The Olympic champion reviewed the hoop routine run-through of Yana Zaikina from Volgograd and suggested adding this element to it.
Yana is a European champion and a Russian Junior Championship silver medalist. The gymnast is a member of the main national team roster, lives and trains at the Alina Kabaeva Sky Grace Rhythmic Gymnastics Academy. Her coaches are Evgenia Eliseeva and Olga Minigalina, and Elena Egorova is the choreographer.
Olga Minigalina is the head coach of the Sirius Federal Territory team. Together with Evgenia Eliseeva, she trains top-ranked gymnasts of the Russian national team — Yana Zaikina from Volgograd and Ksenia Savinova from Gatchina, who also represent the Sirius Federal Territory.
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