I wonder if anyone might be able to translate this short article from Russian? I google-translated it, but I still can't figure out how, according to Nina, S/S tried to sabotage M/T in the last Grand Prix season. Thanks!
Roughly translated:
Nina Mozer, coach of the double Olympic champions Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov talked about the preparation of the couple prior to the start of the Games.
"Honestly, we did not have the smallest intention to start the season with a bang. Rather there were a lot of trivial problems, due to which we were unable to prepare perfectly for the competition in Oberstdorf. That is why the guys went out on the ice entirely focused. This often happens in sport-just as people are at peak shape, within them there is a feeling that everything is awesome. And immediately the probabillity of mistakes rises.
The first three competitions all went with adventures. We arrived in Oberstdorf at the last minute, after 18 hours travel and almost missed the start. Then the three of us flew to USA for Grand Prix. Stas Morozov went to attend another competition. When we are a small entourage, we are better collected. Between USA and Grand Prix in Japan, we had 10 days - barely enough to recover from the jet lag. And there we also performed well.
For the final of Grand Prix we prepared very seriously. The guys were in top form, they knew that they were well prepared. And then unexpectedly we were presented with a situation that it never entered anyone's head to think about.
The thing is that Alena Savchenko, Robin Shelkowi and their coach Ingo Steuer have managed, as became apparent, to thouroughly learn our habits and rituals. I was amazed actually- in the big sport one must be able to bring discomfort to the competition.
From the moment we arrived at Fukuoku we were met with the fact that all was not the way we were used to. You want to pour youself some tea, tea is missing. Some such nonsence, you start feeling discomfited. All these pesky little things started to attract other such.
All went so awry that after her skate, Tanya came to me completely stunned and said: Nina Mihailovna, this is some bad spell-how did I manage to make such mistakes?
Actually later, when I analyzed all previous seasons entries, I saw that in December and January in Volosozhar and Trankov always there was a down trend, i.e. all that was going on with them on the eve of the Games, was normal.
PS It seems to me that at the end of the interview she invalidates everything she said earlier
If there is any native Russian speaking person here, please feel free to correct my translation. Russian is not my native language and neither is English for that matter
Thanks for all the translations, SallyTeoh & eli60056!
