Yana Kudryavtseva
Yana Kudryavtseva

When you're on the victory podium, you're a queen, but when you come down from it, you're nobody. You cannot be too proud of yourself.

Yana Kudryavtseva
Yana Kudryavtseva

I got into rhythmic gymnastics when I was four years old.

Yana Kudryavtseva
Yana Kudryavtseva

For a gymnast to be successful, she needs to strike a balance of everything within herself. She needs to be graceful, flexible, perform all elements, turns, maintain co-ordination - she has to have all of that. If, for example, she only has co-ordination and nothing else, she will not succeed.

Yana Kudryavtseva
Yana Kudryavtseva

Some of the authorities would like to remove rhythmic gymnastics from the list of Olympic sports and turn it into art. I think this would be wrong, as rhythmic gymnastics is a true sport - we train around six hours per day and sometimes spend entire days in the gym.

Yana Kudryavtseva
Yana Kudryavtseva

I would like to get a good education, get married, and have kids.