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

I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.

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.

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

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

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.

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.