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.
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.
I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.
I began with track and field because this is what I know.