Great Britain gymnast Brinn Bevan marked his emotional performance at the Rio Olympic Games by getting a two-foot tattoo of Christ the Redeemer inked across his back. Two years and 32 hours of etching later, Bevan's tattoo is almost complete but the 21-year-old, who will compete in the men's all-around final
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Dominick Cunningham hopes to keep momentum at world championships
Dominick Cunningham fought his way up from the fringes of the Great Britain gymnastics team to win an unexpected men's floor gold medal at the European Championships in Glasgow. Now the Birmingham 23-year-old is determined to continue his promising trajectory at his first World Championships in Doha, and make the rest
Italy’s Giorgia Villa has the nerve to take all-around gold at Youth Olympic Games
Fifteen-year-old wins her nation’s first YOG title in the event after battling nerves Italian gymnast Giorgia Villa and her coach Marco Campodonico had their own competition going on: who was the most nervous. Just minutes before Villa was to perform her floor exercise, her last routine in a nail-biting all-around final competition,
Jessica Pickering shakes off jitters to jump to Youth Olympic trampoline medal
Australian trampolinist dances her way to a silver, while the Chinese dominate with two victories in the men’s and women’s events It was perfect timing when the DJ at the American Pavilion started playing pop star Taylor Swift’s Shake it Off prior to Jessica Pickering’s turn on the trampoline in the
China claim double gold in trampoline at 2018 Youth Olympic Games
China have dominated Trampoline Gymnastics at this summer’s Youth Olympic Games (YOG) Buenos Aires 2018 by winning double gold. Sunday’s action kicked off with the women’s final, as Xinyi Fan carried on from where she left off in qualification. The 16-year-old cruised to the top of the leaderboard from the two preliminary
European Championships 2018: five different nations win gold in men’s gymnastics apparatus finals
The men's European gymnastics championships concluded at The SSE Hydro with six gold medals awarded to five different countries in the apparatus finals. The most successful nation was Russia, with two golds, a silver and two bronze medals. Artur DALALOYAN (RUS) bagged an impressive three medals, to add to his team's
European Championships 2018: Artur Dalaloyan leads Russian charge to top of gymnastics medal table
Russia dominated the gymnastics competition at Glasgow 2018, winning nine medals in total, four of them gold. Artur DALALOYAN (RUS) was the most decorated gymnast, winning three gold medals, in the team event, and on vault and parallel bars. "My favourite medal was the team medal, because everybody in Russian gymnastics worked
European Championships 2018: Russia’s men win third straight team title as Great Britain falter
Russia's men won their third consecutive European team title after two Great Britain athletes fell off their final apparatus, the horizontal bar, having closed the gap between silver and gold to just 1.132 points. After Nikita NAGORNYY (RUS) fell on on floor exercise and made some minor mistakes on pommel horse, the Russians
European Championships 2018: Russia triumphs as Britain’s junior gymnasts let European team title slip through their fingers
European Championships 2018: Russian gymnasts qualify to team final in convincing style ahead of Great Britain
The men's gymnastics qualification competition concluded at The SSE Hydro Arena, with Russia scoring an emphatic 259.427 ahead of Great Britain, who lie second with 252.496. It was a shaky start for Russia on the high bar, with a fall from David BELYAVSKIY, but they rallied with superb exercises on floor. Two