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.

I love the pole vault because it is a professor's sport. One must not only run and jump, but one must think. Which pole to use, which height to jump, which strategy to use. I love it because the results are immediate and the strongest is the winner. Everyone knows it. In everyday life that is difficult to prove.

The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved.

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

You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily.

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