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Final six. How it was
"Your pipes and whistles! Your way out, fans!" — the player yelling into the microphone with all his might on the last serve of the Kazan “Zenith”. After the match, he heartily recognizes the Belgorod spectators as the best in Europe, and the volleyball players will come to their podium with the cup to thank them for their support. But goosebumps will run over your skin a little earlier, when Belogorye snatches the last point and the whole team, distraught with happiness, ends up on the court. Someone will climb onto the net, someone will fall exhausted on the floor, someone will hug the governor. And the main result is that after several years the Belgorod team is again at the helm of Russian volleyball.
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3. The closer it got to the end, the more cameras there were around.
4. Three generations on the podium.
5. A few minutes before the start.
6. Exit of Belgorod residents.
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8. Full stands. Even the VIP box was filled.
9. "Fans" of "Zenith".
10. Needless to say, it was not an easy victory for Belogorye. Having won the first two sets, in the third Kazan seized the advantage and did not give it to Belgorod. Shipulin then released several people from the reserve to play, but in the fourth game he threw all his main forces into battle. And it worked.
11. Waveaaaa.
12. And this man in a tracksuit always sits in one place. He is the team's most active fan from the central stand. He would be in the fan sector, but there he will get lost, but here he is louder and brighter than everyone else.
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16. By the end of the fourth game, I came to the Belogorye substitutes. It is very difficult to convey the emotions of the players when the team loses first one match point, then the second. Fomenko seemed to be praying, and Musersky was calming him down - this is understandable, because Anton has not yet won any serious trophies, and his grenadier friend already has truly Olympic calm.
17. But it happened! Victory.
18. Some climbed onto the net.
19. Teams thank each other.
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21. Savchenko and Shipulin.
22. First the judges were awarded, and then the journalists. I was not accredited, but everyone else was congratulated on the New Year and given bags.
23. Bench before the award ceremony. When the teams came out to receive their medals, an interesting moment occurred. Everyone turned their faces to the central stand and their backs to Savchenko, Serdyukov and other people who were to reward the athletes. The host of the ceremony gently asked everyone to turn in the other direction. So the spectators who stayed to watch the awards ceremony on the main central stand saw only the backs of the players. But this is also better than TV, which deprived viewers of at least some broadcast from their screens.
24. First, Shipulin and Tetyukhin were awarded the Order of the Star, as far as I understand.
25. And here comes Musersky! He was named the most valuable player of the finals.
26. The team is preparing to get on the podium. Ilyinykh strained his back in the second or third game and spent the end of the game in pain. They even gave him an injection. And now he is writhing.
27. Gold!
28. I was told that on TV the picture from Belgorod disappeared immediately after the last point. And many didn’t even have this picture. Ugliness, of course, needs to be shown.
29. Gennady Yakovlevich receives a gold medal and a check for 4 million rubles for the winning team.
30. Savchenko and Khamuttskikh.
31. And here it is - the cup!
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33. Finally, approach to the fans. "Thank you!" - the team shouted. The fans rejoiced.
