This season – a real breakthrough in the career of 16-year-old figure skater Evgenia Medvedeva. She won the Grand Prix Final in Barcelona, the championship of Russia in Yekaterinburg and here on Friday – the European Championship in Bratislava. Ahead is another unconquered peak – World Cup ( Boston, USA, March 26 – April 3). And the Olympic Games, to which another two years.
As a result of the short and long programs at the European Championships Medvedev scored 215.45 points silver medal with a score of 209.99 points won Elena Radionova. Third was Anna Pogorilaya ( 187,05). For the second year in a row podium was completely Russian. In 2015 in Stockholm, the gold won Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, the second was Radionova, third – Pogorilaya.
After rolling in Bratislava Medvedev talked with reporters to talk about their feelings after the victory.
– Today, when I was sitting in the Kiss-and-edge, the first time I cried from happiness. I have never had such a splash of emotions. It was both very suddenly, and I was very happy … It’s beyond words!
– Did you know how to skate Elena Radionova, leaving the free program?
– No, I even closed ears palms, not to hear the points of Lena.
– Why was it so important to know the amount of points?
– In fact, I always close my ears, I have such a habit. It is still so happened that I quickly prepared for the program. However, even if I listen to the evaluation. I did not hear. This here is my difficulty.
– Elizaveta Tuktamysheva not selected on the European and world championships, and therefore a triple axel in Boston will show only Mao Asada. Do you think that in the future, you may need a triple axel in the arsenal?
– I do not promise that I will try a triple axel. This year, definitely not. Maybe I’ll try to learn a quadruple Salchow at the end of the season. Clarify immediately that this is only my guess.
– you intrigued quadruple salhovom.
– I just have never tried him jump, honestly, but Since we were talking about the increasing complexity of the programs, the most likely option – this is Salchow. As everyone now realized, snipe (and, accordingly, a triple axel) – it’s not exactly what you need.
– A bug in the double axel – a thrill or a technical error?
– This is, I just let my head. This loss of concentration, and on this, too, need to work.
– What are the first thoughts in my head came when you realized you won?
– I do first no thought had not occurred. And the next thought – thanks to my coaches. Without them, this would never have had. I am extremely grateful to them.
– who had first to congratulate you? Apart from the coach, of course.
– I’ve now even open a message … I’ll tell you. Sania Stepanova congratulated first. Since there is no Internet, I can not see the messages in social networks, but the first smska it came from Sasha Stepanova.
– How much pressed to realize that you – a potential leader? Provided that you start?
– In fact, the start was for me very nervous, because not all did manage to workout here is perfect. I was very nervous in the short program, and this day break – another day experiences to an arbitrary – added excitement. Thoughts, of course, very different in my head coming, but with this we must be able to fight.
– Does the attitude of the people around you as you’ve become famous?
– I do not feel from my friends any change in the relationship. Since I have friends not so much, and I value them very much, very dear to me support my relatives and friends.
– The street has become to know?
– Honestly? No, it never came up.
– A wish?
– It would be interesting, yes. However, there was a story in the subway … I was sitting, it was winter: in a jacket packed in the hood. In front of me was a couple – a man and a woman – and I heard a woman quietly said: “This is Medvedev Eugene, Eugene Medvedev!”. I then eyes lifted, but to me they do not come.
– Eugene Medvedev riding the subway?
– Eugene Medvedev riding the subway, as well as all people, yes.
– How difficult was it to ride here, given that the gold medal to you, in fact, fans and journalists in advance hanged about his neck?
– I have not heard a word about it, seriously. For me the main thing – is to go out and skate at 100 percent. I mean, I try not to go into the social networks, which have expressed some assumptions and make bets. I never guessing ahead and try to disengage from it.
– In general, during the season you follow social networks?
– Yes, I watch.
– Ahead of the World Cup. On the final Grand Prix was already reconnaissance, but still, what do you expect from the competitors?
– I’m sure every girl going to work to the maximum, because it is an important start in the careers each athlete. Everyone will be fighting for the podium.
– You almost from day exercise led Eteri Tutberidze. How much are you able to realize all the things that you put in the coach?
– To be honest, most of all coming from her because he is a man of willpower unreal, unreal performance. Eteri G. – a man whom I respect immensely and I will always listen to it and realize all what she says.
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