- Joined
- Jun 21, 2003
Hard work, with a touch of paranoia?
This is a little bit old now, but there was a brief interview with T&M and their coach Oleg Vasiliev in last month's Spotlight on Skating. Some excepts:
SOS interviewer Klaus Reinhold-Kany: "I saw (coach) Tamara Moskvina's pair Yulia Obertas and Sergei Slavnov skating to the same (short program) music in June during a clinic in Germany. Did you know that?
Vasiliev: Yes, and they have to change it. I played this music to our Federation president Piseev in Moscow in may and asked him to promise me that no other top Russian pair would use it for their Olympic season. We were first, therefore we will keep it. Moskvina has to change the music for her pair; I think she already has.
SOS: What are your plans for this season?
Vasiliv: Around September 20th , we fly back to Moscow to show our programs to the official of our Federation...No members of the public are allowed...We do not want to show our programs (before their debut at Trophee Eric Bompard in November) because if they are not perfect rumors would spread to China and everywhere among the judges that they are not good. We know that we do not have only friends in the world, but also have enemies.
On life in general:
Marinen: "My life is only work, work, work; it is getting more tiring every year. Both of us are not getting any healthier....Our financial situation is getting worse and worse, although we have done about 40 shows (including the "Champions on Ice tour) this year. But we put all the money into our career -- the apartment, the car, the coach, the costumes, everything.
Totmianina: We have almost no private life here (in the U.S.), only work. I have to do all the household cores. We come to the rink in the morning and stay till five or six in the afternoon.
This is a little bit old now, but there was a brief interview with T&M and their coach Oleg Vasiliev in last month's Spotlight on Skating. Some excepts:
SOS interviewer Klaus Reinhold-Kany: "I saw (coach) Tamara Moskvina's pair Yulia Obertas and Sergei Slavnov skating to the same (short program) music in June during a clinic in Germany. Did you know that?
Vasiliev: Yes, and they have to change it. I played this music to our Federation president Piseev in Moscow in may and asked him to promise me that no other top Russian pair would use it for their Olympic season. We were first, therefore we will keep it. Moskvina has to change the music for her pair; I think she already has.
SOS: What are your plans for this season?
Vasiliv: Around September 20th , we fly back to Moscow to show our programs to the official of our Federation...No members of the public are allowed...We do not want to show our programs (before their debut at Trophee Eric Bompard in November) because if they are not perfect rumors would spread to China and everywhere among the judges that they are not good. We know that we do not have only friends in the world, but also have enemies.
On life in general:
Marinen: "My life is only work, work, work; it is getting more tiring every year. Both of us are not getting any healthier....Our financial situation is getting worse and worse, although we have done about 40 shows (including the "Champions on Ice tour) this year. But we put all the money into our career -- the apartment, the car, the coach, the costumes, everything.
Totmianina: We have almost no private life here (in the U.S.), only work. I have to do all the household cores. We come to the rink in the morning and stay till five or six in the afternoon.