“This whole path is very long, difficult, to say that some kind of euphoria comes when this happens is not.

Probably, this was not some kind of my cherished dream, so I didn’t have any thoughts, I was glad that she was already at the Olympics, selected, that she would have such wonderful memories in her life, ”said Yulia Shcherbakova in an interview with TV channel "Star".

According to her, she did not think about victory, and now there are no thoughts that this happened yet.

For his part, the figure skater's father, Stanislav Shcherbakov, said he was proud of his daughter.

“I am proud, first of all, that she is independent, she does a lot herself, adjusts herself, makes some decisions on content, everything herself, and she is very smart, I am proud of her,” he said.

Earlier, Honored Master of Sports, Olympic champion Elena Berezhnaya, in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, commented on Kamila Valieva's performance at the Beijing Olympics.