Vaytsekhovskaya's interview with Patrice Lauzon

[Sylvia]

Published on March 27, 2018: https://rsport.ria.ru/interview/20180327/1134674720.html

Translated here: http://fs-gossips.com/patrice-lauzon-great-programs-are-never-born-easily/

Google translates the headline as the option "to gnaw a rival throat" in our work is missing. This is the paragraph it comes from:

EV: I readily believe that it’s so in training, but how to remain friends when you are fighting for one medal?

– I agree, it’s harder. Although there hasn’t been an equal competition between these pairs yet. Such as Gabby and Guillaume faced when they began to train with Tessa and Scott. From the very beginning both duets realized that one of them will win the Olympics and another will lose. In such situation it is very important to explain the athlete that he always competes with himself, not with the rival. If you can become an improved version of yourself then chances of winning will rise automatically. Option “rip opponent’s throat” disappears in this scheme as unnecessary.