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...

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...