Ukrainian team to Worlds

Valeriia Osipova won gold in the all-around at the Ukrainian Championships last week. …

Osipova, Kasianenko, Kozlovska, Diana Savelieva and Yelyzaveta Hubareva are on the nominative roster for Worlds and all five took part in the Ukrainian Championships in Kyiv.

The competition ended a day earlier due to Russian missile strikes on Kyiv. …

– on the last day of the competition, they spent eight hours in a bomb shelter, according to another Ukrainian gymnast Daniela Batrona. The day after, the gymnasts spent five hours in the shelter and had to deal with blackouts as the electricity infrastructure across Ukraine had been damaged by the strikes. …

Ukrainians need visas to enter the UK and the UK Consulate in Kyiv is closed due to the war, so they will need to travel to Poland to get their visas. Since all air travel in Ukraine has been suspended, they will have to go to Warsaw by train with two train changes. They will spend the next 12 days in Poland before flying to Liverpool. …

Straddle Tkachev

Gymnasts should split as much as possible.

G.S. George in his book Championship Gymnastics explains why.

Stylistically, I like a late, fast split.

Mersin World Cup highlights

Ukrainian gymnasts hide in basement

Russians? Are you also hiding your athletes from rockets?”

Mental Health – USA Gymnastics

Smart new program.

Prohibited Substances and Methods

Via email from FIG:

As every year, we would like to draw your attention to the main anti-doping regulations and documentation recently released by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). They will come into force on 1 January 2023.