I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want.
The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a pers...
I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.
People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!
And, of course, method is very important as is a high-quality specialist (trainer) working with you to keep you going in the right direction for your improvement and to help create results.
The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved.
Of course, the psychological part, the tactics, is very important.
Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk.
I began with track and field because this is what I know.
We started with that, basically to help kids, and then we created a pole vault school, which is part of the club and exists to this day. The club and school exist.
The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen.
I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.
My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region.
Sports life is very short.
I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches.
You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily.
I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day.
I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.
My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club.
Even now I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.
