Vera, Dina and Arina Averin this year,
started the season as part of the main team of Russia. Tell us, please, which
way is behind this.
In previous seasons, they were still small,
were in juniors, and only on the second year the girls stand on the workshop
program. A junior, you know, is "the cat in the bag" when the child
is only growing, formed when puberty begins, it happens that everything
changes, so it was hard to tell. But I do not think that before they were in
the shadow of the leaders. They were not included in the Youth European Championship due to the
fact that there was a huge competition. After this tournament all the girls
from 1999 were dropped out, in general, all the girls were injured. Some
supposedly had a cursed year and has turned out simply everyone was injured:
someone's leg or arm, someone has appendicitis, and this has been an endless
series... And so at this time just Arina and Dina stepped forward. But, you
know, they still had to "swim to the surface," because in fact they
were very good. Firstly, they are smart, and secondly, such executive! For four
Olympic cycles - and I have 30 years of coaching time! - No offense to any of
my famous disciples I need to say I did not have such children.
- What sets among the sisters Averina?
- The sum of these children that like any
coach. Obedience is not perfect. I know that, coming out on the carpet, they
will do their best and maybe even more. When even mistakes happen, I cannot
blame them, because I know the sport - it's not dressmaking and sewing, then
enormous congestion. And besides, we have a very sophisticated kind, represent,
then the unprotected foot, jumping, flexibility, stretching, plus the need to
listen to music, have some unique elements... But it is necessary to do
something interesting, and not just a school choreography show. And they
believe in me, literally they trust. All this together these children
developed.
When they got to me, the girls were very
reticent, unsmiling, they were like two old ladies are right: do everything,
but did not speak. We have a very good psychologist in the team, Evgenia
Kuzminova that I once said, "Look, if you do not teach them to say a word,
you will not have good results." I began to ask Dina and Arina and why
there are so, and random things like "how do you sleep", "what
do you eat"? They were shocked, because, apparently, before nobody would
talk to them. Just need to put love in the child, then you will get everything.
- It's true... But it all began, perhaps not so
perfect, right?
- I once said to them: girls, wait - and we
will succeed. We started with the by going to
the doctors. Head coach Irina (Irina Viner) said: Check the
endocrinologist. When the twins were born, children are small in stature and
Dina and Arina were very. We have a very demanding sport: not only that it is
necessary to have a physical presence, you need to be more beautiful. In
Averina - face figurines - all good, but they were very small. And the doctor
told me that it is necessary to remove the 50% load. Agree, not every coach
will go to it! But I realized that there are children who do not have a lot of
work, which should be just all "over his head", they are well taught.
And we with them have decided that we will
follow the diet. And you know, they began to grow! Two years, they never grow
up, even when they were not with me. And when we began to work again, then five
growth. They were 138 cm and now they are 161 cm - this is our common victory.
- What kind of relationship do you have with
Dina and Arina?
- I trust a lot on them: they are not traitors.
And they also have complete trust in me: if I say that it should be, they
always do. I always explain to them how to behave, what to be thankful: you got
up today, and tomorrow you can fall, so you need to appreciate every day.
Morning got up - thank you very much that sunshine, that’s from this day
begins.
So everything came together: trust on the
ability to work and, of course, a unique knowledge of the subject. Even if you
tell them, so to speak, climbed in the right ear, and climbed through the left
leg, they can do all this and to carry out! We are changing the program
sometimes the day before the start, and it does not affect the performance.
For example, before the Moscow Grand Prix (less
than a week), when we changed the music in the routine, Irina said she was not
correspond to the program, and I know that she does not wish bad things, from
the outside it is more visible. And we changed the music - indeed, exercise has
become even better! But it is not what every child can do...
Therefore, even when the girls are small whims,
I do not pay attention. I never saw dirty socks, torn slippers, from Averina
always ideal objects. They remind me more and, in the evening send text
messages: "Vera, you have to bring something, do not forget to do
something!". I do not know why the cards do not communicate with the
electronics, so that all children can do it. And I always say, "What am I
going to do after they threw the gym?" This is when something happens, it
will be very difficult period, because I'm very comfortable with them, and now
want more, that has developed in the future. I do not know if they will achieve
very good results in rhythmic gymnastics, but what I feel good with them, I
know 100%.
- You get a whole team, and not just the coach
and gymnast, how does it works?
- It's true. Since its one person is always
very hard but I am always very sorry for coaches who have only one athlete. I
have never had one pupil! I always had a lot, and even now not just Dina and
Arina, I also work with Olesya Petrova, twice a European champion for juniors,
which then had an injurie... And I've got a pretty little girl, she just turned
9 years old. I want to grow it to these children to Averina, because what they
are able, no one knows how, is coordination at this level!
And I began to notice that when this little
athlete is next to them, it adds considerably. She had for his age is able to
do unique things, it has already the best in his age in Russia. She is born in
2007 - it seems that it is still almost a child chest, but in fact she was able
to do so much! I'm raising it especially on Dina and Arina Averina, said to
learn while they are alive (in, in sports, of course)! In general, we are a
real family.
- Probably among twins have developed strong
sisterhood?
- Dina and Arina are so self-sufficient, you
cannot imagine! They have their own little world, and they will not let anyone
go in. And I am very glad of it, because if there is somebody else in their
world, they would collapse. Plus they have a very good family, there is Mom and
Dad, who live entirely for these children. The sisters brought up properly.
They are after training every day with teachers engaged on Skype. I once told
them: "I do not need it." They passed the exams very well in the
senior class last year, enrolled in a sports institute. Averina went to school
when they were six years. Mom told them: "Vera, we just do not know where
to go from them". They still have a third sister, the eldest, Polina, who
had also engaged in gymnastics. There's a loving family, children grow in love,
in abundance, all for them.
- It's on the court immediately obvious, right?
- This is the mentality, because you cannot
work with disadvantaged kid so that he became the world champion in the Olympic
Games. Believe me, all the same it will affect the most inopportune moment!
Disadvantaged children, they can be the champions of the world in some other
sports, but if the child is not in love, if the child has a family and there is
to it ... are not in rhythmic gymnastics. Family - it's always a sequel, and I
always look where the child is. But, by the way, Averina came to me by chance
and I said that there is nothing accidental. Just once I arrived in 2011, the
year for a week in the Olympic Village and they were there, came out of his
Nizhny Novgorod on 10 days to try. They said that if there nobody will take,
they will end up with gymnastics, because growth has not been much, and they
have learnt in school is very good; they said that if a gym does not work out,
they will learn better. I saw them and I say - let's try. After I was trained
with them, I immediately asked myself the question: "And if I can have
without them?" And I realized that actually I can't. It will be a good
judge? - will not, but I get great pleasure from our everyday spent together.
- In the Olympic season, with two 17-year-old
talented gymnasts, you think about the prospects of whether to go to Rio de
Janeiro? Or aiming more at the next Olympic cycle?
- Do not think, honestly. I have
this year will be an anniversary - 50 years old, I started to work very early,
just 19 years old, and I can say that it is better not to think, how to please
God. A lot of things have changed for this year, but I still did not think they
want. They will represent the country, we can even get up at night and make
your exercise and we treat those athletes who are always ready. Minimum
injuries, a minimum of ambition and maximum diligence. That's what I can say
about Averina, so I do not think anything about any Olympics, and I wish only
the health of Yana Kudryavtseva, because it is a unique athlete. I'm very sick
of it, and Rita Mamun! This is a very interesting girl, and not just in life,
but it is "curiosity" in rhythmic gymnastics. I wish them the
Olympics from the heart but we all still have time. I have only to these girls
turned everything, but if all of a sudden, God forbid, and we will say (that we
should go), then why not. But no more, no. I'd like to see Yana, Rita, they are
worthy and they work very hard. A gold medal - no matter what the name will be
there - the main thing that our country was good.
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