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

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.

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.

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.

I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want.