– Usually they ask “how did you spend your summer”, but everything is clear with your summer – there were beginnings. How did you relax in the fall?
– My friends and I had a great time, went out of town – to the park, above St. Petersburg, in the north, we climbed on the insurance. It was fun. I like to spend weekends with friends – it rarely happens, but here I had a great rest. Then there was a recovery camp in Kabardinka, slowly began to prepare for the lack of water, then there was Krugloye.
– Have you thought about relaxing and letting go in the second half of the season?
– Not really. I want to start and I certainly don’t want to rest. I want to work and swim even faster. I stayed home for a week and was bored. With pleasure I returned to the swimming pool and to school.
– How are things at school?
– I want to shed a tear. I am preparing for the exam and it is very difficult. I rent heavy items, I’m very busy. Sometimes, because of the loads, I come after training, I go to bed and I don’t understand at all how I can get strength for webinars, how to start preparing. I think, what should I do about it? It’s hard to match. At school, sometimes they ask a lot, even in the subjects I don’t pass. But after all, everything must arrive on time, everything must be done. They try to help me, but at least I have to do everything myself, no matter what.
“Usually something good happens after exams and it’s called graduation.
“I haven’t even thought of that yet!”
– And the dress?
– I haven’t thought of that either. I’m not at all sure if I was in St. Petersburg at that time. So, as usual, everything will be decided closer to the main thing.
– Have you looked at the results of other autumn competitions?
– I saw the results, I didn’t watch the shows. You score a few seconds for yourself and that motivates you not to chill, not to miss the season. I’m really in charge of swimming fast, I want to reach a new level. It really motivates me a lot.
– When we talked to you in the summer, you had a fairly busy schedule for departures and there was no time to get bored. And how was it during the autumn holidays?
– Of course, there was a moment when I felt a bit sad – what’s next is unclear, the future is unclear, it’s depressing. But you can swim fast in Russia, can’t you? Especially all this suspension news, I’m not reading the dismissal, if that’s obvious to me.
– Social networks don’t throw that away?
– Nope. Everything is calm.
– Vladimir Valeryevich Salnikov announced that the first stage of the Russian Cup will be held in Sakhalin. Do you want to perform there and in general visit such a distant point from Russia?
“Honestly, I was delighted with this news. I have already been to Vladivostok, I liked it there a lot and I would also like to visit Sakhalin. I don’t know yet what my training plan will be, but I think geography should expand – it’s important for us athletes, it’s more fun I like Kazan, I like to play there, I’m not bored, but I also want swim in new cities.
Source : MatchTV
