Healthy Baby Boy for Kryukov and Kovalyova

Turns out there's more to report about Nikolai Kryukov than his plan to stick around for another year! According to the Novgorod site, the 1999 world champion has just become a father. Kryukov's wife, former Russian national team member Anna Kovalyova (aged 25), gave birth to a healthy boy on December 27. Mother and son are reported to be in good health. Kovalyova was quoted as saying that the boy will be "yet another gymnast in our family." He'll have the genes to go far...


Former Russian national team member Anna Kovalyova, now mother to a healthy baby boy (photo: www.novgorod.ru)