Shcherbakova: I watched the Games in Sochi and did not think that I would reach the same heights

SOCHI, July 10, Andrey Simonenko. Olympic champion in women's figure skating Russian Anna Shcherbakova admitted in an interview that when she watched the competitions of the 2014 Games in Sochi, she did not even think that she could reach the same heights. Shcherbakova won the Olympic gold medal at the Beijing Games, held in February 2022. In July, the figure skater performs in Ilya Averbukh's show «Champions», which takes place at the Iceberg Ice Palace in Sochi, where in 2014 the Russian figure skating team won three gold medals. Shcherbakova was then 10 years old. «I don’t remember everything from that trip, but the brightest moments are certainly. And I also remember how I saw this huge ice rink, spectator stands, competitions … Unforgettable impressions, and, of course, then «from the scale of the Olympic Games, and from my childhood perception, it seemed to me that this palace is ten times larger than I see it now. But, of course, in my soul I now have pride in the fact that I ride in the same arena,» said Shcherbakova — At the same moment I was watching the Olympics and did not even think that someday I would be able to reach such heights. I just watched and admired.