Alena Kostornaia about trainings in the group of Eteri Tutberidze. Part from video interview for Russian Channel 1. Translation.
Aliona: We can have fun and fool around in training, but we still know why we came here and why do we need it (trainings).
All coaches joke, it is considered absolutely normal. And in training it can motivate you, but off the ice they can also say something, we can laugh.
At trainings Sergei Dudakov is focused and tries to help everyone right away, but in life he is quite a cheerful and positive person.
Daniil Gleichengauz can be funny, joke with you and cheer you up, but he can also scold quite a lot. There is no such thing that today he scolds you, praises tomorrow – depends how you work, so he will tell you.
When Eteri Georgievna comes to the ice – this is the maximum concentration, the maximum impact. The desire to make her athletes the best. And in life, this is a woman who has experienced a lot, coped with all the difficulties. It seems to me that I have never met a stronger person both in spirit and physically.
Any athlete from our group would like to grow into such a person like Eteri Tutberidze in the future. We try to do better, try to do more, because we understand that this is both our life and the life of our coaches.
If you do not care what will happen to you, at least think about how much time and effort coaches put into you in order to give at least what you have now.
We are called students of Tutberidze. This is also a kind of title. Because not every athlete can get here, not everyone can train here.
You must believe in yourself, especially in those moments when no one believes in you. There was a moment before I moved to Eteri Georgievna: I have never been on the podium of major competitions, and they always told me that I wouldn’t get there, that I was behind the top ten, totally average.
And at that moment I realized that I can, I want to win. Then I went to Eteri Georgievna and proved to many that everything can be changed.

Aliona: Would I do horse riding after figure skating? Yes. We love our sport, but most likely the maximum age (for competing) is about 21 years.
Figure skating is changing, new jumps are coming, adult women will not be physically able to learn elements that smaller girls jump.
Every day you have to improve, to improve yourself at every training session. Let it be small, hardly noticeable improvements, but they will be. It’s nice to get the result.
Any victory is overcoming of oneself. But in general, victory is gold. Silver and bronze – not the same thing. Gold means that you are the first, the best. The second and third place – well done, but the one who stands a place higher did better, and you lacked somewhere.
Don’t be jealous about the achievements of other athletes, go to your goal.
Me, Sasha Trusova and Anya Shcherbakova – we are all together. But at the same time, we are also perceived separately. Sasha is very stubborn, Anya is calm and intelligent. A lot of qualities are mixed in me, one cannot be singled out.
You start doing sports, go to competitions a couple of times and you can’t let it go anymore. There will be no more purpose in life. You train, show results, stand on the pedestal, and without figure skating you will stay at home, and none of this will happen – no trips to different countries, no medals.
If you once won something, then you won’t be able to refuse it. All that I want, I get thanks to figure skating.

飞天思想好成熟哇

讲得真好

思想与颜值均上线

很多20多岁的都不一定想的通

这赛季神仙打架，尤其是莎莎，一旦clean是令人绝望的分数，能调整好心态就是最好的了

飛天心態真好這樣的顏值，能力和態度太令我喜歡她了從尾二那句來看她對花滑有很大的熱情啊((每次看她的訪問都越來越喜歡她了

上进心，责任感，独立和清晰的头脑

楼上某位装千金粉丝的同学，不是diss过面姐吗？联最基本的“尊师重教”都做不到吗？

有的人又想挑起骂战，大家不要上当