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...

The international gymnastics world looks early April especially to Russia:
In the city of Pensa will held the 2016 Russian Championships in Men's Artistic Gymnastics (March 31 - April 03). In the Burtasy Sports Palace will follow one week after the Women's National championships. Overall, 340 active competitors are expected from all Russian districts, elite gymnasts, but also juniors. With tension you look at the comeback of two-time European champion Emin Garibov (2012-13), who had announced his comeback after...