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

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.

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

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

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

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

First do it, then say it.