Tatiana Volosozhar & Maxim Trankov

[aceiel]

(Hi! I just recently signed up to the forum so I am new but i've been
keeping up with this thread for a while now- I love it so much~) Thank you so much for all this information guys! KinoriH that interview is great thank you for sharing! I love their extra long interviews cause they always end up sharing something new or adorable about themselves
Speaking of long interviews, I saw way back at the start of this thread someone posted a three part documentary that aired about them where they said the sweetest things about each other- i've always wanted to watch it for so long but the site says the video is unavailable! (probably because im from the UK) Does anyone know where I could view it? I love these videos because I can usually use quotes from them in fan-videos or graphics, they're just too great~

 

[kinoriH]

(Hi! I just recently signed up to the forum so I am new but i've been
keeping up with this thread for a while now- I love it so much~) Thank you so much for all this information guys! KinoriH that interview is great thank you for sharing! I love their extra long interviews cause they always end up sharing something new or adorable about themselves
Speaking of long interviews, I saw way back at the start of this thread someone posted a three part documentary that aired about them where they said the sweetest things about each other- i've always wanted to watch it for so long but the site says the video is unavailable! (probably because im from the UK) Does anyone know where I could view it? I love these videos because I can usually use quotes from them in fan-videos or graphics, they're just too great~

Welcome to this thread aceiel! are the one who has that awesome tumblr page about V/T? I looove it so much!

I have a link to that documentary on my computer. I'll post it here when i get home, okay?

 

[aceiel]

Yep that's me!! aww thanks im glad you like~
Oh wow that would be so great thank you so much, you're a saint! I just hope I can view it in the UK here finally

 

[kinoriH]

aceiel - here's a link to the documentary. I hope it's not blocked (here in Israel it isn't, so I think it'll be fine for you).



http://www.1tv.ru/documentary/fi=8287

 

[aceiel]

Ahhh it's working perfectly over here, i'll watch it right now! (again, thank you this is so great, i've been looking for weeks!)

 

[kinoriH]

BTW, there's a new, short interview with Maria Mukhortova, Maxim's former partner. http://www.sports.ru/others/figure-skating/1030549010.html

The main parts:

- She watched V/T Olympic LP while on tour in South Africa.
- When she saw Max and Tanya getting ready to go on the ice, she finally realised she has no hard feelings or resentment towards Maxim.
- She watched the LP in the dressing room, before a show, and while V/T did their jumps she couldn't stay still and understood what a big deal it is for Maxim, especially.

The full interview: http://m.sport-express.ru/articles/showarticle.wtm?artid=803172

 

[aceiel]

Wow, that would have been quite difficult to do considering the feud they had and how bad the ending of their partnership was years ago. I suppose the feelings would have healed in time and im glad there are no negative feelings on her side now bless. I do wonder how Maxim feels about her now though. Back then he said she will always have a special place in his heart but that he had to move on in the sport...

 

[monwara]

Thank you for your information. I also found this interview in English in this
http://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/ind...nd-i-had-no-chance-to-win-in-vancouver.95810/

 

[borzaya]

NEW (40 minutes!) interview with Tatiana and Maxim from the show "Пока все дома" which was aired today.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWQbwPkSKoE

The translation of the main highlights of the first half of it:

They talked a bit about Dexter, their dog. Tanya told the interviewer that she got him as soon as she came to Russia, and that he is 5 years old. The interviewer asked if it's difficult for them to keep a dog, as they travel so much, go to competitions etc. They said that if they have to go somewhere abroad they often have to leave him with their moms or with Tanya's sister. But in general Dex likes very much to be with them, they usually take him anywhere, even to the movies, for example, because he climbs into the bag and sits there quietly, and nobody would even notice that they have come with a dog.

The interviewer asked how they came to skate together, how they got to know each other for the first time.
They told that many people were talking even back in 2006 that it would be a very interesting and strong pair if they come to skate together, but it didn't happen that year, that happened only after the Vancouver Olympics.
They met each other for the first time in 2003 at the junior competitions, Max skated with Maria Mukhortova, and Tanya skated with her first partner, Petr Kharchenko. It was Maria who introduced them to each other, Maria and Tanya were friends at that time.

Their relations were developing little by little. They liked each other since they began to work together, when they had to make a lot of documents and go around a lot of offices, when Tanya was getting the Russian citizenship. They liked to talk to each other, were spending much time together, though at that time they were just good friends and partners, and Max wasn't even thinking then that they could be a couple. Their personal relationships began about two years after their skating together. But even before that it was constantly rumoured by fans that they had personal relations, even at that time when they hadn't.

Max was saying the same things that he said at the commentary of the Worlds, that the pair skating nowadays tends to be not really "pair", and focuses too much on side-by-side jumps and side-by-side skating, and the top pairs now don't pay enough attention to complicated lifts and other pair elements. He also said that in general the pair skating is often disregarded nowadays, though it's the most technically complicated discipline of figure skating - for example, at the Euros the pair LP was put to the Sunday morning, after all the other skaters had already had the closing banquet.

Max also said that he doesn't have such a habit to keep some memorable things from the competitions and so on, for example, he threw away the skates in which he was skating at the Olympics, and he was not planning to keep them as 'keepsakes'. He even keeps all his medals at his mother's, because he feels that it should kind of make him more 'hungry' for the new medals, if he doesn't focus on the medals that he already has.

Tanya goes to the University now, she studies sports management. The interviewer asked if they are planning to be coaches. Tanya said that she would rather prefer being a manager, doing some organizational stuff. Max also said that he doesn't feel like being a coach, but rather a choreographer or a coach assistant. He said that to be a coach it's necessary to know many things that he hadn't studied - biomechanics, biorhythms - he discribed how Nina Mozer plans their trainings taking all this into account, and said that he doesn't know these things thoroughly enough to be a coach.

They were asked what they want to do, but putting away for later, they said that it's having a baby, they would like to, but as they are planning to compete till the next Olympics, they can't afford this yet.

They are also preparing a house to live, though they often don't have enough time. Tanya oversees and manages the furnishing of the house and arranging everything, Max doesn't go into it too much, he said that he fully trusts Tanya to do it.

 

[borzaya]

http://www.goldenskate.com/forum/sh...osozhar-amp-Maxim-Trankov&p=836821#post836821

Guys, I have just finished up updating Tatiana & Maxim's OP. There is so much info available for them, that it took a long time, but well worth the effort! Please have a look! I hope you will find a few things you have not seen. And if there are any omissions or corrections needed, please tell me?

Thank you!

That's absolutely great! :thumbsup: An enormous amount of information. Thank you very much! :yes:
The only thing is that only Tatiana's social media are given. Here are Maxim's accounts: Instagram - https://instagram.com/xam_trankov/ VK - https://vk.com/id61337159

 

[Devochka]

Whoohoo! Thank you @borzaya! I was hoping someone would translate that interview.

Welcome @aceiel!

I just saw the Grand Prix assignments and I'm so excited for V/T! It feels like forever since I've been graced by their beautiful skating (even if I saw the FOI videos, lol). Now it's a real competition (sorry D/R).

 

[kinoriH]

Now it's a real competition (sorry D/R).

No need to be sorry. I personally can't wait till next season and see all of my favorite russian couples compete again- V/T, S/K and T/M. Nothing matches their elegance, attitude and technique, yes, even a quad lutz.
OCTOBER CAN U PLEASE BE HERE ALREAY.

 

[aceiel]

Im really interested to see if D/R can actually carry off the quad lutz, I really dont know a lot about the technicalities of the sport but I've read it can potentially be costly if there is an error? Regardless im proud of Tania and Max sticking to their guns and refusing to do it on the principle of not wanting to injure each other and not /too far/ with technical elements- so it will certainly be a fascinating season to say the least! Do you think compared to the other pairs they're competing against this year in the Trophée Bompard and the NHK they're likely to get on the podium? (Im not saying win gold cause we dont know their programs yet aha)

 

[Nessie]

http://www.goldenskate.com/forum/sh...osozhar-amp-Maxim-Trankov&p=836821#post836821

Guys, I have just finished up updating Tatiana & Maxim's OP. There is so much info available for them, that it took a long time, but well worth the effort! Please have a look! I hope you will find a few things you have not seen. And if there are any omissions or corrections needed, please tell me?

Thank you!

What a huge amount of work! You are a saint. Thank you for all of this -- I hope I can find the time to go through everything you've rounded up. Thanks again.

 

[dorispulaski]

You're welcome :

 

[eli60056]

Im really interested to see if D/R can actually carry off the quad lutz, I really dont know a lot about the technicalities of the sport but I've read it can potentially be costly if there is an error? Regardless im proud of Tania and Max sticking to their guns and refusing to do it on the principle of not wanting to injure each other and not /too far/ with technical elements- so it will certainly be a fascinating season to say the least! Do you think compared to the other pairs they're competing against this year in the Trophée Bompard and the NHK they're likely to get on the podium? (Im not saying win gold cause we dont know their programs yet aha)

They are the last year's Olympic Gold Medalists-they are more than likely to be at the very top of the podium IMO.

 

[aceiel]

They are the last year's Olympic Gold Medalists-they are more than likely to be at the very top of the podium IMO.

Oh of course, I probably should have wrote if they were likely to be on the very top of the podium yeah I wonder how missing out the last season there + Maxim’s rehab will affect them in contests, their EX programs seem to have gone well, and they're keeping the programs they had practised last year too so I dont think they'll have lost their spark in the least. Im just curious as to how they’ll shape up to the other pairs and their advancements, really

 

[eli60056]

I don't know about their new programs and what they are like because it is still a well kept secret, but I can see that the ISU had to raise the basic values of the elements in order for anyone to have a flying chance to even reach the record scores that V/T had during the Olympic year. So far no one has come close to them.

 

[borzaya]

Continuation of the interview
The rest of the interview was mostly about their parents. Tanya told that she was taken to the rink for the first time when she was 4. Her parents at that time were going to the rink as well, for fun and for physical exercise, and took little Tanya with them. She was a lively and energetic child, and she liked skating at once.

Max, when he was a kid, didn't like skating at all, it was his parents' wish (mostly his dad's). He also said that, in fact, it was his elder brother Alexei's idea (when he saw a note about accepting children to a figure skating school) to suggest this idea to their parents, to send Max to figure skating (so that Alexei didn't have to sit with him and look after him ). As for Max's brother, he was going in for skiing when he was a kid, but he didn't become an athlete eventually, but became a scholar, a philologist.

There was said about Max's dad, that he had been an athlete himself, an equestrian, and that it had been his dream to win the Olympics, he had got to the Olympic team twice, but due to different circumstances, never got a chance to go to the Olympics. Max was asked why his dad hadn't wanted Max to go in for equestrian sport as well, and Max said that even nowadays this sport is not so developed, and only the well-off people can go in for it, and at the time of Max's childhood this sport was absolutely in decay.

They talked, of course, about how Max's dad had died, that it happened all of a sudden, when he went to another city. Max said that they tried to dissuade him from going there alone, and even his car, which always worked smoothly, for some reason didn't start that day, so that he had to take Max's car. And Max and Tanya had to go to skate at the Euros the following day, and Max and his brother decided that he should go, because their dad would've wanted him to go. Max also said that for half a year after that he had a feeling as if his dad was still around, as if he was feeling his presence, and this feeling comforted and supported him.

Max said that he talks over the phone with his mom almost every day, and Tanya phones her parents almost as often, too; besides, her mom and her sister often come to visit her.

(The very last part of the video, about 7 minutes, is not about V/T. It's the tradition of this tv show (which is considered as a family show) that the main part is the interview with this or that celebrity, and the last several minutes feature some children from orphanages, to attract the attention of the audience, so that maybe smb would adopt them. So the interview with Tanya and Max finishes at about 31 minute.)

 

[Nessie]

Continuation of the interview
The rest of the interview was mostly about their parents. Tanya told that she was taken to the rink for the first time when she was 4. Her parents at that time were going to the rink as well, for fun and for physical exercise, and took little Tanya with them. She was a lively and energetic child, and she liked skating at once.

Max, when he was a kid, didn't like skating at all, it was his parents' wish (mostly his dad's). He also said that, in fact, it was his elder brother Alexei's idea (when he saw a note about accepting children to a figure skating school) to suggest this idea to their parents, to send Max to figure skating (so that Alexei didn't have to sit with him and look after him ). As for Max's brother, he was going in for skiing when he was a kid, but he didn't become an athlete eventually, but became a scholar, a philologist.

There was said about Max's dad, that he had been an athlete himself, an equestrian, and that it had been his dream to win the Olympics, he had got to the Olympic team twice, but due to different circumstances, never got a chance to go to the Olympics. Max was asked why his dad hadn't wanted Max to go in for equestrian sport as well, and Max said that even nowadays this sport is not so developed, and only the well-off people can go in for it, and at the time of Max's childhood this sport was absolutely in decay.

They talked, of course, about how Max's dad had died, that it happened all of a sudden, when he went to another city. Max said that they tried to dissuade him from going there alone, and even his car, which always worked smoothly, for some reason didn't start that day, so that he had to take Max's car. And Max and Tanya had to go to skate at the Euros the following day, and Max and his brother decided that he should go, because their dad would've wanted him to go. Max also said that for half a year after that he had a feeling as if his dad was still around, as if he was feeling his presence, and this feeling comforted and supported him.

Max said that he talks over the phone with his mom almost every day, and Tanya phones her parents almost as often, too; besides, her mom and her sister often come to visit her.

(The very last part of the video, about 7 minutes, is not about V/T. It's the tradition of this tv show (which is considered as a family show) that the main part is the interview with this or that celebrity, and the last several minutes feature some children from orphanages, to attract the attention of the audience, so that maybe smb would adopt them. So the interview with Tanya and Max finishes at about 31 minute.)

Very kind of you to provide this translation. I watched the documentaries and still got something out of them -- but of course no details. So we are grateful.