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

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.

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

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 focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.