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The guys are just back from the US and are having problems with the time difference between America and Russia.

Presenter: How have you been spending these first days back in Moscow, and how do you feel after such a great victory?

O: We don't have many problems with the time difference except for the fact that I can't sleep from 2 to 4 am.

P: Were you finally able to realise about your victory?
O: Yes, of course, and now I'm sitting here and I just can't stop smiling. Everyone is congratulating me, and now I am able to realise that I am really the world champion, and it feels rather great. When you  sit there in the 'kiss & cry' it's hard to process it all: you have no  feelings left, you have left it all there on the ice. You feel drained of emotions and there's nothing left inside of you, not even joy.

P: Oksana, you said that you would spend the days after the competition sunbathing. Did you manage to do it?
O: Oh, I really wanted to, but in the end I couldn't.
P: Why?
O: Because we had to do the gala and practice... It's kinda...
P: Maxim, how come you were the one to do all the talking during the competition, but here it's only Oksana who talks?
O: Maxim speaks English and I speak Russian.
M: Actually, I am quite surprised at Oksana being so talkative. I don't  even get the chance to say a word. She talks, and talks, and talks...
O: But you did all the talking in America....
P: Oksana, you still don't speak English?
O: I am shy. So...Maxim speaks well ...that's why...

P: How's life in America, training? Did you get used to it?
O: Come on, Maxim, you answer to that.
P: Yes, otherwise nobody is going to believe Maxim is really in the studio.
M: I can't really say we have completely adjusted. We haven't been in the US long enough to get accustomed to life
there. It will take longer to get used to...
P: (she interrupts) How long have you been living there?
M: Since July. I think it would take 3 or 4 years to adjust completely. Also, you need to be more actively involved in life there,
whereas we spend most of our time training at the rink or back at our places, and doing a little shopping. That's why we take it as a training camp not as...
O: Life.
M:...an attempt to adapt to life. Yes, not as life in America.
M: We live in a condominium. It's a complex where you can rent a flat. It's rather comfortable.
M: No, it's not like a training village. People with all sorts of jobs live there.
O: It's an ordinary village.
P: What do you do there?
M: We are training.

P: You've been training from July to April?
O: Sure, what else? That's why we went there, to train. Right now training is our life.
M: It's self restriction, we know. But we do it willingly, because we are aware that there is no other way to do it. If we want to achieve something, 90% of our time has to be spent training somehow.

P: You said that living in America has made you franker, friendlier, more open. There are no American journalists now, come on, tell us the truth...
M: Oh, I'm sure there must be some American journalists among the listeners. If I were to say that wasn't true, I would look like a hypocrite even to myself.
P: Well, you were happy for your victory, you would say anything...

M: But how could I say that, it wouldn't be true! I didn't lie, I really meant what I said!

O: I think everybody already knows we have a very good relationship. We rarely have arguments. Everything works smoothly and peacefully between us.
M: That's because we take good care of our relationship. Even when emotions run high, we try not to let them get to us.
O: There is no need to fight or scream at each other, when instead we can easily separate for a while, take a deep breath, and let things cool down peacefully. Who knows...find a mantra to relax...I like to think  "I'm a ball, I'm a big bouncing ball, no one can touch me... lah-de-dah! "

P: Have you had such a good relationship since the very beginning?
(O and M laugh)
M: Yes. Well, yes.

P: How would you describe each other?
(O & M s laughter)
O: Calm, easy-tempered, wise.

P: Dressed in summer trousers...

O: Dressed in summer trousers in wintertime!

M: Oh, but that's because I do not care about conventions...

M: Anyway, the same qualities go for Oksana, plus determination and, of course, beauty.

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O: No, we didn't get anything new from this World championship. It was a serious experience, but it will be a completely different competition at  the Olympic Games, another kind of tension.
M: It's nice that we won.

P: Everybody wanted to see your duel with the French. How seriously will you compete against the French, or is it just one more couple?
M: It's just one more couple.
O: It wasn't easier without the French. Whether they are at the Olympics or not, it won't make that much difference to us. There will be enough rivals there.
O: The first six couples are strong enough.
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About Virtue-Moir

M: Virtue-Moir are very gifted guys. But there have already been other couples whose praises were sung, and then what?
P: But they are Canadians in Canada.
M: So what? They were Americans in America.
M: Nobody knows what will happen. What's the use of talking about it now? They are very gifted guys, but we don't fear them.
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P: How do you get on with Belbin and Agosto? You always say you are great friends and...
O: Well, no...
M: No, we never said we are such great friends. We just say we are friends. But we don't say we are super сlose friends.
P: How can you be friends if you are rivals?
O: So what? We are rivals on the ice. We don't say we leave the ice rink and do things together, that we are always together. For me being friends means to do things together outside the ice rink, go places together, do shopping, meet, communicate.
P: You socialise with them?
O: No. We communicate on the ice, at the skating rink, in trainings.
O: No, in the condominium we don't meet.
M: Why? I do.
O: We have normal human relations. We are neither close friends nor enemies.
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About costumes.

O: We had a lot of them this season. We got them tailored everywhere: in Moscow, in America, in St. Petersburg. Our last costumes for the free dance were made at the Bolshoy Theatre in Moscow (The Big Theatre).
P: Really?
O: Really! Well, there are a lot of places where we create our costumes. Well, not us but for us. Of course we take part in the
process, but this season it turned out that some of the costumes were made without being tried on first. The costumes were sent in just in time for the competitions. I'm talking about our first costumes at the beginning of the season. When we went to China we were given those costumes.
P: Did everything fit and suit?
M: No
O: Not everything (O & M's laughter)

O: No, unfortunately we couldn't refuse to do it that way, because there was no other way to do it. It's impossible to live in America and have the costumes made in Moscow or in Peter (St. Petersburg), to fly back and forth.
P: Can you have them made in America?
M: We don't know places that we can trust to do things properly. We tried to have a dress for the original dance made in America.
O: A women sewed a dress for me.
O: Yes, it helped me. Yes, but... well, let's say it was ok.
O: For Vancouver I think we'll do it the same way, have the costumes made everywhere. It will depend on the theme, idea and dance.
O:  But if we had the possibility to try the costumes often it would be better.
M: Of course. In Peter we work with people who have known us for a long time, and we have known them for a long time. It's easier to work with them than with anybody else in America. We would have to start from the beginning, and it would take years to have the same results.
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P: When does the new season start? Will they give you some rest?
O: We are resting.
P: You have just rested for a week!
M: As a matter of fact that's all we get!

P: Is it difficult for Russians who live in America to watch their weight? (O & M's laughter)
M: I can't answer to that. I don't have a problem with weight. But food is different from ours, that's  true. It has a chemical taste. It tastes like plastic. You have to look for good food. There are few good groceries there but you have to look for them. You need to go there on purpose.
M: So yes, in the end we were able to find the good groceries. No, we don't have a cook or a person who chooses meals for us and cooks, unfortunately. (O & M's laughter)
P: Hockey players do.
M: A hockey team doesn't consist of 2 people but 22. So hockey players need cooks. We don't.
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About Russian skaters.

O: We've had good results this season, except for the boys.
P: On the other hand, should the country that used to take the whole pedestal be happy with one gold medal and one bronze?
M: Should we cry?
P: It's a deadlock question for me. I wish the whole podium was ours.
M: You think we don't?  We want the same.
O: Everybody wants it. All the Russians want it. (O & M's laughter)
M: We want to have 4 golds. It's better if we win everything.

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M: I can't say anything about my health yet. I'm waiting for my visa to go to Germany, and within the next few days I will fly there. After that I will be able to tell you something about my health.
P: Well, you...er... will you be able to hold out till the Olympic Games?
M: I'll do everything for that!
M: It's a difficult question...how much I cut down on my skating because of the injury.
P: Can you skate better?
M: 100%.

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P: Do you already have ideas for new programs?
M: We do but we won't talk about it.
P: Tell us about the emotional part of your new programs at least.
M: The emotional part will make up 120%, the technical part 130%. Absolutely new elements! (O &M's laughter)
P: Do you add your own new elements, lifts or you do what your coaches say?
M: Both! We all come up with new ideas, put them all together, confront them and after that we have something.
P: Which of you is more creative?
M: Strange question, provocative even. We don't measure it.
P: OK! Whose ideas are more often accepted?
M: We don't count them! I have 15, Oksana has 16, it doesn't work that way.

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About hobbies

M: Of course I have passions besides figure skating. They change from time to time. I like reading very much. I try to spend my free time reading.
P: Newspapers? Literature?
M: Only literature. Newspapers? "Don't read before dinner Soviet newspapers. And we don't have others" (the last phrase is uttered in chorus with the presenter. It's a quote from "Dog's heart" by Mihail Bulgakov - translator's note). I only read literature but not everything I see on the shelf.
P: What was the last book you read?
M: The last one ? Hmm..I don't remember. I...I  read many books at once.
P: Many people do that.
M: That's why when I'm in mood to return to a certain book... I think I reread Anna Karenina. It was my last book. Usually I read classics and some modern books that friends or mates recommend.
M: My favourite books are Russian classics: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy.
P: What a nightmare! (O & Pr's laughter)
O: I have nothing to say. I'll keep silent. (O & Pr's laughter)
P: Dostoevsky is a variant for foreigners who can say: "Oh, Russian literature! Dostoevsky!" because they don't know anyone else.
M: Dostoevsky is a variant for foreigners? What are you talking about? Russian people must read Dostoevsky.
P: Undoubtedly but...er...
O: But nobody reads him. (O & Pr's laughter)
P: No, actually I'm impressed that an athlete's favourite writer, the world champion's favourite writer, is Dostoevsky.
M: Does it sound funny?
M: It's sad that it sounds funny (laughs).
P: Oksana, I would like to know your secret passions.
O: I don't have secret passions. I seldom read books. I don't know what to say. After Max's revelation I have nothing to surprise you with.
P: You'll have to do an exhibition using a  Russian classic.
M: We'll think about it. Maybe we'll use a beautiful romance.

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M: I can't say I have close friends among competitors. I have a lot of friends among figure-skaters because it's our life.
P: But you don't have friends among dancers. You are friends with skaters from other disciplines.
M: Why?
O: But we have. They are just not from the first five couples.
M: I'm friend with Sergey Verbillo.
O: And I'm friend with his partner Anna.
M: They are the Ukrainian team.
O: They don't live that far from us. It's only a two hours' journey. They are the only people we communicate with, really.
M: Our friendship began a long time ago. The funny thing was when we came to America and they returned to Russia, in Odintsovo, for a gathering. Who could say one year later everything would change?

P: Do you have omens?
M: No, we are not superstitious people. Some time ago I had omens. For example I would not step on a manhole.
P: On a manhole?
M: Yes. When I was a child when we stepped on a manhole we had to knock somewhere.

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About Sochi

P: I know you are ambassadors of the Olympic Games in Sochi. What does it mean? Are you going to perform there?
M: Let's perform in Vancouver first!
O: Then we'll talk about Sochi.
P: What does it mean really?
M: We were asked if we wanted to warm up Russian amateurs' interest in the games.. It's very good for Russia, I think.
P: So it was like impromptu, nobody mentioned it to you before?
M: Well, they came to us and asked us before making us ambassadors.
P: That was after your performance, wasn't it?
O: Of course.
P: And immediately they awarded you ambassadors?
O: The following day.
P: Would they have given you the title if you hadn't won?
M: Nobody knows that.
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P: I know in your kind of sport supporting each other is very important. I know the Russian guys watched your performance .
O: It's normal to watch the others perform.
M: We worry about our team mates too, and we support them .
P: Were you glad about our bronze?
M: Of course.
O: I was very glad for Alena.
P: Why?
O: Because we have problems with girls.
P: That is because you, Oksana, didn't want to become a single skater.
O: Me, a single skater? (laughter)
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About their holidays.

M: You already know I'll fly to Germany.
O: As soon as Maxim comes back from Germany we'll start to effectively prepare for next season.
P: You two are workaholics!
O: What else can we do?
M: There is no another way.