Question.-Who is Carolina Pascual?
Answer.-Carolina Pascual is a normal person that started since she
was very young to practice a sport that is rhythmic gymnastics and that
thanks to the effort and the work got a olympic medal, that made me more
popular. But I'm still the same person, Carolina Pascual.
Q.-Why did you start pratising rhytmic gymnastics?
A.-Because since I was a child I started to do ballet and when I was
seven years old the teacher told my mother that I had many qualities for
rhythmic gymnastics, so they looked for a gimnasium where I could practise
it and I started on this sport.
Q.-How many years hacve you dedicated to this sport?
A.-Ten years.
Q.- Why did you quit?
A.-Because I thought that was the moment to leave it, because I was
a bit tired and with 17 years old I thought that it was the moment to quit
and dedicate myself studying and staying with my family and friends.
Q.-What is the secret for being a good gymnast?
A.-I think that the secret is to born for that, training very much,
being very constant and first of all liking it.
Q.-Which is your best memory?
A.-My best memory is the Olympiad. The competition was very hard, but
also very interesting and special and the moment of receiving the medal
was something that I will never forget.
Q.-With what teammate have you lived better together?
A.-With Rosabel Espinosa who is my best friend.
Q.-Who was the person who helped you the most to reach the top?
A.-I supose that the most sincere and true person was Emilia Boneva.
Q.-What was for you Emilia Boneva?
A.-A friend and a mother when I was far away from my home, also a great
companion and friend who have helped me always. A great person, sincere
and kind that gives all for her gymnasts.
Q.-What does a gymnast feel when performes?
A.- Much fear and, at the same time, streghnt and wishes to give all.
Q.-Wich is the worst enemy of a gymnast?
A.-A gymnast has many enemies, but above all are the weight and the
injuries.
Q.-What are you doing now?
A.-I estudy, because I'm finishing BUP and on the afternoons I dedicate
my time at the Club Escuela Municipal de Orihuela where I coach my competition
girls.
Q.-Who has been your idol?
A.-I think that my idol in gymnastics was the died Oksana Kostina,
who I looked at and tried to superate myself.
Q.-When you go to a Sports Center and look at the girls doing gymnastics,
do you wish to perform again?
A..- Certainly yes, but I know that it finished and now I have other
important things to do like coaching my girls.