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If someone finds a good (readable) photo of the actual article in the Pirouette magazine, I could translate the rest of the interview from German.
Anna Shcherbakova
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not so good but readable as I think:
leider hinkt mein Deutsch auf beiden Beinen. Therefore, I will be very happy if you translate. If it's hard to see right here, you can download it to your computer and zoom in when viewing.
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she is an incredible person, truly the embodiment of perfection. The real pride of my country5 days to learn the new SP... truly impressive
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Absolutely and an incredible ambassador. Speaks so well and kindly about others. Never rude, always respectful, thoughtful without losing the fun and spark.
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In the words of Konstantin Simonov:Also hi buddy @flanker
Wait for me and I wil return.
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@CrazyKittenLady if the image that @Alex Fedorov posted is too difficult for you to read, I can either use PS to enlarge the image so it’s not blurry and/or simply post the words here. Either way is quick and easy so it really doesn’t matter.
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@Minz, @Alex Fedorov thanks, the image is perfectly fine. 
I'm still at work, but I'll try to do the translation today in the evening.
I'm still at work, but I'll try to do the translation today in the evening.
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Не волнуйтесь, ваш немецкий, наверное, намного лучше моего русского.not so good but readable as I think:
leider hinkt mein Deutsch auf beiden Beinen. Therefore, I will be very happy if you translate. If it's hard to see right here, you can download it to your computer and zoom in when viewing.
So thanks very much for all the translations from Russian that you provide, I am glad that I can help out this once. Though I have to say, this interview originally was obviously not conducted in German, so some wordings in the article frankly sound a bit odd... However, I tried to stay as true to the German version as possible.Interview with Anna Shcherbakova conducted by Tatjana Flade, Pirouette Magazine
Anna Shcherbakova - “You mustn’t let it show when something goes wrong.”
Image caption: World champion Anna Shcherbakova (17) comfortably won her two Grand Prix stages in Italy and France.
Please take stock after your two Grand Prix events.
Anna: I am satisfied with my performance at my two Grand Prix stages. I can say that I move forward step by step. It is important to me to improve something at each competition in comparison to the one before. At my first GP stage it was my goal to show a quad and I skated a clean FS. At my second GP we made some changes in the SP, that I showed for the first time in competition. In my FS I wanted to jump a quad Lutz, but I made a huge mistake and I think that I still need some more confidence to go for the quad Lutz. The jump needs to become more stable, but I am glad that I could skate the rest of the program clean after the fall, and that I stood up on my second quad.
You had a brand new SP.
Anna: I could only practise this program for five days in Moscow and we did our best to make it look good for this competition, but of course it is not enough time to connect each movement to the music. When I skated the program in the GP I was so nervous, not because of the jumps, but because of each movement, each detail. Usually I think about improving the jumps, but here I just thought about not missing a movement.
How risky was it to change the SP right before the GP?
Anna: It was risky to do it before the competition, because the program wasn’t fully practised. But from a long term perspective we think this program will be advantageous and we will work a lot on it, to make the impression better for the important competitions. I think it was the right decision.
What do you like better about this program?
Anna: The program is completely different. I can say that I haven’t had such a program before, because here you need to stay alert from beginning to end. There is no slow part as usual, you have to keep the tempo from beginning to end, and it’s not just about the speed, but also about expression, you have to skate this program with force. I try to do this now, but I noticed that I lacked a bit of strength in the beginning and it was hard. But this is a normal training process. Once I am secure with the new steps, I think I will manage this new choreography. We see the potential.
How will you approach the GP final?
Anna: We will do more work on the SP, on the whole program. For the FS it’s more about the technical part, to get it clean. For the more important competitions the program needs to be clean, every jump must work out – I can’t allow myself such a mistake as with the first jump, where I only got negative GOE.
But surely this doesn’t happen often.
Anna: I only remember some occasions where this happened in practise, but you can count them on the fingers of one hand. Had this happened in practise, probably we would have turned off the music and I would have started anew. When I make a mistake, I get back up and of course continue the program, as if nothing had happened. You mustn’t let it show when something goes wrong. But I wasn’t prepared for such a mistake, so I had to collect myself afterwards, I was rattled. Good that I managed all the other elements, but I can criticize myself, because I constantly thought about the mistake up until the ending pose.
What exactly happened? Was there a hole?
Anna: I don’t know exactly. I watched the replay, probably you can’t say 100% what went wrong. It could have been a fluke and bad luck with the ice, but it could also be in the head, lacking confidence in the jump, mixed with adrenaline leading to that error.
By your own admission you lagged a bit behind at the beginning of the season after your foot injury in summer. How is it now?
Anna: Each year I get into form in the course of the season and I always try to make progress. The main thing for me is not to come to a standstill, but to feel with each practise, each day, each competition that I’ve achieved something and that I see the results of my work.
Who is the most influential person for you?
Anna: When talking about figure skating that would be first and foremost Eteri Georgievna (Tutberidze). In sports it’s always important to respect the coach’s authority. My parents just support me in the training process but they can give no professional assessment of what I’m doing.
Who inspires you?
Anna: There are other athletes, other people outside of sports, who inspire me in one situation or another, but I can’t give you one concrete name. Yuzuru Hanyu is one of them, there are a number of figure skaters that I follow and who are just great – also Nathan Chen. I don’t compare them to each other. Everyone is so unique, nobody loses in comparison to the other. I also like Boyang Jin and Yuma Kagiyama, who is a very interesting skater. Of the ice dancers I really like Gabriella (Papadakis) and Guillaume (Cizeron). At the GP in Italy I took my first picture with them and was very happy about it. In ladies I always liked Mao Asada when I was little, I liked how she skated and jumped and connected everything in her program. I watched Yulia Lipnitskaya. I believe her Schindler’s List program is one of the best in figure skating ever. I could name many more figure skaters whom I followed or still follow, all of them have inspired me in some way.
Many thanks for the interview and continued success to you!
Note: Just like Russian, the German language has a polite/honorific form of address which the interviewer uses for Anna in this article.
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thank you very much!Не волнуйтесь, ваш немецкий, наверное, намного лучше моего русского.
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I liked the orange one..Those simple dresses simply suit Anna
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Anna's fangroup Team Shcherbakova gave Anna this gift, 4 custom baubles all based on her dresses. It includes her latest and fairly new SP dress. Anna also shared this in her instagram stories on 17.12.21, but they disappear after today.
In general, I am not a huge fan of fan gifts, no matter how nice the intention. It very often breeds fan entitlement, and often becomes an ego competition between fandoms. But anyway who cares what I think.
These though, are so thoughtful and beautiful. I am so glad to see Anna receive such a gift, honestly!
These though, are so thoughtful and beautiful. I am so glad to see Anna receive such a gift, honestly!
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Well, if Anna doesn’t want it she can give it to me. So I can then sell it to another Anna fan at inflated prices. Haha
Even better if she autographs it. I can get a bidding war started. Haha
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