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1. Golden Hoop (published on 12 Sep. 2009)
   http://penza.kp.ru/daily/24359/545053/
 
The first paragraph of this article was about Zhenya’s gold record in WC Mie 2009.
and following is the translation of the 2nd paragraph, a lovely little story which happened in OG 2008
 (translated by catts)

[ I was recalled a lovely episode. 2 days after the OG was ended, at the Beijing airport we met – hard to believe – among all the people there was Zhenya Kanaeva, the champion and the beautiful girl. We saw there was a leather circle in her hand holding, and we noticed that it contained her hoops for the OG. One of these hoops she actually used for her routines. I pretended to speak in a deeper tone (a more senior voice) and asked: “Zhenya, which hoop is the golden one?” And she showed it and said, “here it is and it has won me everything”. “Can you give it to me as a present?”, I asked. And Zhenya Kanaeva gave me the hoop. I thought at that time, “all her hoops are equally covered with gold”. And I was not mistaken. ]

note by WanWan: Zhenya is always so nice and sweet~~

2. Zhenya like to talk with her apparatus!
 (by WanWan)

in general, Zhenya like to talk with her apparatus, treat them as living being.
for example, She will say: why did you drop?? let’s manage to get things done together. Zhenya is so cute~~
I read this from an interview of last year (2008), but I forgot the link.

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Chinese Translation by Zoe Wan (zhenya0402)

1. 黃金的環

這篇文章第一段是在講 Zhenya 在世錦賽奪金創紀錄的事情
第二段就是那個可愛的小故事: Golden Hoop
[ 我 (指記者) 回想起一個有趣的插曲，去年奧運結束後第2天, 我在北京機場遇見了Zhenya，難以相信，Zhenya Kanaeva 就在人群中，奧運冠軍且是位美麗的少女。我看到她手上拿著皮革圓圈形狀的東西，我留意到那是包覆著她奧運用的Hoop。那些 Hoop 的其中之一是她在比賽裡頭跳 Routine 時用的。我假裝以一種深沈的語氣 (比較認真嚴肅的口氣) 跟她說話，並問她：Zhenya，那個Hoop 是你奪金的Hoop 呢? 她拿給我看並說：" 是這個, 我靠它贏的 " 接著我問她 " 你能把它送給我當禮物嗎" 然後Zhenya 就把那個Hoop送給我。我當時想: 每個Hoop 對她而言都是一樣的，我想我的看法沒有錯。]

這故事說明了，不是某個特定的Hoop 讓 Zhenya 贏金牌，是Zhenya的努力讓她的Hoop，讓她所有的器械戴上gold medal !

2. Zhenya 喜歡跟自己的器械說話 !

這個小故事是去年OG後某篇訪問中看到的, 但原文連結我忘了。

那篇訪問的記者問Zhenya： 聽說你會跟自己的器械(apparatus) 說話，好似它們是有生命的？
Zhenya 承認說：是的，我會跟自己的器械說話，譬如我會說，為什麼你會掉下來呢?? 讓我們好好一起完成接下來的動作吧。