Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva came to Tashkent and visited the Gymnastics Palace, which hosted the 2023 World Cup. Now it hosts training sessions in both rhythmic and artistic gymnastics, as well as trampolining.
She spoke with the young gymnasts and saw the participant of the 2021 and 2022 Sky Grace tournament Natalya Usova, and her coach Nasiba Khalikova during training. The Olympic champion showed the athlete the right way to perform a pirouette in an exercise with a ball and improve her jump rope technique. The athlete from Uzbekistan is currently preparing for the Sky Grace-2023 tournament, which will be held in Shanghai.
Alina Kabaeva also met with the multiple world and European champion in trampolining, Belarusian Dmitry Polyarush, who flew to Uzbekistan to teach a master class for the local athletes. Alina Kabaeva and Dmitry Polyarush discussed the situation in modern sports and warmly recalled how they performed together at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, where she represented Russia, and he represented Belarus.
During her trip to Tashkent, Alina Kabaeva plans to discuss further cooperation between the Sky Grace International Clubs Association and the Uzbekistan Gymnastics Federation, as well as the development of sports in general. She already spoke with the director of the Uzbekistan Gymnastics Federation Galina Izralbekova.