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- Nov 12, 2013
Lipnitskaia, now 16 and one of Russia’s best known sports stars, said in comments on the Russian skating federation website that it was hard to live up to the expectations of her fans after her Olympic success. She said her life now has “no freedom at all.”
“Whatever you do, everything is interpreted the wrong way and then has to be justified,” Lipnitskaia said. “It’s not life, it’s constant stress.
As far as I am concerned, she has all the right to vent a bit. Fame comes with the risk of having little time, privacy and having everything you do analyzed or overblown out of proportion. There's nothing to do about it except getting used to it, but I don't blame her for a sigh or a rant here or there. She's just a human, not a machine.