A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF ALINA KABAEVA

Alina Kabaeva is a gymnast. She was born in Tashkent (Uzbekistán), in 1983. Her nickname is Lina. 

She began to practise rhytmic gymnastics when she was three years old. 

Her coach took Alina and her family to Moscow, in Russia. There, she learnt a lot.

In 1997, she succeded like a professional gymnast. She won a lot of first medals in many championships. Only one time she made a serious mistake, the circle went out of the tapestry. For this reason, she lost the Gold, she won the second place.

In 2001, Alina participed in the Madrid championship, the medical control said that Alina was doping. She won the Gold but she lost it because she was eliminated. The I.G.F (Internacional Gymnastics Federation) told her, that she couldn't compete for 2 years.

For a long time, she won height, and finally she decided to pay the I.G.F a lot of money, and then she could compete again.

Alina went to the European championship in Granada, and she won the Gold. After she went to world championship in Budapest, and she got a good position to go to the Olympic Games.