"I expect plenty of new little stars!" Chief Judge Elena Bogatova talks about the Sky Grace tournament

Elena Bogatova is the Chief Judge of the Sky Grace Tournament for the Volga Federal District in Kazan and the coach of the Chelyabinsk Region’s team.

The professional shared her expectations from the competition:

"This is a very strong district; gymnasts of Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Ulyanovsk and Samara are always miraculous. The girls are still rather young; this is a difficult program. These children perform with the ribbon and the ribbon is a very nice-looking tricky apparatus, so we will speak after the competition about the favorites."

Elena also highlighted specific features of the Sky Grace rules:

"The rules are very interesting. They are aligned with the international ones to the maximal degree possible but they are more difficult in some aspects. For example, there are more requirements to clean performance for the technique; one can do the so-called decoration, some interesting things with the apparatus in artistry, in steps. This is the first competition under new rules and therefore I expect a lot from them and that many new little stars appear across entire Russia and not merely in the Volga District."