Academy student Kristina Voitenko from Novosibirsk told us how the advice of Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva helped her successfully perform at the Sky Grace-2023 tournament in Beijing.
"Alina Kabaeva encouraged me, told me to perform for fun and do what we’ve accumulated in training. She gave us notes and we made adjustments," she said.
Kristina also shared her impressions of the tournament and evaluated her performance.
"The impressions were positive. It was quite exciting to represent the Alina Kabaeva Academy. The tournament itself and the atmosphere were at the highest level. Of course, there were quite a lot of mistakes that needed to be worked on. We worked very hard on the object and the clean elements. Since we have already performed at the "Games of the Countries" with a jump rope, working with it is about the same as working with the other objects," Kristina said.
At the international Sky Grace-2023 tournament, Kristina Voitenko became the best in the exercise with a jump rope in the junior program, and also won silver with hoop and ball and bronze with clubs.