Maria Minaeva is one of the main losers of the Russian Championships held in Kazan in the spring, where the athlete failed all approaches to the uneven bars – both in qualification, in the all-around final and in the final on the projectile . Then it seemed that Maria wanted to win everything or almost too much, and as a result she “burned out”.
In Kaluga, during the Russian Cup, the athlete went through the tournament with much more confidence, only making a mistake on the unfortunate uneven bars on the first day. As a result – bronze in the all-around, plus bronze in the uneven bars final. At the same time, during the warm-up for the jump, Maria did not look healthy at all, quite the contrary.
– Even during testing, the heavily taped right foot for the jump drew attention to itself. Wound?
– The injury was once, and I assure it just out of habit. But at the moment everything is fine, the leg does not hurt.
– Did you notice that on the take-off run of the reference, even your legs move asymmetrically, you seem to be limping?
– Yes, and when I start, it seems that everything is fine, like everyone else. But in the video, I notice that one leg seems to be touching the surface now. But it does not affect the race.
– Here you are third in the general competition, third in the final on the uneven bars. Are these the places and notes you’ve been looking for?
– Here I really wanted to do bars, because in Kazan, at the Russian Championships, they did not work for me for all three days. There were also qualifying issues here, but everything went well in the all-around final and the uneven bars final.
– Rodionenko in Kazan complained that the reason for failures in the Chechen Republic was the overstated expectations of others and yourself. Accept?
– Maybe I wanted to do it too much, my emotions were overflowing. You have to do like in training, then everything will be fine. In fact, it may have burned out.
– What did you do after the Chechen Republic in preparation for this departure, so as not to miss the bars again?
– I changed the combination after the Czech Republic, I started to make another group, which suited me better. The second part of the exercise became easier to do, we decided to stop there. But the second item didn’t work for me, I tried, at some point it started working, I inserted it into the program, then slowly worked. In the future, you can increase the difficulty base a bit more by performing another takedown and the second half of the suit.
– Do you plan to complicate other types?
– I have an old jump here, a screw and a half. I will of course try two screws, but at the moment there are only one and a half. On beam and freestyle, there is also room to progress, to change the same acrobatics, turns.
– Does this give us a chance to hope that at the Spartakiad we will see your full-fledged fight with Melnikova and Listunova in the all-around?
“I’ll try, I hope everything will be fine,” Minaeva told .
Source : MatchTV
