interview of Carreira & Ponomarenko
In Russian with Olga Markova ( Christina does not speak) from ISU channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bh2dEPdPZ0
What are they saying?
Markova: You're pretty experienced athletes already, how would you asses your performance today? You did everything as planned? Are you satisfied?
Ponomarenko: I think everything was done as planned, we had speed, we had energy, we skated very well today
Markova: Yes, you really did. It's probably pretty often asked question about your parents, since you're a son of our lovely and very famous dancers, beautiful Marina Klimova and Sergey Ponomarenko: Did you have a choice to do something else, not figure skating?
Ponomarenko: They didn't want me to be a skater, but I wanted to. They bringed me once on a rink and I really liked it.
Markova: How old you were?
Ponomarenko: I was 4 years old.
Markova: And you decided that you want to do that when you was 4 y.o?
Ponomarenko: Yes (smiling)
M: That's pretty cool! How often did you train with your parents? And with whom did you train more: with your mom or your dad?
P: I worked with them my whole life. But 3 years ago I moved to Igor Shpilband's group. I worked with my mom more, she choreographed some programs for me.
M: Who's the strongest in your team? Who's the leader? You or your partner?
P: My partner (laughs) She tells me what to do every day. She (he forgot the russian word here) encourages me.
M: Good! Are your parents involved in your career now? Do they help with programs, consult you? Or everything is done by the coaching team you're currently working with?
P: They call me every day. Ask me questions about my day. I tell them if the programs are good, and if not they'll tell me what to do. If it was a bad training day too...
M: Okay. How often do they go with you to competitions? Especially now when you're not training with them anymore?
P: They don't. They watch everyting at home
M: ...and worry about you.
P: Yes, yes (laughs)
M: Thank you for the interview, it was very nice. Good luck to you in your next competitions and best wishes after that in 'big' FS life.
P: Thank you.
P.S. His Russian is GREAT! No accent whatsoever :shocked:
Edit: damn. I'm late as usual
