last year, before the drug has been included into the World Anti-Doping Agency...