Isinbayeva returns to Trofimov

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Thanks to KLocke for the tip... here is a rough translation...

http://news.sport-express.ru/2011-03-11/425102/
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Isinbayeva returned to Trofimov

11.03.2011

Two-time Olympic champion Yelena Isinbayeva. REUTERS photo
ATHLETICS
Two-time Olympic champion Yelena Isinbayeva has returned to his first coach Yevgeny Trofimov, informs rusathletics.com. Past few years, a 27 times world record holder in the pole vault was prepared under the guidance of well-known expert Vitaly Petrov.

"Before taking such a decision, I spoke with Vitaly Petrov, who has coached in recent years. We are well communicated and understood each other and parted ways by mutual consent. I am grateful to Vitaly Afanasevich for what he did for me, for his care, patience and professionalism ", - said Isinbayeva.

"Last Sunday I met her first mentor - Yevgeny Trofimov, and said that I wanted to go back to him. We have a very long and detailed talk about it and decided to continue to work together. I realized that I was a convenient and comfortable most of the time to spend in Russia . I want to train in his native New Orleans, to be with his family and friends. Of course, I will come and in Monte Carlo, but the main part of the training we will conduct at home. I'm happy that Yevgeny had agreed to work with me again, we outlined the plans for the future and have already held two joint exercises. Of course, our main goal - the Olympic Games in London and the world championship in Moscow ", - stressed the jumper.

Recall that Isinbayeva went on their long coach Yevgeny Trofimov fall of 2005, explaining this decision need to find a new motivation. After that she moved from Volgograd in Monaco, has begun working with a trainer of the legendary Sergey Bubka, Vitaly Petrov. It was while working with Trofimov Russian woman won her first Olympics and first picked up the height of 5 m.

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Haha well this is an IAAF exclusive interview, but they're not the first to report the news of this

http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=100/newsid=59502.html

Saturday, 12 March 2011
EXCLUSIVE - Isinbayeva returns to her original coach

Pole Vault world record holder Yelena Isinbayeva at the World Indoor Championships' press conference (Getty Images)
The management of Yelena Isinbayeva, the reigning 2-time Olympic champion and 27-time World record breaker in the women’s Pole Vault, has confirmed the news that the 28-year-old star has returned to her first coach Evgeniy Trofimov.

In an exclusive interview for the IAAF website given to Nickolai Dolgoplov, our Russian correspondent, Evgeniy Trofimov explains the events which led to Isinbayeva’s return to his tutelage.

“Yes the news is true," said Trofimov. "It all happened on (6 March 2011) Forgiveness Sunday (when Orthodox Christians traditionally forgive each other’s sins)…. At my apartment in Volgograd the phone rang. I picked- up and immediately heard the voice: ‘Evgeniy Vasilivitch. How do you do. Yelena is calling’.”

“She talked without any allusions: ‘It is necessary to meet each other’. I was all the time thinking. I saw clearly and distinctly what was going on with my former pupil. The former pain which had once boiled between us has now simmered but had still not disappeared completely. But it was the 6 March, Forgiveness Sunday.”

“Yelena was waiting for me in a little restaurant…And we had a one to one talk. The conversation was frank… the conversation was concrete.”

“She had talked the situation over with (her) coach (Vitaly) Petrov and he knew of her decision. And she would like to be coached by me again.”

“The talk was extremely good and friendly. And I promised to think it over. Believe me there were a lot of things to be weighed up carefully.”

“But on the 8 March…that is a Russian National Holiday called International Women’s Day the whole family of Yelena, her father and mother included, were sitting in my flat at the holiday table. And it turned out that a refusal was impossible… I gave my consent....”

“We have already had two practices in Volgograd. And they went well. Now at the moment Lena is in Donetsk where her poles are and they will be brought back to Volgograd soon. The distance between the two cities is not that long. She’ll bring the poles back.”

“Our first training sessions turned out to be incredible. They were, how can I explain it to you; full of tenderness and kindness, like they used to be before. And we did understand each other so well; like nothing had happened during those five years (since they parted).

"I have all Yelena’s (training) diaries with all her notes. And everything is clear for me. We should restore (prepare her for competition) calmly and steadily. And we’ll do it with Lena seriously, very seriously,” confirmed Evgeniy Trofimov.

Nickolai Dolgoplov (Rossiyskaya Gazeta) for the IAAF

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Isn't it a little early for an April fools joke?

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/ ... 5I20110313

Athletics-Isinbayeva returns to former mentor Trofimov

MOSCOW, March 13 | Sun Mar 13, 2011 9:02am EDT
(Reuters) - Olympic champion and world pole vault record holder Yelena Isinbayeva has left coach Vitaly Petrov and returned to her former mentor Yevgeny Trofimov following a series of poor performances in the last two years.

"I've talked to Yelena on the phone and she told me that she had decided to return to (her native city) Volgograd and train with Trofimov," Russia's athletics chief Valentin Balakhnichyov was quoted as saying by local media.

"She told me she simply got tired living away from home. She had asked me for advice but it was her decision."

Isinbayeva parted company with Trofimov in 2005 after winning that year's world championships and becoming the first woman pole vaulter to break the five-metre barrier.

She soon joined Petrov, former coach of the great Ukrainian pole vaulter Sergei Bubka, at his training centre in Formia, Italy, and relocated to Monaco, hoping the move would help her to break more records.

The Russian was virtually unbeatable between 2003 and 2009, winning every major competition before suffering a shock defeat at the 2009 world outdoor championships in Berlin, where she failed to clear a height.

She took a break from the sport after failing to win a medal at last year's world indoor championships in Doha.

Isinbayeva made a comeback at a low-key indoor meeting in Moscow last month and was hoping to compete at this month's European indoor championships but was forced to pull out after falling ill.

"I was a bit surprised when she called and said she wanted to return," Trofimov, who had coached Isinbayeva since the age of 15 and said at the time that she had "simply betrayed" him, told internet site www.gazeta.ru.

"On the other hand, I felt she was missing something. I think she had tried to approach me last year but I didn't want to have any contact with her," he said.

"But when she called me this week and asked for forgiveness, I had a change of heart. I think she was seriously considering quitting the sport for good if I had turned her down." (Reporting by Gennady Fyodorov; Editing by Clare Fallon; To query or comment on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)

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hey

i think we will see good things happen from this... she had some good stuff before she went to Petrov, now she can put the two together... )keep her run on) and jump high..

I will gladly send a "MID" chart to help keep the run "ON", unless of course they already have it.....

dj

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VOLGOGRAD (RUS): Help from a rich man. Russian media are informing that one of the richest men Russian Roman Abramovich, owner of Chelsea football club, will be ready to help Yelena Isinbayeva to improve the conditions for training in Volgograd. The pole vault queen will now spend more time in Russia as before and mainly will have her coach Yevgeniy Trofimov in Volgograd. In the past years she was mostly training in Formia, Italy where Vitaliy Petrov leads the IAAF pole vault center. Isinbayeva met with Abramovich last December in Zurich at the FIFA World Cup voting. Now discussions are already going on with Abramovich team about possibilities to modernise mainly the Volgograd indoor hall.

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http://en.rian.ru/sports/20110324/163173453.html

Russia's Abramovich to reconstruct stadium for Isinbayeva's trainings

Roman Abramovich
© RIA Novosti. Vladimir Vyatkin
03:17 24/03/2011


Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich agreed to finance reconstruction works of a stadium used for trainings by Russia's double Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva, her new trainer said.

This month Russia's pole vault queen Isinbayeva began practicing with her new trainer Yevgeny Trofimov at a stadium in Volgograd, in south European Russia.

"Yelena turned to Roman Abramovich with a request [to finance the reconstruction] and he agreed," Trofimov said, adding that Abramovich's people recently visited Volgograd and made all the necessary calculations.

Between November 2005 and March 2011, Isinbayeva's trainer was Vitaly Petrov, who used to work with Soviet pole vault legend Sergei Bubka, leading him to 35 world records.

Last month, Isinbayeva, who had spent almost nine months out of competitions, made a comeback with the world-leading 4.81 m at the Russian Winter Meeting in Moscow.

The 28-year-old Russian star decided to take an indefinite break in her career after she failed to clear the bar at the Berlin Worlds in 2009 and finished fourth at the world indoors in Qatar in March 2010.

She won her first Olympic gold in Athens in 2004 and became the first woman to clear the historic 5-meter barrier in the pole vault a year later. She has broken 27 world records so far in her incredible career, topping at 5.06 m.

Isinbayeva's main target over the next couple of seasons will be the London Olympics in the summer of 2012.

VOLGOGRAD, March 24 (RIA Novosti)