Let's go! XXIX Summer Olympic Games opened in Beijing on the 8th of the 8th month of 2008 at 8 hours 8 minutes and 8 seconds local time
In fact, the competition in China began earlier: on August 6, a women's football tournament started, the next day it began men's. But it so happened, we can’t see medals in them: they didn’t go through. (This, by the way, is about what kind of football under the strict leadership of Vitaly Mutko is now experiencing times of heyday ...) Worse, however, that the Olympic team as a whole was not able to go through another selection: either the athletes are removed for the replacement of analyzes, then cyclists on suspicion of doping. Nevertheless, the president of the Russian Olympic Committee Leonid Tyagachev firmly costs his own: since 80 medals in Beijing are planned - they will bring them. About 30 gold, he, the truth, was closer to the start, the less often he remembered, but he warned against the possible incorrect assessment of the national team’s performance in the early days: “We all have to remember that our medal species will begin somewhere from the middle of the Olympics, so you don’t need to sprinkle your head asleep ahead of time, if at first something does not work out.”
We really want to assure us that the Olympic team is such one family dressed in the Boszo, which is poured in the Olympic village in one gangs of one basin. And if something does not work out for some, others can take it to heart, which is not entirely desirable. But imagine that the arrows, God forbid, began in Beijing not from the first places. What, this oppressively affects athletes who are still sitting in Irkutsk and will appear in Beijing when all the arrows are already shooting and leave? Or wrestlers, instead of continuing to train in Krasnoyarsk, will be swayed by the TV with beer and slogan “Support Russia”?
The Olympiad is 38 sports living in their lives and intersecting once every four years, and even, as you see, very often - by tangent. But if these types are harmonious - build, for example, more pools, then in swimming, where no less than 34 sets of awards are played out, you can count on a good harvest from the first Olympic days, as the Americans, Chinese or Australians do. Do you know how many medals from this huge amount were “caught” in the Athenian pool at the last Olympiad Russians? One. Silver ...
The Russian national team went to Beijing for the third team, giving out the first two US and China in advance and ready for the fact that "at first something may not get better." By the way, after the collapse of the SSR, Russia was medically added: 63 awards in 1996 in Atlanta, 88-four years later in Sydney, 92 in Athens-2004. Are we going to a planned decrease?
