Nedobe. Of course, we were warned: in the first week with medals, especially gold, Russia will be tight. But so that so, even knowledgeable people did not assume this. Some kind of system was a failure-entire sports
It's a shame that sometimes we give our own - in shooting, fencing, a rod ... But so far the games have not ended, let's refrain from trying to analyze on the run. Our task is to mobilize extremely. ”
Before the Beijing Olympiad, we had the president of the Olympic Committee Leonid Tyagachev with the main glead of the Olympiad: “We are going to war - in a good sense of the word”, etc. Now he has a competitor - sports minister Vitaliy Mutko, only appointed before Beijing. Previously, he was, of course, the president of Zenit, and then the head of all Russian football, but he was unlikely to imagine in detail what was happening in the country with professional sports in general. I had to get acquainted with the situation in Beijing. And at the same time start responsible for her ...
Val plan
To begin with, Vitaliy Leontyevich renounced participating in the compilation of the notorious “medal plan”. It turned out, upon closer examination, that “medals cannot be planned categorically in sports. To predict is another matter. But - based not only on how our athletes spoke at the World and European Championships, other major tournaments that have been held shortly before the Olympics. After all, the athlete has been preparing for four years, it can skip two world championships and many other competitions, but at the Olympics suddenly take and “shoot”.
This important observation gives, of course, the opportunity to look at the problems of our Olympians in a completely new way that is not overwhelmed by any power, but they, alas, do not cease to be problems from the reorientation of the look. Previously, everything seemed to be clear: we had the money that it was customary to call the “sports of the highest achievements” seemed like it was not enough. But everything is not so for a long time.
Take, for example, the first of the “given to our own” - shooting, so submitting us four years ago, at the start of the Athenian games. Then all the country interested in sport once every four years learned these names: Alipov, Galkin, Nestruev ... For they were the first to bring our country gold medals. Then the first. Now they were shooting a little worse: Alipov, the initiator of the Athenian pattern - the third, Galkina - the second, Nestruev did not get into the stream at all, twice slipping past a guaranteed finale.
So: the owner and at the same time the financial guarantor of all our rifle successes, the chairman of the board of directors of the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant Vladimir Lisin, after Greece, created the arrows for the arrows for training-only the shooting house of his own name “Fox Nora” gives foreigners an idea of the true Russian-Kupa hunting scope. I don't want to shoot!
However, a well -aimed Mongolian girl by the name of the detachment (her name is Gundekmaa) took and shot no worse than Galkina Luba - for silver. But actually she would be a one hundred percent champion, but in the decisive series the pistol had, she had to arrange a long trial with the judges, to knock out permission to a shootout, which she, having furred, slightly tore off, which was why the second only became. (I think that in Mongolia they have, in poverty, this pistol is highly professional - it is generally alone on all, and so the boiler was erased from the frequency of use.)
But Lisin Vladimir Sergeyevich only covers the entire budget of the country of Mongolia, and he put his beloved in the shooting of his beloved to every disputed oligarch-more than they are in the infrastructure of Ulan-Bator, but for some reason they turn out to be approximately equal. With Mongolia ...
Work in a Soviet way
With China, the current one is clear that you are not too sprinkling: in the first 6 days of games against our first three places they took twenty-two. Vitaly Mutko promptly told how he, having visited the Chinese National University of Physical Education and Sports, "almost cried with envy." And he was completely at a loss in his feelings when the rector at the farewell whispered to him: the Chinese relyed in their research, it turns out, on the Soviet high-class athletes training system!
They drove, it turns out, our chief athlete in a stupor: they beat our own weapons. And it hurts, after all, they beat - you will get a lot. And we, at least at first, had nothing to answer. “Such personalities as Salnikov, Popov, Karelin have gone ... So the Americans have Felps - this guy radiates such confidence that he drags everyone else behind him. And in some sports we lost leaders ... ” - Mutko comprehends reality.
Actually, they have already left for a long time: in 2000-Karelin, in 2004-Popov, and seals at all twenty years ago. And the people who have been born is not the only one (well, except that the partners in a pair of relay have helped) have longed over the gold more than our entire Olympic team - not swimming, but in general all. Apparently, a general prosperous forecast is not a plan now, no! - 27 gold medals and 80 in total was based on accurate intelligence: in athletics eight times (!!!) Beijing champion Michael Felps will not drag any of his own ...
