So funny, interesting
i love him))
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Interview with Weir `Deep down I'm an old Russian Lady'by Slava Malamud
6 June 2012
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SM: What if you don't care about the winning and the competition anymore?
JW: I never really cared at the first place.
I'm not like Pluschenko, who fights for his life on every competition. Perhaps because he is a Russian and I'm an American and we don't have to, unlike you, Russians to fight and suffer for everything.
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A shower for me, a platinum gold to Pluschenko.SM: If the judging wasn't biased in what place would you finish in the 2010 Olympics?
JW: Wow... you know how long it took me to watch the other's skates? I was heartbroken after Vancouver. ...... After 7-8 months I calmed down enough to watch the skating. I think I should had finished 3rd in Vancouver.
SM: It seemed you were less disappointed than Pluschenko.
JW: You bet.
SM: How did you take his reaction - that he deserved a platinum medal etc?
JW: Figure skating takes your whole life. Pluschneko rested for 3 years after Torino and if he came back it was probably not for the silver, right? So if it's the only thing you aim for, the only thing you wake up thinking in the morning and you don't get it... anyone would be upset.
I'm actually much closer to Evgeny than to Evan Lysacek and I cheer for him. Of course as far as the USA PR goes he did some damage. But everyone deals with the disappointments in their own way. Galina (Zmievskaya) after I had finished 6th went to McDonalds and eat chips. To do something like that she has to be really depressed. I went crying in the shower. Evgeny spoke about a platinum medal.
("he spoke"??? ) Everyone and whatever calms them down.
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SM: So now you are back to figure skating. Do you think your odds are higher? The judges became more liberal?
JW: I thinks so. I hope so. If not -well, hey ho. By the way, the federation treats me better than ever. Guess they realize I'm the only one who can keep the figure skating popular in the USA. Evan won the Olympics but no one has a clue who is he. Yes. I can make our sport popular again..
(poor Evan ).....
SM: Do you think you might make the judges like you?
JW: It's going to be hard.
It's hard to Pluschenko, but he came back. I'm not nearly as popular as Zhenya in Russia. Though I have nothing to complain - I am loved and appreciated in the USA overall, the federation knows it and needs me.
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MS: The favourite Russian athlete?
JW: Evgeny Pluschenko , Irina Slutskaya, the gymnast Sveltlana Khorkina. I adore her, she is a diva.
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Here is a whole interview.
viewtopic.php?f=4&p=70251#p70260Original source
http://winter.sport-express.ru/figuresk ... ews/22365/Translated one
http://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/showpos ... ostcount=1