interview with Elizabet and her mom, any kind soul willing to translate? :luv17:
I understood parts of it. My Russian isn't perfect so didn't catch everything, but I can try to summarise with a very loose translation.
At the start they talk about when she first started skating, she says her mother got her into it and bought her skates. Her brother started skating first, I think she says they started skating when they were around 4-5 years old (to me it sounded like she said she's been skating for 5 years, but that can't be right, haha). Her mother then talks a bit about how she always liked to watch figure skating, forgot about it a bit when her kids were born, then they were walking past the rink one day and she went and checked it out and decided to put her son in skating. She says Elizabet needed to improve her physical form, so she also started skating.
Then the interviewer asks if she remembers her first victory in skating, Elizabet says she doesn't really remember, she was so young, but she remembers feeling very happy with her first performance and her first medal. The interviewer then says that some athletes say "Every time is like the first time" (in regard to skating performances, obviously) and asks if she agrees. Liza says that even though she's done many competitions, she still gets a bit nervous, and overall she agrees this phrase is correct, every time is like the first.
They talk about what a figure skater is feeling during a competition, didn't catch all of it but Elizabet says during the program they kind of do everything automatically, and just keep going forward. I think she says she doesn't believe in superstitions/rituals before competitions, she doesn't have a talisman. She only believes in herself.
The interviewer says people have been calling her the "Princess of Ice" and asks if it's easy to bear this title (?). Elizabet says she tries not to think about it, that it's nice but she hopes that Kazakhstan will have more figure skaters, and that there will be "many princesses" (awww). She is then asked if she thinks it's harder to rise to the podium or to retain a title, and says it's harder to retain it, then changes her mind, says something about how scores are higher if you skate well consistently and that it's harder to rise to a high level.
They ask if she has an idol/someone she skates like, she says she wants to have her own style but really admires Yuna Kim, that Yuna skates so easily and she really likes her. They discuss training hours - when she's preparing for a competition, two training sessions a day (?? kind of missed her answer). She says she skates less in summer and does more physical training.
Then her mother talks for a little bit and none of what I understood made sense to me

but I think in part of it she says she believes it's important for every child to have a go at doing everything - sport, drawing, etc and should spend time outside. Something about love, something about when she was 14 years old, something about Samara where she grew up but it kind of went right over my head.
Elizabet then talks about balancing skating with school, it's hard because she has a lot of competitions. She hasn't decided what to do as a career after/apart from skating, but something to do with sport. Also talks about playing the violin, she finished musical school and also played a bit of piano. She still tries to retain this. Her mother says this is in her genetics. The interviewer says something about the Olympics and asks which program she is preparing for the Olympics, explains that it's not a new program for every competition, she gets a new program every year/two years.
Liza says she likes to cook & experiment. She cooks for her family, her brother rates her dishes.
It's getting late and I need to go to bed, there were a few things I left out (and probably some mistakes in the translation! As I said, my Russian is dodgy) but hopefully that kind of gives the gist of it.
