Thank you for the links! I love this quote from the third article (excuse the poor Google translation):
"They create that figure skating is no longer estimated as element or may not receive. You stand and you feel that you are going goose bumps, and get pleasure from what you see it every day. People see something this competition only 8-10 times a year, and I see it every day! It is happiness!"
I agree it would be pure happiness to get to see Max and Tanya skate every day.
I think it goes like this:
"They create the kind of figure skating that is no longer judged by whether the element has been executed or not. You stand there and feel goosebumps and take pleasure in the fact that you see this every day. People see this at competitions only 8-10 per year. But I see it every day. That is happiness."
There was another place where she said that it would be very difficult for her to continue after T/M retire because basically she has seen the best.
She also says in another piece that there was a moment in 2011 when she and Max were at odds due to some disagreement between them (she did not say what exactly) and they were not talking to each other. Then Tania, always the peacemaker, got them together and told them that she loves them both very much. And that was the end of the disagreement.
She also says that there is a division of labor in the group, where Tania talks more during practices and Max tries to contain himself from talking before competition, so that is why they give him free reign to talk afterwards on press conferences. That was in answer to the journalist's question about Tania not talking all that much. It turns out she talks enough at other times
. Regarding Tania's talking I think she has no problem with public speech whatsoever and in the early days I have seen her reaching for the microphone and answer, but I think she learned early on that Max likes to share his opinion and left that chore to him.
She now only talks if he is lost for words or unable/unwilling for some reason, as in after the EC when his father died. But in general I have seen him answer even questions that are directly put to her.
I love those two also!
