“I went through different stages. It was hard, and sometimes I was indifferent, convincing myself that silver is also a medal! I do get overwhelmed sometimes — it hits my pride, I admit that.” Evgenia Medvedeva on the Olympic silver
Evgenia Medvedeva about not winning the Olympics.
original source: Roman Kostomarov’s Youtube Channel
In the an interview with Roman Kostomarov, Evgenia Medvedeva talks about not winning the 2018 Olympics and what that experience has taught her. Here’s a translation of her comments.
Evgenia Medvedeva spoke about what the silver medal at the 2018 Olympics taught her.
“Evgenia Medvedeva: I’m okay now. Everything is good with me now. How it was before – it varied. It was hard, and sometimes I was absolutely indifferent, convincing myself that silver is also a medal!
As people like to say, why are you upset? It’s an Olympic silver medal! Practically no one even gets that far, and you have a silver – Zhenya, you should be ashamed, fear God, what are you thinking?
Now it’s okay. For me, the turning point in my attitude towards that situation was to accept that it is what it is, that it’s just a fact. I simply have a silver, actually two. Just accept this fact, and it will never change, there’s nothing you can do about it. You could agonize endlessly about how great you are and things like that.
I went through absolutely different stages. But yes, you just have to accept it. Probably each of us, every athlete, and every person carries their own cross. This is my cross.
But now I have a great life, everything is good. And if I had won… If we look at it from the perspective of quantum dependence, even if a butterfly had flown a different trajectory, the entire fate of the planet would have changed. And here if the color of the medal changed – what would have happened then?
I don’t know what my life would have been like. I might not have met some amazing people. So I’m okay with it. I do get overwhelmed sometimes — it hits my pride, I admit that.
But from my perspective, I realized that you need a certain level of self-criticism to acknowledge your own ignorance and, actually, lack of experience in a certain area.
I’ve heard so much direct at me — you’re ungrateful, you have a silver, and I would have wanted it too. I heard a lot! And I realized that I needed to be more attentive to other people. I began to develop my self-criticism and tried to put myself in others’ shoes. My experience with Olympic medals taught me to hold my tongue and not express my opinion at times,” Medvedeva said in an interview with Roman Kostomarov.
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