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- Evgenia, maybe it's time for you to reveal to Maxim Kovtun, who failed at the team world championship, the secret of how not to worry about competitions?
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Medvedeva: I'm so immersed in myself before the performances that sometimes I do not even notice that people are talking to me, and I do not hear anything around me at all. Various factors help me in this. I feel the support of our team, our federation, our coaches. For me, this is certainly important, even though we have an individual sport. In the process of preparation I am supported by a lot of people, for which I am very grateful.
- Are the girls whipping you up, the ones who are training next to you on the ice and stamping the quadruple jumps? Like Anna Shcherbakova and Alexandra Trusova.
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Tutberidze: Let them first perform that at the competitions, and then we will discuss this.
- It seemed that Evgenia Medvedeva was the only one from the Russian participants of the World Team Championship who just couldn't miss.
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Tutberidze: As for the team tournament, it probably was hard for the guys to prepare for it as a serious tournament, but Zhenya and I approached it like this: I believe in the base, which is laid in training. If you approach the start as a serious, and not as a holiday, it will work out. And if you allow yourself to relax even for a week, it will immediately affect the outcome.
- Will Medvedeva's choreographers change next season?
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Tutberidze: We have not only Ilya (Averbuch) who develops programs. It would be wrong to say so. In fact, we have a large team. We are satisfied of how it goes now. Last year, a free program was set up, which Alexander Fyodorovich (Kogan), General Director of FFKKR, and Alexander Georgievich (Kogan), the president of FFKKR, reviewed. But then there was a decision to change it. And we, together with Ilya, changed the program. We can not say that we have only one choreographer. He is one of the team members who works on programs, on the image, with Zhenya. I'm not going to fire anyone from this team, including myself. If something does not work, we'll think about adding someone else. And if everything goes its own way, then ... We have eyes and ears after all.
- Is it worth waiting for the classics in the Olympic season?
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Tutberidze: Well, we will see. Something can work from this direction. The question is what the audience is waiting for. And spectators are also the judges.
- Readers of "R-Sport" twitter are asking: will Sergey Dudakov and Daniil Gleichenhaus stay in the coaching team?
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Tutberidze: What do you mean "stay"? It's like a table with three legs - me, Sergey Victorovich, Daniil Markovich. You can not remove any of the legs.
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Medvedeva: It's like a family.
- Why does Sergei Viktorovich so rarely talk to the press?
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Tutberidze: He's just shy. There is always someone shy.
- Parents with children ask in social networks: how they can see your training?
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Tutberidze: Just come to the rink. No one has ever been denied in this.
- Zhenya, you somehow said that you will reread the entire grandmother's library. At what stage is this process now?
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Medvedeva: It is now at the textbooks stage, because this year I have exams. Before the Worlds, I stopped my studies a bit and completely devoted myself to sports, and now I need to catch up with the school curriculum. Therefore, I'm reading textbooks now.
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Tutberidze: ... not departing from the sport.
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Medvedeva: Of course, without departing from the sport, because now it is the off-season, and i will have a lot to learn.
- Eteri Georgievna, what helped you, when you could not find a job after returning from America?
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Tutberidze: Love of figure skating. If you really want it, you will get it eventually.
- Evgenia said more than once that she plans to learn ultra-c elements.
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Tutberidze: We are training in this direction, but there is no point to talk about jumps that have not been performed yet at the official competitions. Little girls perform them in training - well, that's good. And we did it (posted a video with quads of Anna Shcherbakova and Alexandra Trusova) just to please them.
- Zhenya, we all know about your love for Japanese culture and cuisine. But the Olympics will be in Korea. Do you want to change the menu from Japanese to Korean? Maybe you started looking for some kind of Korean theme for the music in the program?
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Tutberidze: If you mean "Sailor Moon", then this is not our idea. I still haven't seen this cartoon. This is Zhenya's favorite cartoon, her idol, she has chosen the music. If she finds some Korean cartoon, well, no problem.
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Medvedeva: Korean menu is too spicy for me, so I'm gonna stick with the white rice. (she probably said it ambiguously
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- Eteri Georgievna, what do you think about backloading, and does it affect the composition of the program negatively?
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Tutberidze: First, everything depends on the music itself. Sometimes it helps to create a composition, and if the music amplifies and accents are made when the jumps come, why not? But if during the first two minutes of the program it becomes boring, and then skating begins and so on ... There must be a complex.
- Evgenia, would you like to perform together with Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu in one of the shows?
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Medvedeva: I am inspired by the skating of Yuzuru Hanyu. I would be glad to perform with him on the Fantasy on Ice show, if the organizers allow. But I can only go to the last show (from this series), because I have exams.
- Evgenia, we have a question from social networks about whether the discomfort is created because of the competition in the group between you and Alina Zagitova?
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Medvedeva: For me, competition is always good, to see how my rivals work, my future rivals. I understand what kind of bar you need to set for yourself. I know that I still have a lot to learn. Competition does not irritate me, but it spurs me.
- Eteri Georgievna, does Evgenia plan to perform in team competitions at the 2018 Olympic Games?
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Tutberidze: You should ask federation about this, not me.
- But your opinion will be asked.
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Tutberidze: First, you have to be in a good shape. It is important to come up in the good shape in order to qualify for the team tournament. I guess that schedule will be the same as at the last Olympics, and girls will have more than enough time to recover (between team competitions and tournament in women's single skating). This is a responsible tournament for the team and girls, but this is not up to us to decide. But we are ready.
- What would you say about the new duet "(coach Evgeniy) Plushenko - (skater Adelina) Sotnikova"? Is there a prospect?
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Tutberidze: They should prove themselves first, and then one can ask such questions. If the athlete wants to get a second, third breath, then we should wish good luck to them.
- What stages of the Grand Prix next season would you like to visit most?
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Tutberidze: We have not discussed this yet. I think that on May 3 we will write a plan, because, i guess, on May 5 we are passing plans (preparations for FFKKR). We should decide what will be more convenient for us, considering schedule.
- Evgenia, does Eteri Georgievna helps you with the choice of hairstyle and image?
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Medvedeva: Always. Because if something is wrong with my hair, then - "go, redo it." She always helps me with both make-up and style.
- Eteri Georgievna, how's your daughter Diana Davis doing?
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Tutberidze: She now trying ice dance, but the rules of this sport is kinda alien to me. I asked Aleksandr Zhulin to see my daughter, he replied: "It's like to borrow money from a friend..."
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Tutberidze: This is different. The coach who will take my daughter will also take a responsibility. I will also try to follow the process.
- Hard?
- Well, we'll see how it goes. I haven't found a "victim" yet.
- Tatiana Anatolievna Tarasova.
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Tutberidze: Firstly, our ice rink is far from her house, and she does not have her own ice.
- Did foreign athletes ask you to join your group?
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Tutberidze: They ask. Lisa Tursynbayeva, who skated and grown here. And was jumping triple Axel, Zhenya will not let me lie. Then she changed the flag (from Russian to Kazakhstan). She still visits us sometimes. I can not say that I really wanted to work with her. But i felt like I will be glad if she would jump stable quad salchow. (Next sentence is hard to translate, so i'm gonna just skip it. She basically means that she's patriotic). Sometimes i'm asked to take athletes from serious federations. For example to take the second number of the Chinese team. But, in order to not be rude, I simply declare a price that is too big.
- Plushenko announced his price. 60 thousand rubles(1000$) per hour for personal training.
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Tutberidze: Who will agree on this price? And what if his coach would ask him to pay that price, would he have become an Olympic champion? When money is combined with opportunities - it's great. But this is one of a million. I have athletes with complex family situations, or moved from somewhere. We support them. For example Polina Tsurskaya, Alina Zagitova. These girls are breadwinners in the family. I haven't seen the ones who would have money, opportunities, talent and desire, all in the same time.
- Alexei Nikolaevich Mishin said more than once that he prefers to work with two average boys than with one talented girl. You are better at working with girls than with boys. Why?
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Tutberidze: I understand girls better, in my opinion they are more ready for work. The job is explained - the job is completed. It's more difficult with boys. They want to feel that they are loved. They want to be pitied. They begin to demonstratively "kill" with single and double jumps for this. But sorry - it's not about me.
. As others have already mentioned, Kaetlyn's spins are better, and IMO her jumping/performance abilities are both far superior to Anna's.
he wrote something like "its f**cking insane"
