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We have two weeks the Opening of Östersund and Gabriela Soukalová rental - indeed, Koukalová how we should get used to calling her after his marriage to Petr Koukal - is presented at the start of the new winter in the role of defending the Crystal Ball. The twenty-seven Czech gave a long interview to the head idnes.cz which looks like a "State of the Union speech," or an analysis in the round of his current situation.
Sunday 13 November 2016 13 minutes reading time
If you had to describe your off season in one sentence, what would it be? "I got married and went on honeymoon, in the meantime, I completely lost motivation and then I found. It was an off-season full of events and experiences, but also very tired "
Marriage has absorbed a lot of energy? "To me? For nothing! I preferred to watch my husband do it all. Rather unique, right? Under normal couples planning to marry the girl with great anticipation, but I have not been involved in any aspect. Even as regards the dress. I just said: 'I wish I had a crown of white and blue flowers. And a long train '. Even in the past I was opposed to marriage, I thought I would not have even married me. Instead it was a wonderful experience. " And the honeymoon in the Maldives? "Definitely a shock. It was the most beautiful experience of my entire life. Usually feel the need to keep myself busy with some kind of physical activity, but during the honeymoon I did not notice this need, I like living a fairy tale. Only towards the end I had the desire to play tennis, because it started to miss ".
Then you're back in the Czech Republic and have started to spin like a top. television programs, events with sponsors ... "Yes of course, but they are all things that come along with success. Each calendar day until next summer is already occupied! Really, I have lots of commitments. If I did not write what I should do, I could not keep up with everything. I would miss three quarters of the appointments that I should introduce myself, because every time I happen to forget something even if I wrote it. We have to learn to live with it, I can not complain. Certainly the demands of sponsors have increased dramatically. All they wanted me everywhere and I also learned to say no. It is clear that having a sponsor entails obligations, but at one point I asked for a truce. Fortunately I have been given contractual flexibility. I really appreciated this fact, because if the Czech team has all it has really thank the companies that support it economically. Were it not for their money, our dreams remain confined in our heads. "
Some have written 'Gabriela Koukalová still without reasons, as happened after the Olympic Games in Sochi'. We have to believe? "It was 100% true. When do you start a long-term goal and do everything to achieve it, once you've conquered all the tiredness goes. All together, also returns to the one you have ignored in the preceding months. I'm not a robot, I am a person. There are limits beyond which I can not go. After returning from Khanty-Mansiysk for three weeks I've done nothing but sleep. Apparently my body was completely exhausted. I realized that my body was something going on, because at some point I started to suffer from eczema. I'm worried, I went to the hospital to get me to do the analysis. It was a sign of my body to tell me 'Stop, off, think'. So I did, because I am convinced that no training is negative, but training without reasons and without specific objectives to be much worse. I wondered why I chose to be a biathlete and if it still worth it to be so. "
When and how did you found the will? "I found it abroad, far from the Czech Republic. Even if I was not doing a proper preparation, I have always followed the rest of the team. In meetings abroad I was quieter, more anonymous. I came back I could mix with ordinary people. I felt I had only two tasks in my life: to train and rest. Nothing else. Is the fire "is rekindled.
It is really rekindled because the coaches have told us that in October during the internship of the Dachstein glacier were so determined that allenavi you until you fell exhausted. "They said so eh? (Laugh). The truth is that the week before I had taken the flu and then I was still a bit 'debilitated. For what I finished the exhausted workouts, they were just normal sessions! "
What is the goal for next season? Defend the Crystal Ball? "It would be a prohibitive commitment! Not that I aim higher "
But last year in November you said that you could never win the World Cup, but ... "And in fact I did not believe to be able to win until I got it. By the way, there is a curious story about it and to all those specialty. "
Would be? "For December a sculptor, Jiri Dostal, has organized an exhibition in Liberec. It's called 'Dostal +21' because there are his works and those of 21 students or former students of art schools. Among those 21 I am, too. The fact that he called me is a great honor, and asked to exhibit won the World Cup. Those will be my 'works'! "
Do you regret having to take out of the house? "I would not say. Usually I let the overall World Cup in a box in our Prague apartment, where we go only once in a while. I am happy that the take-powder is put a little 'on display. I pulled out one time, when I was asked to take her to the event that I told you. Looking forward to the shows I left at my parents' house. For me it is much more important to the memory of how I won it, not the trophy itself. "
If you do not think you can win the World Cup, what is your goal for the next winter? "I do my best, put your heart and have fun. That's all. The results will be a consequence "
Nothing specific? Not even a medal at the World Championships in Hochfilzen? "Everyone wants a medal! But for me it will be secondary, I just want to have fun every day and in every race "
You have already said 'Just work out, when did you start racing?' 'Not yet. I have a deficit in training, like I'm still in the midst of preparation. I hope to improve from week to week. Ostersund hope to be competitive enough in the relay. "
The engineers said it would speed up your lead times at the shooting range, but this plan was shelved because it has had disastrous effects. It's true? "Yup. Are suddenly regressed 10 years, it happened to close sessions without even hitting a target. Despite being returned to my usual speed, I still have problems, are terribly unstable. Sometimes I scratch and sometimes three, without knowing why. I hope to find the square as quickly as possible. "
So we always see you with your order placed? "Yup. I consider it essential to maintain accuracy. In my life I have never been nor hasty or impetuous. I never make reckless actions. Nature has created me so full of reasonableness and not for speed. So I have to behave accordingly. I think it was my secret last year, the reason that has allowed me to be so constant. I not have been neither the best nor the shooter best distance runner, but I won the World Cup thanks to my strength. "
Yet the idea of ​​retiring after the Korean Olympics in 2018? "That's my plan."
You were surprised that Darya Domracheva has returned to training immediately after childbirth? "I admire her for that. I think that motherhood gives a woman a completely different view of the world. One realizes that the sport is no longer the center of your life and that there are more important things. All the anxieties caused by the pressure to get a result they can disappear, and you can fully express their potential, as happened to Marie Dorin "
You may also make a comeback after becoming a mom? "Absolutely not".
Even after a year off? "I think I can not go back in competitive sports after being output. My idea is not to go on to the bitter end and retire just because my body can not take it anymore. Actually I had already decided to retire after Sochi 2014, but inside I did not want to stop me, I realized I was too young to be able to give so much more. For now I look up to Korea and do not plan more than my career. Indeed, in recent months I have started thinking about the time when I will leave the sports arena to engage in completely different fields. Now they are motivated to get the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang County in 2018, where I think to close a chapter in my life to open a new one soon after. "
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