Dee ihe na-aga n'ihu maka paragraf a - Skalinskaya ruru eru maka ihe omume igwu mmiri abụọ na 2004 Summer Olympics na Athens, site na imebi oge ntinye FINA B-ọkọlọtọ nke 26.50 (50 m freestyle) na 58.00 (100 m freestyle) site na Kazakhstan Open Championship na Almaty. Na 100 m freestyle, Skalinskaya gbara ndị ọzọ na-egwu mmiri asaa na okpomọkụ nke abụọ, gụnyere Agnese Ozoliņa nke Latvia. Ọ gbara ọsọ gaa n'ọnọdụ nke abụọ na nke iri anọ na otu n'ozuzu site na ihe karịrị otu sekọnd n'azụ onye mmeri Vanessa García nke Puerto Rico na 58.56. Na 50 m freestyle
, Skalinskaya tinyere iri atọ na itoolu n'ozuzu na ụbọchị ikpeazụ nke preliminaries. Na-egwu mmiri na okpomọkụ isii, o meriri Shikha Tandon nke India iji were ebe nke ise site na 0.04 nke abụọ, n'èzí oge ntinye ya nke 27.04.