“The first coach of the Olympic champion Shcherbakova revealed the secret of the figure skater’s success.
Figure skating coach Oksana Bulycheva is convinced that the athlete managed to win Olympic gold thanks to her fighting spirit. As the first coach of the future champion Oksana Bulycheva told Zvezda, Shcherbakova came to the training room at the age of three after her older sister. I got into the senior group, already then setting myself the goal of becoming better.
The day before, the figure skater did everything possible to show the maximum at the main start of the four years, and received well-deserved congratulations from the President of the country.
“At first she crawled in the hall, then they slowly let her out on the ice, she began to work out. A very big worker. She worked from childhood, she definitely had to catch up with the older girls ... She fought from childhood. She had a goal - to catch up with the group, to overtake, to do something more than others. She went to this goal since childhood, ”said Bulycheva.
In her opinion, from the very childhood it became clear that the skater had a great future. According to the coach, some elements were much better for the young athlete than for older teammates. “From the very beginning, she really wanted, that is, there were some elementary things that Anyuta succeeded much faster than girls who are two years older than her. It was clear from the very beginning that she would be an Olympic champion or not, but she was a fighter, she aspired and reached her peaks from the very beginning, ”added the coach.
Bulycheva is sure that Shcherbakova managed to win Olympic gold precisely because of her fighting character. The day before, the 17-year-old Russian woman, the reigning world champion, took first place in the singles tournament at the Beijing Olympics. The athlete in the free program submitted to the elements of ultra-si: a single quadruple flip and a quadruple flip in a cascade. The athlete scored 175.75 points for the rental and 255.95 points for both programs."