| What is the best moment in your career as a sculler? |
The very one moment at the Olympic final where I passed Ekatarina Karsten (shortly) |
| What did you do on the evening after your Olympic final? |
I spend THE exhausting night in Sydney. |
| What did you miss most during your last months of hard training before Sydney? |
Sex. |
| Describe briefly how you enjoyed life in the months after your bronze. |
Pittily there was not much joy, because I had to leave the Olympic games before their finishing because I had to start again my last year of education as a fashion designer - creating ball/evening dresses |
| What is your biggest motivation to continue after your bronze medal. |
To become world champion in the single |
| What will you do with the £1000 if you win it. |
Buy McQueen and Gaultier |
| Can you describe who is your toughest opposition in the HTWSC? |
Of course the river Thames. It is a moody river, sometimes like men - fast and enjoying and then sleepy. |
| Is there anything you think about the other athletes? |
There are all great rowers - full of passion of our sport - and I think honest people. |
| What will you do differently in the race this year compared to last year? |
Never loosing the current. |
| Are you going to win this year? and why? |
Yes. It's like spacecowboys - "fly me to the moon" |
| Have you got any other dreams of what you would like to achieve in life? |
Dreams to help the world to be a place more worth living. |
| What is the best moment ever in a boat? And the worst?
Best: when I was 16 years old and I had my first national test and I won - it was one of my most remarkable moments in my rowing career. |
Worst: February. Snowy. Freezing -5 Degrees Celsius. A non-speaking coach in a motorboat. Somewhere ugly in Germany. |
| Have you ever fallen in? Most embarrassing moment? |
fallen in: when I was the first time in a single - about 10 feet away from the pontoon I became scared of a really really small wave - WOSH embarrassing: I am never embarresed of everything. |
| Have you got a lucky mascot? |
mein schlumpfi mit den ketten um den hals |
| Who do you admire most in rowing? and outside rowing? |
I cannot describe an admiring feeling to any person - I have in favour good actions of different persons |
| What do you like most about Britain? |
Fish and chips |
| What other things are you going to do in London? |
FASHION |
| Who do you support in the Boatrace and why: Oxford or Cambridge and who is going to win? |
Who is the most show off and self-confident team? I will support them - this will be the team, which has fun to do this funny race and at the end the team which will win. |