Recapping the most essential highlights from Olympic Rhythmic Gymnastics history, from the event's origin and timeline to all the most iconic moments & athletes, a comprehensive list of year-by-year ...

Since the Atlanta 1996 Games when former Soviet countries began competing as individual nations, athletes from Russia and Belarus have twirled, pirouetted and tumbled their way to Olympic dominance in ...

PARIS, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Before striding on to the Olympic rhythmic gymnastics platform to perform her hoop routine, Germany's Margarita Kolosov took a breath, squared her shoulders and flung a small ...

The Russian Artistic Gymnastics Federation is considering appealing Irina Viner’s two-year ban ©Getty Images Viner, who is head of the Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation, has been suspended by the ...

The 19-year-old, who took an all-around silver medal amid three other golds at last year’s World Championships in Izmir, scored 19.000 points to lead the hoop event before a total of 18.833 saw her ...

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"It is necessary to create conditions for the training of specialists, including in cybersports, to provide support measures," Irina Viner emphasized PERM, October 19. /TASS/. The president of ...

Rhythmic gymnastics, traditionally a women-only event, debuted in the Olympics with individual competitions in 1984. The group event was added at the Atlanta 1996 Games. It is now the only all-female ...

The rising star of rhythmic gymnastics is Yana Kudryavtseva, a 15-year-old Russian who is sort of like a very flexible Harlem Globetrotter in a glittery ice skating costume. At the rhythmic world ...