Multiple world champions in rhythmic gymnastics Arina and Dina Averina told Sport in an interview about life after sports, remaining injuries and personal life, which itself will soon reveal all the secrets.
The near future without politics
– How are you feeling after the operations? I see the orthosis is still on Arina's arm.
Arina:Yes, plus I took off the bandage today because it wasn’t very pretty, but I still wear it. In general, I already feel more or less myself. I’m not moving my brush yet, because it hurts, but my fingers are already working.
Dina: I took off the bandage and orthosis, taping, and working out my arm. A week and a half later, an examination; after removal, only a month had passed. We'll check to see if it works or doesn't work. But the surgeon warned that the hand would take a long time to develop because of ligaments and fine motor skills. But thanks to fine motor skills you can speed up recovery. Let's study.
– Is there any pattern in the fact that you both have the same arm injured?
Dina: It happened purely by chance, everyone is surprised that we have the same diagnosis and at the same time of operation.
Arina: In fact, we have never had There were no identical injuries throughout my entire sports career. Dina usually has her back, I have my hips and knees.
– Maybe because the right hand is most often involved in elements and working with objects?
Arina: Well, yes, professional sports, plus we are right-handed. The rules were different. In small work with an object, the brush rotates all the time, besides, we lean on it and make revolutions.
–What are you doing now after finishing your career?
Dina: We train the least.
Arina: Yes, although when I just finished sports, I spent 10 days every day from 10 am to 9 pm in the gym, no matter how strange it may sound. We took part in the show.
Dina: Since it’s summer, we try to relax more and spend time with our family. Our older sister and her daughter flew to Russia for the whole summer. So we only arrived at night from Nizhny.
Arina: We try to spend as much time as possible in Nizhny, but we fly to Moscow for meetings and events.
– Can you imagine making a political career? Become the Minister of Sports, for example, or head some organization/federation. Not now, but hypothetically.
Arina:In the near future, most likely not. We are now interested in opening our own school for children so that they can do rhythmic gymnastics. We will also promote our show. Last year we already made “Swan Lake” in Nizhny Novgorod. And I also want to perform in the show myself. We gave ourselves a break from master classes in connection with operations, but at the end of August we are planning them in China and Singapore.
Dina: There will be a big master class at the beginning of July class in Krasnodar, many plans, but everything depends on health and recovery, so we don’t make any plans.
“Children are in the plans”
– Can we say that you are now finally sleeping enough, walking and generally enjoying life?
Arina :Yes and no. By the way, I wouldn’t say that we get much sleep, because we often have to get up early for events, plus flights. Well, my niece also doesn’t let me sleep a little in the morning (smiles).
Dina: But there really is more free time, walks and pleasure in life.
– How do you find a common language with your niece?
Dina:When she was 4 months old, we spent 3 weeks with her in Dubai. We got used to her, and she got used to us. But we thought that after 2 months of separation she would forget us. It turned out, no, she remembers us, when we met them in Moscow, she smiled at us so much!
Arina: I was happy when I saw us. In general, we get along well with her, she is not capricious when she stays with us.
Dina: We are so glad that we can be with her and communicate with Polina a lot, otherwise it wasn’t possible at all before.
– Forgive me for asking this question, but after the birth of your niece, did you want your own child?
Arina: Of course, I want a family and children. But I wouldn’t say that this came with the birth of my niece; we started thinking about it two years ago. All this is in the plans.
– How long did it take you to decide to separate your social networks? Many years before this, you maintained one page for two.
Arina: You won’t believe it , but Dina planned this 5 years ago.
Dina: Then they somehow forgot, got confused, plus it took a lot of time – both to maintain a general page, and your personal ones. So ending my career was a good reason to finally do it.
– Dina, you have more posts than Arina. Why?
Dina: Everything is logical here, everyone in the world of gymnastics knows that Arina doesn’t really like to be photographed and is generally a little more private. Although lately he has been asking to take her picture more and more often. He says, let me publish something.
– Is there no competition for subscribers and likes between you?
Arina: I know that Dina has more subscribers, but I take it calmly. She loves all this more, but it doesn’t matter to me.
Dina: And I’m glad that we have a lot of subscribers on our common page. We are not abandoning it, we continue to maintain activity. And I wouldn’t want, by the way, to have a million people on my personal account.
– Why?
Dina: Well, it’s still personal, although on the Internet. I share a part of my life there. I don’t want some people who are completely strangers to me to discuss something, to condemn something. options”
– Have you spent less time together since you finished your career?
Dina:Since I help the ASSC (Association of Student Sports Clubs of Russia – editor's note), I began to fly alone more often to events. At first, everyone asked me where Arisha was, but now we've gotten used to it.
Arina:I sometimes fly with Dina, but more often than not she's alone. So yes, we really have begun to spend more time apart.
– Dina has a lot of photos on social networks from matches of the basketball media league. Can you imagine something like this in rhythmic gymnastics?
Dina: I was just thinking today about why not make something like a media league in gymnastics . At the basketball final, the entire hall was filled, there was nowhere not only to sit, but even to stand. And this is very cool. Media people, amateurs, professionals play there.
– Your personal life is a big secret. Could anything make you talk about her?
Dina: Definitely not now. Personal life is personal. The saying “happiness loves silence” is close to me.
Arina: Someday the time will come, and everyone will know naturally. For example, when there is a wedding, there are no options.
– Is it true that you don’t watch rhythmic gymnastics at all now? Based on such words, one could assume that you are tired of her.
Dina:That’s what the journalists wrote, but it was a little taken out of context. The question was specifically about whether we follow the performances of Lala Kramarenko.
Arina: In principle, we never watched the entire competition, even when we performed ourselves. Only some individual moments, individual gymnasts. So it is now. We monitor the results, stay on topic, and watch individual videos. Gymnastics is our life, so I don’t think that we will ever completely stop being interested in it.
– Do you miss performing? You walk into the hall, and something inside shrinks.
Dina: Something hurts so much that it’s not very possible to be bored yet.
Arina: There are days when you remember, miss, and want to come back. And the next morning you wake up – it’s pinched here, pinched there, you can’t walk. And then you understand: where should you go back to, you are already “old”.
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