- What are the emotions of returning to the "Round Lake"?

- The emotions are only positive, although it is a little embarrassing that we are in isolation. Completely closed, no movement. When they open us - it is not clear. When the collection ends - too. We stopped without information on how long things would go on. It is clear that the opportunities that are now available for training are incomparable with the desire to visit the house from time to time. The collection has begun, so we hope that some competitions this year will also take place.

- Which of the partners in the team have already met?

- While there are only five of us, this is not the whole composition. No Arthur Dalaloyan, for example.

- How was the settlement?

- We all got a call on the same day and were called to a meeting, and those who could come by car did it right away. The rest should fly. When they settled in, they immediately passed the tests and went to a three-day quarantine, everyone had to stay in their room. Only after the negative results came, could one go to the gym.

- Did you celebrate the meeting in any way?

- Only a good workout.

- Didn’t worry when they were tested?

- No, because in self-isolation my wife and I (Daria Spiridonova, gymnast of the Russian national team. - RT ) periodically underwent testing. A week before arriving at the base, we were also checked, everything was in order.

- How do you rate your athletic form now?

“Of course, she’s not the best, but it’s not so bad as I expected.”

- All skills remained or some lost during this time?

- Now it’s pointless to talk about it. You need to at least restore your previous physical condition, restore coordination, then you can talk about something. So far I can’t rush into the pool with the head and do complex elements. You need to spend at least a week or two on the basic elements, and then look at your condition, well-being, otherwise you can get injured.

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- Have there ever been such breaks between training sessions?

- No never.

- There is an idea of ​​what will happen next, what should be prepared for?

- Now everything is in the same position. We need to build an action plan that will be useful in the future, for example, at the Olympic Games in 2021. You can learn new elements, develop a technique, improve the class. We have such a sport that you can come up with a lot of things, depending on what lies ahead. So far there is nothing ahead, so for a month or two we will just return the form.

- Did you manage to master something new in life in quarantine?

- I started playing the synthesizer! Because the string broke on the guitar, and there was nowhere to buy a new one. ( Laughs. ) So my wife gave me a synthesizer, now I'm learning to play. He also began to mount releases for the YouTube channel. I used to have a team of guys who did this, but now I do everything myself. We can say that a second wind has opened, and quarantine has benefited in some way.

- Have you already composed something?

- No, of course, I’ve been doing it for a week. This stage has already been completed, because I once was a rapper. ( Laughs. ) There are still tracks dedicated to his wife. Then we had a candy-bouquet period, and I wanted to prove myself creatively. If you look somewhere deep in social networks, you can find five songs.

- You posted a lot of videos with various challenges. Which was the hardest?

- This was my last video when I did a double backflip back from the spot on the mattress. It was just hard to decide. I even posted the full version of my attempts on YouTube, because it turned out to be the most difficult.

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- How did your quarantine workouts go, how did you try to arrange an apartment for them?

- I didn’t come up with anything new, but I tried to equip the house in such a way as to get the maximum benefit from training. I have my own shells, which I did for gymnasts and acrobats, I just took them for myself. Put a fungus (preparatory projectile for a horse) and struts (wooden sticks similar to bars). I tried as much as possible to move exercises from the gym on them. For example, I set up the struts so that it was possible to use them together with the sofa and throw legs on it. Such preparatory elements helped me a lot. Now I came to the hall and realized that I can already show something on full-fledged shells. In addition to this, I bought myself a muscle massager.

- How did you manage to share the apartment with Daria? She is also an athlete, she needed her own space for training ...

- We have a rather big apartment, we could study in different rooms, we could in one. There wasn’t enough space.

- Arthur Dalaloyan told me how he once could not share a hotel room with you. And how did self-isolation affect your relationship with Daria?

“They only got better.” We haven't spent so much time together yet. For the first time we were faced with everyday life, because during the training camp and between them we are practically not at home. Usually, if they wanted to eat, they went to a cafe with friends. They also ate at home, but not like now, three to four times a day. Dasha cooks very tasty, and I always remained full. We discovered ourselves from different angles, which we might not have noticed before quarantine. Previously, I was worried about what will happen when our career ends, how our life will turn out. But quarantine made it clear that it’s even better to live like that than to be in sports all the time, because we don’t see each other at training camps. When you are constantly next to your loved one, then these are completely different emotions. I can be calm that after sports we will have a loving family.

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“Did you get bored in quarantine while you whiled away time?”

- We did not shorten it, we lengthened it. Two weeks later, they began to notice that time was flying awfully fast. This always happens when people are doing well. At the training camp, I look back, and it seems that these two months have passed in a week.

- In one of your YouTube videos, Daria made it clear that she was unhappy with your passion for video games ...

- ( Laughs. ) She is an owner by nature, I have to be with her all the time. But I think that it would not be normal if she didn’t tell me anything like that. I understand that this is leisure, not work, like streamers or gamers. As a child, I trained, and in the remaining time I played CS: GO, other games. When we went to the training camps and had good internet, we spent all our leisure time with the guys online. But we did not play until five in the morning, everything was in moderation.

When you have a family, in ordinary life you can no longer sit at the computer. Now, with the advent of extra time, I downloaded CS: GO again and agreed with my wife that I can afford one or two games a day. Of course, Dasha doesn’t really like it, she has to immediately look for herself some business, but she quickly finds them.

- You are going to take part in the CS: GO Tournament of Sports Stars on the platform of the Moscow eSportsman with other gymnasts. How do you rate your chances?

- I can’t say that we are super professionals. I’ll say to myself that I played much better three or four years ago. To restore form, you need to practice every day for a month or two. Now there is no such possibility, especially on the basis of a slow network. At home I remembered a little skills. We need to figure out what to do with the Internet, because we do not have a wired one. But we will certainly do our best to participate. Take one day to play, because there are a lot of new cards, and then we’ll already evaluate our chances. True, two guys will come and settle only on the 31st, when the tournament has already begun. This is a challenge, but we athletes must accept it.

- Daria admitted that she also played in CS : GO . Maybe she could help your team?

- ( Laughs. ) Compared to the lightest bots, she plays something like this. That is, he knows how to run and shoot.