Some highlights from Zhenya's interview with Vaitsekhovskaya:
On whether she's worried about the change\having bad results:
- You know, I'm by nature a human realist. I will be killed about my result only when I understand that I could have done better, but I did not do it. I can admit to myself in some not very pleasant things. If I understand that yes, this is my limit and for more I just can not at the moment, then I also admit that I took my place - the one that is right for me.
Now I clearly understand that for me a completely new life begins. I have never lived in another country before, I have never trained with foreign specialists, I have never eaten unusual food for more than two or three weeks. That is, everything changes completely. Absolutely new sheet. [...] First, I want to stay healthy. This is my main goal. Just need to try to make sure that this goal does not interfere with the result, find the right balance. In the load, in the diet, in the mental attitude, in the physical state.
About her post-Olympic recovery:
- It was a long process. My body and brain are arranged so that I recover very quickly after any stresses. Both mentally and physically. But, after the Olympics, everything was very long. In fact, only now I can say that mentally recovered completely.
On why she chose Orser and whether she likes the idea of training in a big group:
- Because Yuna Kim. This is the first thing that occurred to me when I began to think about the transition. Yuna won the Olympics in Vancouver in 19 years, and in 23 years she became the second at the Games in Sochi. At the Olympic Games in Beijing, I will be 22. The case, of course, is not in it alone. Orser in general there are many athletes, who in the figure skating are usually called age-old and who passed more than one olympiad. Yuna Kim is just one of them. [...] - Not at all. I have grown all my conscious life and trained in constant competition. It does not bother me at all. Especially since Bryan has the main part of his group - boys. This time. Secondly, Orser practices an individual approach to each athlete, and he himself constantly emphasizes this. Therefore, he has enough time and attention for everyone. And in general I like that before my eyes there will be a lot of top-level athletes who can give me something more than it was before.
On next season and rules changing:
- If we talk about the season as a whole, I'm not going to miss any starts. Neither open rentals, nor the Grand Prix stages. I would like to change the style of riding. Firstly, I have changed as a person and, probably, I can not be the same on the ice too. I have a different perception of life, a different perception of the world. I am sure that now I will come to Canada, and in my head everything will turn over again. I want to try myself on the ice in some new way. There are many images that I have never rolled, never even tried [...] These changes gave me a basis for further work, let's say. If they told us that we are now obliged to do all the jumps in the second half, I would have gone silently and did it.
On her old programs:
- Madly I liked the very first adult program, where I depict a girl who does not hear. "Karenina" really liked. But the one that I won with the second World Cup, at first I did not like at all. I just at the end of it "appreciated", because set a world record and I liked it that allows to reach the goal. And from "Karenina" I, as they say, the roof took down. Especially after these "January stars", where only the dress was beautiful. I was all in this program.
On how and why she learned english:
- In the most direct. I saw how foreign athletes of my age or a little older constantly chatting among themselves at competitions, and each time I thought: how do I want to talk to you too, but if I only knew how? Once I tried, then tried again. I brought three words from one trip, from the other five. Somewhere on the Internet I read how to correctly form a phrase, somewhere I learned some slang. And she did not notice how she was able not only to talk, but also to give interviews. It turns out not unmistakably, yes, somewhere I stumble, somewhere an incorrect grammar. But they understand me. And I understand people.
https://rsport.ria.ru/figure_skating/20180618/1138167724.html full interview - it's very long!
