Interview with Tamara Moskvina
Тамара Москвина — о сложностях с календарем сезона, спонсорах в фигурном катании и угрозах пандемии.
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Did the virus have a big impact on the preparations for the new season?
- I can't say that it influenced the training process a lot, now everyone is returning to normal life. We took the methods of the Lesgaft University of Physical Education and Sports, exercises from acrobatics and gymnastics. We made notices from the process of recovering from long-term injuries. As they say, if your legs hurt - work with your hands. If your legs and arms hurt - work with your head, watch TV, the Internet, watch masterpieces of theatrical art, ballet. Anything you can use to keep up.
- What is happening now affects the Olympic prospects? And the results become unpredictable, and we can’t be sure the Olympics will take place at all.
- It does, so what? Nothing is wrong. And who was waiting for the appearance of telephones, satellites, Skype? But it happened, and somehow we adapted. Even if the Olympics do not take place, this won’t be a disaster. There have been boycotts and cancellations of the Olympics in the past. No one will die because of the cancellation. Let's say 150 skaters will be interested in the Olympics. And out of the billions of people living on the planet, tens of millions will ask: "What is figure skating?" And the Olympics will continue to exist forever.
Boikova and Kozlovsky, for example, have not yet participated in the Games. This means that they will participate later, since it will be so destined and if the competitions do not take place in Beijing or will be postponed. The sports journalism industry will probably be at more difficult position, they will have nothing to write about.
- And for figure skating, this will not be a blow? Don't you believe that even the current scale of the pandemic is disastrous for sports? Sponsors of major competitions leave, skaters follow and retire.
- It is very difficult to predict. But we, for example, did not have personal sponsors even before. Parents help their children, the Russian Figure Skating Federation, too, of course. But in general, Tamara Moskvina's Figure Skating Sports Club is self-sufficient.
- But wouldn't you like the best Russian couple to be approached by brands with advertising offers?
- I would like to. But it is better to ask those sponsors why they do not ask us. At the moment we have something to do, and such conversations only distract from the work. We do not attach great importance to this topic, it is not the main determinant of success. And we try to perform well. Here I am 148 centimeters, but I would like to be 170 cm and have 90/60/90 measurements. But somehow it didn’t work out. Just why talk about non existent things.
- Sometimes such stories can influence on the athletes. The other day Alena Kostornaya left the group of Eteri Tutberidze, and it is quite possible that in her and Alexandra Trusova's cases financial nuances played a role.
- Sort out the reasons for the coaching changes yourself, dear correspondent. And I need to work with high-level skaters, take care of my husband, honored coach Igor Borisovich Moskvin, who will soon turn 91, and not forget about my health. I'm at risk, after all.
