It’s wonderful to visit to Baku to compete in this city, Moldavian gymnast Yelizaveta Yampolskaya said in an interview with Vestnik Kavkaza after performing in hoop qualifying competitions at the 37th Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championship in Baku.
"I really like performing in Baku. I especially like the Baku arena - it's huge and beautiful. The atmosphere is simply amazing, I have never seen conditions better than in Azerbaijan," she stressed.
"The Azerbaijan Gymnastics Federation does a lot for the development of gymnastics around the world. It costs a lot - not every federation is capable of this. Thanks to this, Azerbaijani gymnastics is at a very high level," Moldavian gymnast noted.
The 37th Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships will last until Sept. 22. The first day of the competitions will see qualifications in an individual program, and gymnasts will perform in the exercises with a hoop and a ball.
The Championships are the qualification competition for the Olympic Games to be held in Tokyo in 2020. So, the first 16 individual gymnasts (max. two gymnasts per country) in the all-around ranking will qualify for the Games.
More than 300 gymnasts from 61 countries will compete for nine sets of medals. “Fairy Tales will come to life" is the motto of the championships.
