Group exercise gymnasts of the Volgograd Region team shared impressions from the Sky Grace Cup interregional competition

A gymnast from the Volgograd Region team shared her impressions from the Sky Grace Cup interregional competition:

"The hall is so beautiful, I really like it. It is light and large; it is comfortable to practice there. The public, the support — I am being charged by that. We did the hoops with the balls — almost everything worked out. There was a small loss. The start with the ribbons was rough: something did not work out well but we will work on that and we will then have everything good. We compete with ourselves in the first instance."

She also told us about an unusual mascot of the team — a hammer passing from a composition to composition and traveling with the athletes for many years thus far:

"This mascot is passing to captain’s hands from generation to generation. It is always on a shelf at captain’s home, the motes are flicked gently, everything is as it should be. Its age is fifteen, probably even slightly more. Plenty of old compositions had it. This is a sacred thing."

The Volgograd Region team composed of Anna Belenova, Adelya Kuldyakina, Lera Spitsyna, Violetta Pleshakova, Katya Terekhova and Amina Seidalieva won the Sky Grace Cup for the Southern Federal District among masters of sports.