The Italian Gymnastics Federation was the last to name its women’s Olympic team, announcing on Monday – the IOC’s deadline for finalizing team submissions – that Alice D’Amato, Asia D’Amato, Martina Maggio, and Giorgia Villa would be the four set to represent Italy in Tokyo, joining Vanessa Ferrari, who had previously won a nominative berth via the apparatus world cup series.

→ The Italian men finished 13^th in qualifications at Worlds 2019 in Stuttgart, missing a team spot...

The 2021 Russian Cup of artistic gymnastics serves as one of the selection stages for the Tokyo Olympics. The main contenders for the Olympic teams were more or less known in advance and Russia even sent the projected teams to Euros to test them (with Kirill Prokopev replacing injured Artur Dalaloyan last minute). In the all-around final on Thursday, June 10, the reigning European champion  Nikita Nagorny won gold, Alexander Kartsev won silver, and Nikita Ignatyev won bronze. David...