Recent interviews with Evgenia Medvedeva

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Came across two long video interviews with Evgenia:

This one is two hours long and has ENG subtitles, was filmed in Sochi while she took part in Averbukh's Anna Karenina show (skating pairs with Aleksandr Enbert)

Евгения Медведева - Об олимпиаде, возвращении к Тутберидзе и отношениях с Загитовой (Eng subs)

Евгения Медведева - фигуристка, двукратная чемпионка мира, Европы и России, серебряный призер Олимпийских игр в Пхёнчхане. Специально для нашего интервью я с...

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The other one is " Spicy Coocking with Liasan Utiasheva" (afaik, this is an 'interviewing while cooking' kind of show)

Евгения Медведева - О Ледниковом периоде, Дане Милохине и диете фигуристок

Евгения Медведева – российская фигуристка, двукратный серебряный призер Олимпийских игр и двукратная чемпионка мира сегодня стала гостем «Дерзкой готовки» и ...

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I haven't watched it yet and didn't see the full text version, but here are some excerpts:
On studying and future career plans

- I went to the Graduate School of Cultural Policy and Management in the Humanities at the Moscow State University. In short, I will be a producer. I went there specifically to get the knowledge, I'm really interested in how everything works from the inside. By the way, I passed the entrance test in English - I got into the strongest group.
I cannot boast that I did everything without mistakes. It also happened that my English is more a spoken one: I did not learn the rules, I speak the slang. As they say, in castrated English, it is incomplete.
- Do you want to become a producer and create shows like Averbukh?
- I want to understand - is this what I want? I love to create, I am interested in choreographing programs, creating images. Sometimes you hear the music, you are paralyzed - and think: ahh, you have to create something with it, - said Medvedeva.

On Eteri Tutberidze and most important medals

- Do you have a good relationship with your coach? They write different things, I want to hear that from yourself
- Now yes. What happened after the Olympics should not be disclosed, because the masses do not know - these are still personal matters. I authoritatively declare that everything is in okay now - we communicate, see each other, talk, it's normal.
- Have all of your dreams come true at the moment?
- It is foolish to say yes, because no.
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- What is your most important medal?
- In my first junior season I had a very serious hip injury - it was very hard, very painful. But since I was just getting into international competitions, I had to prove myself. With this injury, I competed at the Junior Worlds and took third place there.
It was really bad for me, because I was the favorite that season, and then an injury happened. At that time I was very unhappy with myself, the coaches were unhappy. Through the years I look and think: it was a very strong moment. This is a very symbolic medal, - said Medvedeva.

On retirement and decision to sit this season out

- Did I understand correctly that you have stopped competing?
- For this season, I decided: I shouldn't even try. Because I don’t want to talk about injuries for the thousandth time, but they still play the main role.
From the experience of other people who have retired, and I have seen many in my life - when they announced the retirement, there was universal mourning. Probably, people are very divided in this: I retire - and everyone sees this as a funeral. And all the talks begin: oh, she left us - as if I has died.
- One life ends, another begins.
- Not everyone understands this. I don't want to disappear. I haven’t left the ice, I skate in the shows - even more often. During the competition period I appeared on the ice 8-10 times per year, now I have already skated 48 performances over the summer. I enjoy it, I like to create.
18 years in sports is cool and great. But when you feel: here it is seething in you, you want to try this, you want to try new choreography, make a wheel on ice ...
- That is, it's not that you said goodbye to the ice, but you finished with competitions?
- At the moment - yes, for this season for sure. At the Olympics I will be in a role of the ambassador of the Russian national team, as in I was supposed to be in Tokyo, although I did not go there. My position remains for China as well.

Right now she takes part in the Channel's 1 "Ice Age" shows and commentates JGP events (hinted that she will also continue with the senior ones)


UPD: Recent appearance at the skating show in Moscow, skating to 'Algeria' that was supposed to be her last year's LP

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