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

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

People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!

I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.

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.

I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches

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.