I'll try to upload all Medvedeva's russian interviews with english subtitles in a week
Tyranid, Why are you posted that piece of crap here?
Do you want to bring some hate here?
Its just awfull.
Sports.ru is a trash site but it has the most active info wall on the internet regarding FS. It's kinda like Wikipedia with a comment section. Basically, you dont read the actual stuff on Sports.ru but rather go to the LINK provided ( be it Icenetwork, sport-express, sovsport, etc.). Just like wiki.
And about the hate toward Zhenia, well let's see:
She pushed out "Motherland's Favorite" Lipnitskaia and made her cry and stuff.
She pushed out Sahanovich and made her fall into an abyss (from JGPF vice-champion to 2nd to last at Jr. Nats, ouch!)
She is a dirty Armenian and not a Pureblood Slavic Beauty(TM).
She is in good relations with Eteri, and no one likes Eteri cuz she abandoned "Motherland's Favorite" Lipnitskaia
She pads her TES with too much sloppy pseudo-'tanos and program disballancing backloading.
Her Lutz is Flutzy.
Her limbs are too thin.
Her voice is too deep/loud/harsh.
Her nose tip is too big.
Etc, etc, etc,.
People are bored inbetween competitions and every plot needs a villain. It's quite pathetic tbh.
#FearTheMedvedeva
#DontPokeTheBear
Q: Is this important for you to adapt a program for the audience? Does the sport always enjoy you? Whose choreography do you like?
A: Of course, it’s important that the programs and the image were pleasuring for the audience. In both the programs we try to transfer an image, to tell a story, to give all the best most emotionally.
Q: Do you take a part in creation of images, and also suits? What image would you like to embody on ice?
A: Everybody take part in creation of images and suits: both trainers, and choreographers, and I. I think that the my own image didn't appear yet.
Q: Whether does the relation of people round you change as you become known? Is it difficult to communicate with age-mates? And how do you overcome the obstacles and difficulties arising on your way? Who are your support in difficult situations?
A: The relation of those people who surrounded me at the beginning of the way doesn't change. I remain the same Zhenya Medvedeva, and friends don't change the attitude towards me. It isn't difficult to communicate with age-mates, we have many general subjects: it’s not only sport, but also movies, series. I will answer with one answer two questions. My parents and trainers on whom I can rely completely because I completely trust them help me to overcome all difficulties and obstacles arising on my way
Evgenia Medvedeva: The main gift is a bear
Q: Zhenya, you somehow told that you take part in creation of the dresses.
A: It is the truth, coachers, choreographers and even parents participate in this process. So the new dress is always the collective decision with adults. By the way, initial sketches not always correspond to that turns out as a result. In operating time the mood changes and new ideas come.
Q: So why in exhibition number to the song "I will remain" of the band “Gorod 312” you skate in shorts and a t-shirt – that’s in what people usually walk on the street?
A: We have chosen an urban style. But I think the exhibition gala number will constantly change, so at the World Cup will be another number.
Q: How does it turn out to combine figure skating and school?
A: I study in the ninth grade. This year I will hand over OGE (the main state exam for the 9th classes), I am engaged with tutors at home. Sometimes it happens difficult, but I study at Sambo-70 school where they provide me all conditions. It is much easier to study where, the teachers meet halfway and the class meets me in a very positively way.
Q: What is your favourite and unloved subject?
A: Easier for me are geometry, history and biology. I have no problem subjects at all.
Q: You will be able to prove the Pythagorean theorem right now?
A: What? No, not now, – Evgenia laughs.
Q: Each adult knows that these adults at some point start irritating all teenagers.
A: No, I have no such accidents. Neither parents, nor trainers don't irritate me at all, – smiles Medvedeva
Q: Had you any moments in your childhood when there was a wish to tell: I won't go one skating rink more, I don't want?
A: Probably, there were moments when I was upset very strongly then. I learned, for example, a triple jump and I fell and fell again. It is clear that the little girl like me could give up in those moments.
Q: In what age have you jumped a triple jump for the first time?
A: In eight years. But in the difficult moments I was helped by parents and trainers.
Q: What exactly?
A: They encouraged me and supported morally
Q: You told that you have a shelf with cups and medals at home. But what gift from fans is the most memorable for you?
A: That was presented me at the Nationals in Yekaterinburg. There the fan from China arrived and brought me a huge bear who is more than me. The photo with it all probably already saw.
Q: You told that your dog got used to it for a long time.
A: Now the dog doesn't see it, the bear sits on a case.
Q: With whom of figure skaters you are on friendly terms most of all?
A: I communicate well with Ania Pogorila, Katya Bobrova and Sasha Stepanova.
Q: Katya promised you to kick the *** for falling on the double axel at the Europeans. Did she realized the threat?
A: Yes, she did, – Zhenya smiles.
Q: Questionnaire "My favourite" Dish?
A: Sushi. More precisely, Philadelphia rolls and Chukka salad
Q: You know how to cook them?
A: Yes, I do. But I have no time for it
Q: Book?
A: About Sherlock Holmes.
Q: Song?
A: Hero, Skillet band
Q: Car?
A: "Chevrolet".
Q: Country, except Russia?
A: Spain.
Q: Five questions about Boston where will took place Worlds. What is "The Boston tea drinking"?
Versions of answers:
1. A historical meeting of presidents of the USSR and the USA which took place in Boston over a cup of tea
2. A tradition of residents of Boston to have tea on Sundays.
3. A historical event when Americans sank the English ship with tea that became the beginning of fight for independence of the USA
A: Probably, the third option
(correct)
Q: In Boston you will skate on the ice arena where NHL club "Boston Bruins" plays ice hockey. How are the players of this team called?
1. "Coyotes"
2. "Skunks"
3. "Bears"
A: I never watched ice hockey. Let there will be "Coyotes"
(actually it is "Bears")
Q: What well-known actress was born in Boston?
1. Scarlett Johansson
2. Uma Thurman
3. Madonna
A: Oh, what the difficult questions, – the figure skater laughs. – Perhaps, Madonna
(Correct answer: Uma Thurman)
Q: What kind of dance was born in Boston?
1. Waltz
2. Hip-hop
3. Twerk
A: First option: waltz Boston!
(right)
Q: Natives of what country most of all in Boston?
1. Irish
2. Poles
3. Russians
A: Well, I know it: Irish, – Zhenya rejoices.
(Total: 3:2 in favor of Medvedeva. And she wins again!)
Q: Zhenya, all the female athletes at this championship, on trainings and on competitions, are extremely concentrated and even are gloomy. And you everything occurs "on smile"
A: We with my coach have such a spirit - on absolute tranquility and in a positive way
Q: Before the long program Eteri took your hands and something told you...
A: Words of attitude. They change periodically, depending on a situation. For me the main thing in it is full tranquillity. Words of the coach were also directed on it.
Q: On the last morning practice you made the combos 3-3-3 and I counted their three pieces.
A: Everything is right, I do "flip-toe-toe" and "salchow-toe-toe" consistently
Q: What is the most difficult for you at this event? Axel?
A: (laughs) Why all about the double axel think?! No, for me the most difficult jump is Lutz
Q: Do you feel that after the Moscow stage of the Grand Prix you gradually started to break away from rivals, including Russians? The reserve is such that you can even be mistaken, but win.
A: I feel that I have a gap to work further and to be improved. This is the only thing that I feel
Q: In the current season you win just everything and you become the champion not only by results, but already in fact. Do you read or watch some materials about other people who was able to win at various times?
A: When I recognize a new person, I find on the Internet or on YouTube his name, I learn something new and thus I learn history of other people. So I reconsidered very many figure skaters. The most curious in this is how everything occurred till ourdays, during other era much earlier. It seems to me the situation was absolutely different, not like now.
Q: What is the fundamental difference, in your opinion?
A: The emotions. I think the people felt differently
Q: World championship will be held in Boston. Do you look forward to meeting with the city?
A: This is a very beautiful city, I want to see it. Interestingly, I can’t even imagine what is there the atmosphere and how it looks, but I'm specifically not looking and not checking any references about Boston, that it was a surprise. I was in Milwaukee at the beginning of the season, at Skate America. But there were not so many places that you can visit. Yeah and t I had no time for it absolutely
Q: But have you a walk there?
A: Yeah,I walked around the corner to the store. And in the store I was talking on the phone, where I was looked at strangely. I think people are very curious reacted to the Russian language.
Q: Where would you like to visit?
A: My dream is to go to London and learn English
Q: At a press conference in the responses to Western journalists, you could speak good English.
A: I’m trying
Ilya Averbukh: Medvedeva is a real phenomenon in the Russian figure skating
Q: Evgenia Medvedeva, as expected, won the European Championships, but not without mistakes. What’s the matter, in your opinion? Is she tired?
A: I would have said not about the mistakes, but about Medvedeva shows very stable performances throughout the season. It is worth noting. And at the Europeans took place, perhaps some reducing the concentration. She made the mistake on the simplest jump from all the items that there are in the program, after the desperate cascade "three-three", which was performed in the final part of the program that has added to her margin in points. I think that emotions have overflowed when she realized that most of the work is done. It was affected by the lack of an optimal experience. Medvedeva is a real phenomenon in the Russian figure skating. She cannot be put in several fleeting ups and downs. She has to pass quite difficult stages of physical development. As someone who works with her and see what she's doing in trainings, how she argues, what purposes she sets before herself, I can say: Medvedeva’s rivals cannot expect that they will have all chances to win because the next year Zhenya gets older and it have something may change. Medvedeva came seriously and for a long time
Q: How important is the support of the parents, their opinion?
A: My friends always support me. Whatever happens, I know that they will always be there. Mom works, but all the time, free and non-free, she dedicates to me. Earlier my grandmother went to the competition with me, now I go independently. Relatives love me very much and their advice is important to me. Mom always knows how to set me. She and grandma are the closest and favorite people for me
Q: Zhenya, you're good at drawing. What has such passion caused?
A: For me painting is a hobby. This is outburst of emotions. Sometimes I look a really great movie and I am overwhelmed. I need to put it somewhere and the only thing I came up with is throw out everything on paper. Not always happy with my drawings. Sometimes I draw that did not expect. But I need it. It's some kind of special inspiration. And I have a little dream – after sports, after studying in Institute to learn the profession of makeup artist. But it is only plans that can be updated.
Q: You seem to like everything Japanese. How you treat your rival figure skaters from Japan?
A: On ice and off ice we, at least I are different people. On the ice we can go nowhere from the competition. But off the ice we are just ordinary people. We communicate in social networks. With Wakaba Higuchi we exchanged parcels with different gifts regularily. With Satoko Miahara we not so much talk. She is very modest. But always fit, congratulations, if necessary, support. About the love for all Japanese yes, I like the people, the food...
Q: Everyone says that you have the perfect figure for skater is graceful, subtle, sonorous. But how do you maintain weight? Is it some kind of special diet?
A: No, I do not adhere to the diet.
Q: You travel to different countries for competitions. Generally do you like to travel?
A: Yes, I am very interested to visit new places. I was in such places that are so dazzling, you don't even believe that you are here. It energizes me for the whole year.
Q: What places did you particularly impress?
A: An impressed trip on the Teide volcano in Tenerife. There offers just the landscape of Mars: all red, some craters... It's just something impossible! And there, in the Canary Islands, we went to a nearby island, and there was the relic forest. It was so thick-Pregolya the jungle, which even did not miss the light. Although we went to relax in the middle of the season, and on the islands where it was very hot in the forest it was so cold that people were wearing sweaters. There was darkness, fog and humidity that my hair was curling up. I saw some six-foot dandelions, ferns of totally unrealistic sizes, like trees, all overgrown with moss, vines hanging everywhere... in a Word, it was a feeling that just a dinosaur appear the huge trees. We were in the place where they filmed the movie "Avatar". We sailed there by canoe, because there is just unreal nice.
Q Is there some place where you would love to go but not managed yet?
A: Yes, it's London. This is my dream for five years, I guess. I think that when I shall be 20 years old, I give everything up and instead of going to some tropical place, I make a visa, buy a ticket and go to London to learn English on Baker street. This is really my dream.
Q: After the Grand Prix final in Barcelona many skaters said that he would like to live in Barcelona for a while. Are there any city that able to impress you much?
A: I agree about Barcelona. I was there already three times and has traveled almost the entire city.
Q: And if you could be in any place of the globe, just by clicking your fingers, where would he go?
A: There is such a beautiful city to Malaga in Spain, and London, of course. Maybe even new York, Times Square
Q: Are you already recognized on the street??
A: Honestly? No, they never came yet.
Q: But would you like that they did?
A: It would be interesting. However, there was one story in the subway... I was sitting in a jacket (it was winter), packed in the hood. In front of me was a couple – man and woman – and I heard the lady said softly: "It's Zhenya Medvedeva, Zhenya Medvedeva!", then I looked up but they didn’t come to me.
Q: Does Zhenya Medvedeva ride the subway?!
A: Zhenya Medvedeva rides the subway, like all people, yes.
Q: You are hardly from the very first day training under the guidance of Eteri Tutberidze. How you have managed to achieve all that you have invested in the coach?
A: Honestly, the best part of all comes from her, because this is a human being having great will power, great working capacity. Eteri Georgievna is the person I respect and will always listen to her and realize what she's saying
Q: Do you trust in signs?
A: I don't know sign or not, but I always put on the right skate firstly. It was moved thus. But I think if I start do it from the left one, nothing bad will happen
Q: What's it like in 16 years to win the gold medal at the European championship?
A: To be honest, I still didn't realize this. Probably not ready to accept it yet. I'm the same Zhenia Medvedeva — an ordinary girl who has fun with friends, sometimes behaves irresponsibly. They try to treate me as to the adult, ask intelligent questions, but I feel myself as a child
She's just so likeable! I love that asked similar questions, she said she wants a Chevy and Elena wants a Merecedes (not like there's anything wrong with that though)!
I also like her thoughts on her travels, especially the bit about the "dinosaur island"...she is an imaginative person no doubt. Hopefully, that shows more and more in her skating as well.
Evgeni & Evgenia Show"Dreams on Ice 2016" in Aore Nagaoka 01-03.07.2016 (4 shows)