MOSCOW, July 23, Sergey Yaremenko.The 2022 Olympic champion in figure skating Anna Shcherbakova at the VK Fest talked about how sometimes parents push their child into sports to satisfy their ambitions. «No one in the family was a professional athlete. Parents were focused on their studies, graduated from Moscow State University. Always education was in the first place. There were never any plans for a professional career for my sister and I. We were sent to sports for general development. I was always made to understand that studies come first, and if you have to choose between figure skating and studies, you have to choose studies «When they realized that figure skating is not just a hobby, they taught me to combine study and sports. They never gave me the opportunity to make a choice only in favor of sports. Studying has always been important — thanks to my parents for that,» Shcherbakova said. «I know many stories that parents so passionate about sports that sometimes they do not notice the desires of the child.Push him, satisfying their ambitions.My parents never tried to train me — three ner is on ice. Parents just supported morally. Before coming to Eteri Georgievna, there was a conversation with my mother about the end of her career. It was not the most successful season, but just had the opportunity to enter. They raised the question of the need for figure skating. Said I needed it to the core. Mom said let's try,» the figure skater added. «My first coach was Oksana Mikhailovna Bulycheva, and the first choreographer was Yulia Aleksandrovna Krasinskaya. I don’t remember everything from childhood training, but one piece of advice remained in my head for the rest of my career. The coach told me that he never scolds me for performances at competitions. Just parses errors. You can blame for mistakes in training, but competitions are the result of work. Then you can correct something. This cheered me up a lot. I still remember these words,» the Olympic champion said. The VK Fest in 2022 takes place in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Sochi.
