The new junior Russian champion tells the secret of hers victories this season and share the future aspirations. Polina Tsurskaya won the junior championship of Russia in confident style and won the right to go to the Youth Olympics and the World Junior Championships. This season, the student of Eteri Tutberidze won the all starts her age category and only on the adult championship of Russia became the fourth, but still ahead of the two Olympic champions and Adelina Sotnikova, Yulia Lipnitskaya and world champion Elizaveta Tuktamysheva.
- Pauline, you have two programs to execute. Not Evgenia Medvedeva of your friend in the group Eteri Bonner Tutberidze accidentally absentia to compete?
- When I moved to Moscow not realize how much capital the athletes consistently perform clean programs at almost all competitions. For me it was simply a mystery. But after six months of training with Eteri Georgievna I felt it myself. The first season has been failures, but in any case, is not it, at that time, when I was riding in Omsk. The next season, added stability. And this, I think, has managed to add even more. Jumping is not lost, perhaps they are better. Glide became more powerful, I myself grew up. The consciousness has changed. And over the rotations should be, of course, work.
- The secret, it turns out, is simple - hard work?
- Yes. The situation in our group spurs. Many famous athletes, you pull them, you want to achieve the same success. Eugene Medvedev, of course, at the moment is incredibly stable person. And when you program broken, and Eugene rolls clean, thinks: Well, it can, and you know that you can. Why now did not happen? I rolled, and then get better.
- You mean the distribution of programs for training?
- Yes. Every day we have a short program or any alternate. In the evening training.
- Intense schedule, it turns out.
- We used to.
- Simple reader're thinking: so, a 14-year-old girl holding two training sessions a day, morning and evening, and weekend something she has?
- One output is, but I have this day go to school at 8 am. At about 4 days to return, and, of course, special forces already present. Lying on a sofa, well in advance or come to an agreement to take a walk with your friends, then you go. At the competition schedule quieter, and then they usually have a couple days off. For them, you gain strength.
- This championship nervous tension was the most difficult among all the starts of the season?
- I will not say that it was very difficult. Before the short program was a little excitement. And before any was not nervous until the moment when the girl came out on the ice in front of me, I started to skate. Then came the excitement. I somehow did not have awareness that now need to roll proizvolku, I was beginning to strain a bit, climbed thought: Well, my head nesobrannost, I can make a mistake. But nothing happened.
- It was necessary to help the coach or their own managed to bring himself in the correct state?
- Sergey Viktorovich Dudakov said how was the mood like? I said as long as I do not feel that now for the free program. He laughed, and then helped me set up, he said I needed a clean program, you need to win, to be selected at the Junior Olympics and the world championship.
- The words of the coach are important to you before going on the ice? Oleg Vasiliev said that it may be half the battle.
- Customizable I myself, and when I coach something to say, I listen and calm down. I support is very important, it is important to know that the coach believes in me, and I feel better.
- Speaking of the Youth Olympic Games, in which you have to act, when the word that comes to mind?
- Olympic Games - an unusual competition. I guess for me it will be the most important tournament. I want him very well prepared. I think I will have a chance to win, if I skated with confidence and as clean as I can.
- Of all the Olympic Games in your life that you watched as a spectator, what made the greatest impression?
- Of course, very memorable Olympic Games in Sochi. It was held in the home country, there appeared Yulia Lipnitskaya with whom I rode in a group of Eteri G., my coach. Of course, it's an honor to train in a group, with such a coach.
- You watched the Olympics in Sochi and on television from Moscow?
- No, I did not go to Sochi, it was a season in which it was necessary to be selected on the junior Grand Prix, and it was important to perform well.
- After the Junior Olympics, there will still be the Junior World Championships, to which you go, and behind have plenty of important competitions: the stages of the Grand Prix final, adult Russian Championship, the junior national championship. Force enough?
- Fears that is not enough, no. You have two important starts, they need to collected. And I think it's in my power - to prove that I can win there. And all those who surround me, help me with this.