Anna Pogorilaya said that her three-year-old daughter Eva was engaged in figure skating

Winner of the World and European Figure Skating Championships, coach Anna Pogorilaya told that her daughter Eva began to take up figure skating.

Anna is married to former figure skater Andrei Nevsky. Eva was born in 2020. On January 20, the athlete announced her second pregnancy.

— Would you like your children to learn figure skating?

– Only if the child himself asks for it. Eva wanted it, we decided to put her on skates, we brought them back from Canada. We work with her slowly, under our supervision, she goes out with young children, begins to walk on the ice and gets used to it.

I don’t really know how to educate my child. I want my children to go to gymnastics first, to strengthen their bodies – it develops them overall. And then get into whatever sport they want. If they tell me, “I want to be a figure skater,” I won’t be against it. When I was a child, my parents also gave me a choice. Eva is a very conscious child; if she doesn’t want to do something, she won’t do it.

— How objective can you be about your child as a coach?

– I thought about it. It’s difficult to be objective, I will be even stricter towards my family. She’s my child, I want her to achieve something. If she wants to try another sport or another direction, I will only be happy. When children of famous parents start studying, there is automatically a certain stigma and high expectations. I don’t understand how this is related.

It’s hard for me to guess, especially since Eva is only three years old.

— However, Eva begins to take up figure skating. Do you have any dreams in terms of the girl’s achievements?

– No. I dream of her developing romantically. I don’t want to break a child’s psyche with my dream. There are many examples when parents really wanted their child to become a figure skater, but the children themselves did not need this. It only hurts everyone,” Pogorilaya said in an interview with .

Pogorilaya, 25, is a bronze medalist at the World Championships (2016), silver and two-time bronze medalist at the European Championships.