Premise: Yulia Victorovna Makhalina (Russian: Юлия Викторовна Махалина ), also Yulia, (born 23 June 1968) is a Russian ballet dancer. Since 1986, she has been with the Kirov/Mariinsky Ballet where she is a principal dancer. Along with Ulyana Lopatkina, Makhalina is a member of 'the basketball team', a group of Kirov dancers who are characterized for being especially tall and slender.
Hypothesis: the basketball team is unsuccessful in their efforts