Welcoming speech by Alina Kabaeva at the Sky Grace Grand Prix opening ceremony in Minsk

Let's take a look behind the scenes at the tournament and see how Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva and coach Evgeniya Eliseeva helped the gymnast prepare for her performance.

A technically perfect routine is only half the battle; the other half is managing your pre-performance jitters. This is exactly what Alina Kabaeva and coach Irina Gusarova discussed with St. Petersburg’s Mariia Borisova at the second stage of the Cup of the Strongest.

Featuring how the group exercise gymnasts from St. Petersburg and the President of the St. Petersburg Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation, Tatiana Kolesnikova congratulated Alina Kabaeva on her birthday.

Showing genuine emotions!

The result at the tournament in Moscow is in our video. The Russian junior national team topped the list in the all-around!

Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva set the athletes up before going out to the floor.

Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva helped the Academy gymnasts prepare for their coming out to the competition floor and offered tips on what to focus on.

Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva addressed this parting word to the Academy juniors, Yana Zaikina from Volgograd and Ksenia Savinova from Gatchina, before the start of the second stage of the Cup of the Strongest.

Gymnasts from the Zhemchuzhina Gymnastics Center also recorded a video to congratulate Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva.

She presented the gymnasts with a cake. And the girls blew out the candles!

Let’s watch!

Take a look at the video from both experts and athletes.

Take a look at how the little gymnasts did.

Alexandra Borisova and Yana Sakovich from Moscow, Miroslava Monina from Penza, and Alesya Naifonova from Vladikavkaz spoke about the cities' contributions to the Victory and how the memory of the heroic past is preserved today.

Diana Kotlovskaya and Karolina Pakhtusova from St. Petersburg, Evelina Tandalova from the Tyumen Region, Varvara Toporova from the Republic of Kalmykia, and Alisa Shunina and Anna Vakulenko from Volgograd spoke about how different cities of the Soviet Union experienced those terrible years.