Lupita translates Elena Vaitsekhovskaya's interview with the World Beam Champion. ' I am very happy about how it all went' said Mustafina in the mixed zone. 'I won silver at the 2010 European Championships, but this was three years ago.' In Antwerp you performed three times on beam. Could you describe your impressions during the Championships? I felt more and more confident all along. Although I was more tired, everything went better. In qualifications I started on beam and was very nervous. It’s always difficult when you start a competition on beam. When you performed beam in the all around, you showed less difficult elements than you had foreseen. In fact I decided to downgrade my routine to make fewer mistakes, to be more confident. Svetlana Boginskaya said that it’s very good to perform first on beam. She is absolutely right. I like competing first on beam. You don’t have time to watch the other gymnasts’ performances. ...
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