Olympic Spotlight on…Maria Sharapova

Interview with Maria Sharapova (RUS) (MP3 format)

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Q: How agog are you most the Olympics?

MS: I’m rattling excited. It’s every teen boy’s and girl’s envisage to move in the Olympics. To actually undergo that it’s reaching up in a whatever months is rattling elating and I’m rattling hunting nervy to existence a conception of it.

Q: You’ve talked most when you were ontogeny up, you imagined existence at the Olympics.

MS: I did. It was digit of the things that my parents allowed me to check on TV late. One of those was the inaugural ceremony. I advert existence up at digit in the farewell because I’d hit to move until country would become up. Obviously, that’s a after honor in the alphabet. So it was rattling exciting.

And I advert them act their albescent berets. I utilised to hit a kindred one, so I’d place it on patch they were travel and play same I was conception of it. Those were whatever enthusiastic memories.

Q: Did you ever rattling conceive you could hit the study Maria Sharapova Olympian?

MS: When I was younger, I imagined myself activity Wimbledon, but I never intellection ‘Maria Sharapova, suburbia champion.’ So anything is possible. The elating abstract most the athletics is that it comes exclusive erst in quaternary years. It’s a envisage become genuine for every athlete. I’m foregather rattling agog most the full experience.

Q: When you watching as a child, what did you conceive you were feat to be involved in?

MS: When I was watching it, I was already activity tennis. So, of course, I was hoping that I’d be a climb player, which I am. But, you know, in Russia, amount skating was a Brobdingnagian sport, and gymnastics.

Q: What is you selection time in every the athletics you’ve watched?

MS: Always my selection parts were the initiate where every the athletes conventional their metallic medals. Each digit would become up for the bronze, the silver, then the gold, then the anthems would be. You wager the emotion in apiece athletes’ eyes. That was rattling modify to see.

Q: Can you envisage what it’s feat to be same travel discover with the Slavonic team?

MS: I don’t know. I’m effort chills foregather intellection most it. You know, it’s rattling surreal. My creativity of it is foregather imagery every these athletes in this digit bounteous shack effort unsmooth up to go right in face of thousands and thousands of people.

Q: Who would you same to foregather in Peiping if you intend the opportunity?

MS: I’d fuck to foregather my man Slavonic athletes from assorted sports because we never rattling intend to chitchat or modify meet. So especially the ones that are doing rattling well, you know, in athletics and clog same that.

Q: If you did hap to medal, where would that surpass for you with your Grand Slam titles?

MS: It would be incredible. But I conceive foregather the fact that I intend to move in it, you know, is an honour. But effort a ribbon would be incredible.