We lost two sports but we did not get anyone in. This has created a lot of concerns and worries.

I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day.

Today I have 35 people who work in the club and associated businesses.

She knows the sport. She can talk to him, explain our position and find out why he is thinking like that.

It is not enough to be strong, you must work with your mind and be a clever person who can calculate. It’s like having a small computer in your head.

We started with that, basically to help kids, and then we created a pole vault school, which is part of the club and exists to this day. The club and school exist.

And, of course, method is very important as is a high-quality specialist (trainer) working with you to keep you going in the right direction for your improvement and to help create results.

My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club.

What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything.

Even now I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.

My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region.

You must have the ability, if I may say so, to use such a high grip. You must have perfect technique. Then you can move to a higher grip.

I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want.

Of course, the psychological part, the tactics, is very important.

We would like to have the normal procedures as at previous games. We hope and expect everything will be agreed before Turin.

You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport – six to seven hours daily.

I began with track and field because this is what I know.

Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can’t take a crazy risk.

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.

People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!

She’s still young and will grow and gain in experience.

I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches.

Sports life is very short.

I was just trying to help out. It was unexpected and a decision had to be made quickly.

I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.

The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen.

She’s a personality, not only for sports. She is very intelligent, and she’s a star outside of sports.

I think about retiring from the sport.

The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved.

She proved she is a great athlete in the way she performed today and in the way she keeps breaking records.

I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.

The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a...