At the recent press conference, both Aliya and Vika gave short interviews. You can finds videos of them and the ROC's website.
Olesya Mikheeva has found time to provide some translations - thank you!!
Aliya's Interview.
“Operation was done on November 3rd, so about 3 weeks ago, so now I’m recovering/rehabilitating until December 7th, I’m not allowed to jump/run/go upstairs, I’m still wearing a cast. This is the last week of this. After that, I will start a more difficult recovery to build muscles, rehabilitate so in February I can get back to jumping. “
The interviewer asks about her injury and she says she had a meniscus injury. (don’t know how to translate the details)
When can you start training again?
“I think I’ll start training again when I’m out of the hospital because I’m still concurrently rehabilitating my back so until the New Year I will be doing that.”
The interviewer asks something about the judging and Aliya gives a quote, but I’m not quite sure how to translate it. Then he asks if she’s ever been to Brazil and she says “I’ve never been to Brazil, but I want to. Of course I want to.”
“Operation was done on November 3rd, so about 3 weeks ago, so now I’m recovering/
The interviewer asks about her injury and she says she had a meniscus injury. (don’t know how to translate the details)
When can you start training again?
“I think I’ll start training again when I’m out of the hospital because I’m still concurrently rehabilitating my back so until the New Year I will be doing that.”
The interviewer asks something about the judging and Aliya gives a quote, but I’m not quite sure how to translate it. Then he asks if she’s ever been to Brazil and she says “I’ve never been to Brazil, but I want to. Of course I want to.”
Viktoria's interview
About herself on the team in 2015:
“Well without saying, this was my best year because I was finally able to compete, in the European Games we took 1st as a team, unfortunately I wasn’t able to compete individually because it was only 1 per country, and of course the world championships. Of course the world championships didn’t start out too well, in the team competition I performed poorly, there’s not much to hide there, but we finished well, even with gold medals, there were even 4 gold medals, first time in history, that was something incredible.
About returning to the team:
“It was very difficult to return because I didn’t compete for 3 years, those were the very worst years of my life because it was just training and then injuries and there was no more desire because I was preparing and then getting injured right away. I wanted to quit and I tried to quit more than once to be honest, but the Olympics gave me the push to keep going.”
Who impacted your decision to keep going or was it just you?
“Well of course my parents and I myself…. well actually I kind of quit at home, and then Andrey called me and told me to come back right away in 2 days to Lake Krugloye and there I started training slowly and slowly developed a desire again slowly. Also I had fought with my coach and then when I had gotten back into shape I called my coach and said I was ready to work and let’s forget about it and so that’s how I got back on the team.”
About Olympics in Rio
“I have the moral strength, I want to go there, we could say this is my last chance to go because after that I won’t be able to, I’ll be somewhat old for gymnastics. Well of course I want to hope for the best but I don’t want to guess because it’s pointless because anything can happen at the Olympics.”
On life outside of sport
“I rarely have time outside of sport, but I like to sew.” She continues to talk about details related to sewing or types of sewing I’m not sure that she enjoys. “I like to hang out with friends, go to movies, or just hang out. This year we saw on the internet that there would be a meteor shower and went and watched it which was really cool, out in the open air with friends, what could be better.”
What about personal life?
“For now, just sport, I don’t think about personal life for now, first I need to get everything out of sport and then attend to personal life.”
About herself on the team in 2015:
“Well without saying, this was my best year because I was finally able to compete, in the European Games we took 1st as a team, unfortunately I wasn’t able to compete individually because it was only 1 per country, and of course the world championships. Of course the world championships didn’t start out too well, in the team competition I performed poorly, there’s not much to hide there, but we finished well, even with gold medals, there were even 4 gold medals, first time in history, that was something incredible.
About returning to the team:
“It was very difficult to return because I didn’t compete for 3 years, those were the very worst years of my life because it was just training and then injuries and there was no more desire because I was preparing and then getting injured right away. I wanted to quit and I tried to quit more than once to be honest, but the Olympics gave me the push to keep going.”
Who impacted your decision to keep going or was it just you?
“Well of course my parents and I myself…. well actually I kind of quit at home, and then Andrey called me and told me to come back right away in 2 days to Lake Krugloye and there I started training slowly and slowly developed a desire again slowly. Also I had fought with my coach and then when I had gotten back into shape I called my coach and said I was ready to work and let’s forget about it and so that’s how I got back on the team.”
About Olympics in Rio
“I have the moral strength, I want to go there, we could say this is my last chance to go because after that I won’t be able to, I’ll be somewhat old for gymnastics. Well of course I want to hope for the best but I don’t want to guess because it’s pointless because anything can happen at the Olympics.”
On life outside of sport
“I rarely have time outside of sport, but I like to sew.” She continues to talk about details related to sewing or types of sewing I’m not sure that she enjoys. “I like to hang out with friends, go to movies, or just hang out. This year we saw on the internet that there would be a meteor shower and went and watched it which was really cool, out in the open air with friends, what could be better.”
What about personal life?
“For now, just sport, I don’t think about personal life for now, first I need to get everything out of sport and then attend to personal life.”
Aliya - http://olympic.ru/news/interview/aliia-mustafina-vse-chto-ni-delaetsia-vse-k/
Viktoria - http://olympic.ru/news/interview/viktoriia-komova/
Good luck, girls!