Oh, what I saw!

Olympics through the eyes of Yuri Growth

Adler Arena is a final. Photo: Yuri Growth - "New"

Female hockey on ice. This is almost the same as male makeup - you can’t consider anything natural. And for me it looks unnatural. There are thirty ammunition kilograms on the girl-breeding girl, the faces of those in the field are protected by bars, and they are armed with clubs, ready for power techniques, so try the approach. However, if this is a hockey player a man and also with a club ...

I attribute this sport for myself to “Olympic”, i.e. not quite corresponding to my addictions based on the classic interpretation of the games with a beautiful baron de Cuberten. “Above, further, faster, more noble (I attributed this to). The main thing is not victory, but participation! " And other, as it is now clear, to Beliberd. The main thing, of course, is now victory, because so much money, nerves and effort is that you just won’t report to the boss who want to see the state as a winner: even in a female hockey, even in the opening ceremony (now this is also a competition), even in a short track, even in a snowboard, even in the might, this is when they skied with healthy knees on the bogram ...

I understand that it is necessary to involve the regions of the world, where this very track, board or mogul is popular, attract spectators-that is, according to the main account-consumers of advertising and an impermeable number of expensive clothes and equipment (and if there are five rings, then some penny will fall). That is, it is necessary to constantly expand the territory of the consumption of the Olympic Games by involving new participating participants in the holiday (this is unconditionally). Adults buy little, mature - skiing, tennis rackets and clothes, youth everything that and what you can slide down from the hill is better with snowy, where there is snow.

In the box for short tracks, the sides are soft. They often fall there. At the site, the crowding of Asian cities. There are traffic rules, but they are quietly trying to get around. They interfere with each other scary, and this is called tactics. Spectators rejoice in the thick and worry when someone falls, but for the sake of these falls they often sit on the rostrum. At past games in the final, four leaders fell, and the fifth participant, who did not pretend to be at all, went around the lying and became the champion. However, I love dog running, and therefore I am watching with interest behind the races, however, I do not have enough artificial hare, behind which skaters could have rushed.

No one caught up with the Dutch. Photo: Yuri Growth - "New"

Spectators at Sochi games are generally not a shortage. They whistle, scream, wave flags like real fans, although there are many people burdened mainly by Krasnodar organizations. People rejoice, many for the first time ... Nothing bad except the suspicion that the Sochi World Historical holiday is not so popular among the domestic population. And this holiday is dear, as the last in life. Boris, a teacher of folk music from Chelyabinsk, came with the granddaughter of Valeria. For 9 days of competition - one per day - he paid about seventy thousand rubles. Housing - a private trader - a thousand per day (very cheap), food is incredibly expensive. Transport, souvenirs (at a price, so from precious plastics and brocade from cotton wool). In general, five thousand dollars in terms of rubles - put. And it is not known what you see. Boris was lucky - he fell into a classic Olympic look - skating in 500 meters in men. And the people were a lot to the very end. This is a cheerful run, that of men, what's in women. (Here they are dressed, unlike hockey players, very moderately, that pleasing to the eye.) They were ill, unawarely, without custom -made patriotism, with sympathy for the loser. We shouted more ours, but the Dutch art of skating was appreciated joyfully. What pleased those who were dumbfounded by the victory - the twins of Michel and Ronald Mülders and the second place of Yana Smeresens.

Podium winners. Champion Michel Mulder holds his head. Photo: Yuri Growth - "New"

And on the eve of the picture was different, and I remembered the story of my old comrade about how men in the old Baku watched the film “Wild Bara”. There, in lean Soviet times, the heroine appeared three seconds on the screen with a sparing open chest. Tickets for the session were sold, but by the beginning no one came. By the thirtieth minute, men were stuffed in the cinema and talked (conditionally) to the thirty -fifth. Then they freezed for the same three seconds, exhaled: "Wa!" And they left the hall.

When it became clear that the brackets did not fall into prizes at a distance of 5000 meters, the imported spectators left the hall, and the three other Dutchmen made their victories under the half empty stands. But, providence (!), Seats on the beautiful Adler Arena of the Orange "Dutch" color. The stadium itself pleased the winners.

And in the group tournament there were a lot of skaters. This is also "Olympic" competitions. Of course, we will rejoice for the adult Plushenko, who reliably rolled his program, and for the girl Julia, who is twice younger than him, and for the rest of the participants, but the feeling of stretching with this type of program remains. At least with me.

All images of games come here, and from this hardware go to the world. Throughout the world. Photo: Yuri Growth - "New"

Now about where it is better to watch the Olympic Games? At the TV. Hundreds of cameras and the best operators of the world are placed in places where neither the viewer, nor photographer, nor judge will fall. All this colorful information flows into the media center, where behind closed glass doors at a temperature of 11 to 12 degrees his Majesty server. All images enter the hardware, and from there a single signal is sent to the world for all consumer countries. An oral comment can be anything, even such as ours. But a picture of the highest quality. Mikhail Demin, who leads the technical (not ideological) provision of journalists - my good old comrade. He made it possible for readers of Novaya Gazeta to look at the television brain of games. Although, like everything truly significant, he looks modest. There, in a neighboring aquarium, also archival memory. It is worth showing her the character how she will find his image in any company and the situation. While we are talking about sports, the system does not scare. But I suspect that in her life sport plays the same insignificant role as in ours. And who is she in the main profession? Big Brother?

Do you think the main brains of the Olympic Games in Moscow? They are not here in this server. Photo: Yuri Growth - "New"