My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region.

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 person.

The Olympics are always a special competition. It is very difficult to predict what will happen.

Even now, I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.

Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk.

My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region.

I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day.