Paris 2024 Olympics - Rhythmic Gymnastics - Individual All-Around Final - Porte de La Chapelle Arena, Paris, France - August 09, 2024. Margarita Kolosov of Germany performs with hoop.

Rising German star Darja Varfolomeev was unstoppable last summer in Spain, winning five individual gold medals at the 2023 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships – a complete sweep of the event.

Varfolomeev Darja, of Germany, performs clubs exercise in the rhythmic gymnastics individuals all-round final at La Chapelle Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, in Paris, France.

U.S. rhythmic gymnastics program director Caroline Hunt did not think the absence of the Russians and Belarusians would mean a drop in quality when the battle for the two gold medals begins at the ...

Rhythmic gymnastics at the 2024 Paris Olympics will soon get underway and the individual podium promises to be historic, as it will feature no Russian or Belarusian gymnasts, and there is no clear ...

This week, the head of Russian national rhythmic gymnastics team, Irina Viner, stepped down and was replaced by Alina Kabaeva. The only person who responded with appropriate shock to this news when I ...

[1/3]Paris 2024 Olympics - Rhythmic Gymnastics - Individual All-Around Final - Porte de La Chapelle Arena, Paris, France - August 09, 2024. Darja Varfolomeev of Germany performs with the ribbon.

They also were ordered to return the medals they won at the rhythmic gymnastics world championships, in Madrid, Spain, in October 2001. Kabaeva, now 19, was overall world champion while Tchachina ...

Varfolomeev Darja, of Germany, performs clubs exercise in the rhythmic gymnastics individuals all-round final at La Chapelle Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, in Paris, France.