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Post by Admin on Jun 22, 2018 18:14:37 GMT
Evgenia Medvedeva is ready for the Next Chapter – Exclusive Interview: Enjoy this exclusive interview with PyeongChang 2018 silver medalist Evgenia Medvedeva! Want to see more Figure Skating from PyeongChang 2018.
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Post by Admin on Jul 2, 2018 18:53:02 GMT
On the last night before the departure of Evgenia Medvedeva to Canada, RIA Novosti special correspondent Elena Vaitsekhovskaya talked with the two-time world champion and vice-champion of the Olympic Games about her future, found out if she was afraid to lose why she chose to mentor Brian Orser without hesitation and think about , while it flies with ice. We are sitting with Medvedeva at the pond two steps away from her native ice rink. It seems that everything has to leisurely communication, but this is an illusion. A few hours later the figure skater had an airplane to Frankfurt, then - to Toronto, then ... - Zhenya, did you even have an apartment to look after? - Oh sure. Chose on the Internet. How can I fly to an unfamiliar country without housing? - That is, at the airport you will meet the owner with a sign and keys? - No, I will be met with Jason Brown. He will meet us with his mother and take us to our new home. And since the 18th I already have a detailed training plan. - You have been performing in quite a large number of competitions for almost three years, not losing anyone. Now, in fact, starting a career from scratch: a new coach, new life circumstances, there is no clarity, how quickly it will be possible to adapt and what the result may be. Are you worried about the possible defeats? - You know, I'm by nature a human realist. I will be destroyed about my result only when I understand that I could have done better, but I did not do it. I can admit to myself in some not very pleasant things. If I understand that yes, this is my limit and for more I just can not at the moment, then I also admit that I took my place - the one that is right for me. Now I clearly understand that for me a completely new life begins. I have never lived in another country before, I have never trained with foreign specialists, I have never eaten unusual food for more than two or three weeks. That is, everything changes completely. Absolutely new sheet.
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Post by Admin on Jul 4, 2018 18:31:55 GMT
- It scares you? - No. I look forward to it with impatience. Now, to be honest, I do not think at all that I can lose someone. I'm trying to look a few years in advance. First, I want to stay healthy. This is my main goal. Just need to try to make sure that this goal does not interfere with the result, find the right balance. In the load, in the diet, in the mental attitude, in the physical state. - Your whole life before the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang was limited to the skating rink. You either trained, or slept, or prepared for training. - So it was! Throughout the years that I skate. - Now, nevertheless, it is obvious that you have released yourself internally. You have free time, you have an opportunity to try a completely different life, in which there is not much figure skating, at least because you broke up with the coach and lost the opportunity to come to the rink every day. How do you perceive this "other" life? "I'm not that I let myself go." It's more correct to say that I opened my eyes and just looked around. Yes, I had a goal - the Olympics. I went to this, aimed only at speaking at the Games, I did not look at anything any more. I actually had no friends, there were no interests, despite the fact that I consider myself a fairly versatile person. There were no new acquaintances, I simply did not support them because of lack of time, and sometimes desire. There were only workouts. But, apparently, inside there was some growth. In the winter when I was injured and could not skate, I suddenly caught myself thinking: do I really finish with the sport, I will remain without friends, without any kind of classes and skills, without a personal life - without everything? And as soon as I opened my eyes after the Olympics, life itself flowed not so much as to another channel, but simply became much more voluminous, as if from a stream turned into a river. I had friends, a lot of interests, including prerequisites for the future profession, which I might like, but maybe 150 times still will change.
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Post by Admin on Jul 6, 2018 18:57:52 GMT
- Will you be able to voluntarily give up this life? Twist yourself, shove it in the old framework and go again to the goal? And do you want to? - I want to want it. I think that I will be ready to leave absolutely everything for the sake of results. The main thing is to be realistic. Do not do anything to the detriment of yourself, your family. I very often think that my mother and grandmother largely sacrificed their lives in order to enable me to develop like a figure skater. If suddenly I feel that I do not live up to their expectations ... I do not want to feel it. - That is, the feeling of guilt towards your relatives somewhere in the depths of your soul sometimes still arises? - Rarely. My parents, too, are realists and understand that the most important thing in life is to continue working. No result, then we work further. Is there a result? Excellent. So, we also work further. Now, if for some reason I do not perform those duties that I should, then a feeling of guilt arises. - How quickly did you manage to recover after the Olympic Games? - It was a long process. My body and brain are arranged so that I recover very quickly after any stresses. Both mentally and physically. But, after the Olympics, everything was very long. In fact, only now I can say that mentally recovered completely. - I once talked with Amina Zaripova, the trainer of the Olympic champion gymnast Rita Mamun. And she confessed to me that after her own Olympics, where she took fourth place, she wanted to commit suicide - she believed that she really ended her life. - I am a cheerful person, so I never thought about suicide. But there was a feeling of such emptiness, as if life really ended. I think that now I have become more open to the world and therefore also. I just said to myself: I'm only 18 years old, and I will never allow my life to depend on whether I won or lost. This will never happen. And besides, I realized something else: if you have any spare ways and spare moves, you are always much more confident and quieter you go to your goal. And most likely it will be achieved. Because you understand perfectly well: if something suddenly does not work, you can always go the other way. It's scary, when the track is yours alone and it, besides, is absolutely not beaten. If suddenly it breaks, it's real like the end of life. I can say that I now have friends, have time for a family, I'm ready to learn, to learn languages. In general, life is just beginning.
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Post by Admin on Jul 17, 2018 19:42:54 GMT
Finally Evgenia Medvedeva 's jump is back 😍😭 and amazing yuzuru's 3A jump 👏😍 I'm so worried about Zhenya, I hope she take rest more, stay strong and keep healthy #GoZhenya 💪 #FaOI2018 #FaOI
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