Isinbaeva at Adidas press conference

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Isinbaeva at Adidas press conference

Unread postby BruceFlorman » Fri Aug 15, 2008 11:14 am

http://www.thenewsmarket.com/Assets/a** ... 3a879500e9
Evidently you need to be a registered news professional to be granted access to the video at this site. I tried to use my unofficial relationship with the editors at AllSport.ru to talk my way in, but it looks like that's not gonna fly. :( :crying:

Anyway, here's what they're listing as the (at least partial) transcript...
Q: Does being a champion put greater pressure on you?
“No I don’t have any pressure and I don’t feel any pressure because I know why I am here not because everybody expects something from me but because I want to defend my title. But not really defend but just to win it one more time, because everything I have done before I forget this, now I am like nobody and I should prove again who I am and fight like it is the first time.”

Q: Did you plan to break the world record in Rome this year?
“Yes because it was my first competition and I was hungry for all those journalists and all those people who start to talk in the wrong direction. I didn’t start my season then. Everybody start to say things I don’t like so that was my ‘proof-ment.’”

Q. Is the record a result of your changed technique?
“Because, before I had all things separate, but now I have all things together. My run up my plant my roll back everything so now I feel 100 percent good, or perfect maybe bout my jump.”

Q: Does it annoy you when the media make a big thing of Jennifer Stuczynski and others being a rival to your pole vault crown?
“I can stay quiet when they are right but when they are wrong why should I stay quiet? They say when she jump 4:90, ‘wow.’ But I jump this height four years ago. It is nothing special, now it is nothing. What is the reason why everybody is so, I don’t know, happy? When I do this jump every competition nobody cares about this, they say oh well it is Isinbayeva she can jump 5:20 we don’t care, but when they jump it is all ‘wow.’ This I don’t like.”

Q: What will happen to the painting you made?
“After the Olympic games in Beijing it is going to go to Hong Kong and it will sell in auction and the money will go to charity.”

Q: Why is it important for you to do something for Charity?
“It is just because I come from the beginning not from a poor family but a bit lower than the middle and so I know how it is to be needing money and not being able to buy what you want, if it is chocolate or something. So now that I earn everything that I have by myself and the sport give me everything I have, so now I have the possibility to share what I have with other people.”

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