
Roman Tereshkov. Photo: Stanislav Krasilnikov / TASS
In every sense we have reached idiocy. Such a stupid skirmish is ten years ago and it was difficult to imagine. And today we can only measure patriotism. So what happened? The world champion and coach of the Olympic champions of Tatyana Navka and Roman Kostomarov Alexander Zhulin in a recent interview powerfully touched the deputies who believe that the games should be boycott and not be content with participation in a neutral status (if this option still appears). This is what Zhulin said.
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“Everyone should do their own business. Therefore, they [deputies] let the mouths also do not open that the athletes, they say, should not go. They plowed for 30 years for this, put all health. The Olympiad is the top of everything. I myself have always been a supporter of the fact that at least in the box, but I have to get to the Olympics. I myself am an athlete, I understand that a person has been preparing all his life, and he is deprived of the holiday. (...) The chance to go to the Olympics and take a place in the three is exactly what we ride. I would stand in the position of athletes in this matter. ”
In addition, calling the boycott of the games a wrong step, Zhulin looked into a strange, parliamentary pocket: “This is a mistake. Anyway, the athlete will tell him: “In fact, it is bad at 450-500 thousand (rubles) per month. How are you, dear deputies, when the whole country has 18. ” This is not good, right, right? Or are they all such celestials there? "
The legendary Tatyana Tarasova also supported her former student:
“I think Alexander Zhulin says correctly about the deputies. I think that you do not need to boycott international competitions and you do not need to urge athletes to do this. If possible, we must participate. ”
Roman Tereshkov was not long in coming and erupted by an angry tirade of honored trainers:
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“Tarasova, like Zhulin, put their careers athletes above all. State interests worry them little, for them the main titles and fees. They are typical representatives of world sports. Soviet sport has always been associated with national pride. And in Russian sports, under the federal law, the athlete is endowed with high right to speak on behalf of the Russian Federation under the flag and with the coat of arms on the chest. Not with the opportunity to speak with the national flag, as the business trainers of Tarasov and Zhulin interpret it, namely, with an inextricable civil duty for an athlete of Russia. In the meantime, competencies are enough for them only to conduct the promotion of Russia's deprivation of state sovereignty in the world sports arena, as required by the collective West. Russia is not needed by such business trainers, our country always kept on patriots. ”
In less than a day, as the “Business Coachs” amicably answered the “servant of the people”. Tatyana Anatolyevna's indignation knew no bounds:
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“What is the case with us? God is the judge to him. It would be better if he took up his direct duties, and not discussed us. Tereshkov does not understand what the work of coaches and athletes is. Let him sit in his place and do not tweet! The results of our work are known throughout the world. Our multiple victories adorn our homeland! ”
Alexander Zhulin also issued a series of chic Twizov:
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“I think we do not need deputies like Tereshkov. I am an absolute patriot, I just express my opinion. What is my nonpatriotism - I can’t understand at all. I am a huge patriot of our country and all that is happening in Russia. I just call a spade a spade and do not twist its tail. ”
Here to finish all their diving and not very actors to all adequate and not very actors, and to begin their duties. 59-year-old Juline-to train, and 43-year-old Tereshkov-try to do at least something useful. But Roman Igorevich took up the pen and in the telegram channel on the points explained who is Zhulin and what is patriotism. And for the heap, I also branded the President of the Tennis Federation Shamil Tarpishchev. This passage:
From the telegram channel of Roman Tereshkov
“Alexander Zhulin, named after his artillery grandfather, he believes that for the athlete priority is the Olympics, not the homeland. Julin does not need representatives of the people in the State Duma of the Russian Federation, defending the interests of Russia. I explain to Zhulin what his nonpatriotism is. Zhulin's statement is pure Oxymoron. He builds the figures of speech in which it combines the ideas opposite in meaning to create the necessary effect of pseudo -dopatriotism:
The absolute patriot of Russia is a US citizen;
The absolute patriot of Russia can train athletes of other countries for victories over the athletes of Russia;
The absolute patriot of Russia can promote the performances of Russian athletes without a national flag and anthem during the global confrontation of the West and Russia;
The athlete of Russia dreams of the Olympics without the flag and anthem of Russia.
All this is from the row: a believer atheist, wet fire, hot ice, coal-black whiteness, truthful lies and holy immorality. The task of Zhulin, Tarasova and Tarpishchev is to break the nascent patriotic vector in Russian sports and continue the line of neutral athletes from Russia. There is a career, but there is no homeland. This patriot works for his country, and not on his pocket. The preparation of athletes of other countries for speeches against ours, the declination of our athletes to replace citizenship and to speak without a flag and anthem is a betrayal and state crime. ”
What? Shamil Anvyrovich, under whose leadership, our tennis players won three Davis Cups, and tennis players - four cups of the federation, did not enter into this monstrous “dispute” (at least for now). And from his “feed” would be driven to Tereshkova could be smeared. I don’t know how to break a patriotic vector, but to send an opponent to the 75-year-old Tarpishchev in a condition today.

What can I say. I’m not sure if Tereshkov knows, about which, unlike Zhulin and Tarasova and Tarpishchev, few people heard (even in Russia), what real patriotism is. However, he does not need this. He made it clear that athletes careers are not interested in the word at all. He is concerned with the so -called sports propaganda. More precisely, the opportunity to earn the approval of the authorities for their public and fashionable “firm” position. A loyal position. I almost have no doubt that if tomorrow Putin, for example, will say that you need to participate in the Olympics in any way, then Tereshkov will chase completely different songs with enthusiasm.
And the misunderstand of Dumts Tereshkova, why Tatyana Tarasova, Alexander Zhulin and other figured skating stars, who brought fame to Soviet and Russian sports, lived, trained and trained in America and Europe. Just
Here they were not needed in FIG in the 90s and early 2000s. They were not given ice and kicked out from the areas under various pretexts. And they, working there, won gold medals for the country who had thrown them. Moreover, they were conquered regularly.
In the USA, Tarasova, for example, prepared Ilya Kulik and Alexei Yagudin. And here the narrow -minded authorities reported about the victories of her students, forgetting to celebrate and reward their coach. At the same time, working for the ocean, she financed the figure skating school in Moscow.
And what did the country bring the unicorn to the country Roman Tereshkov, an ardent supporter of the introduction of FAN ID? The question is rhetorical. It is funny that until November 2022 he was also a member of the Supervisory Board of FC Khimki. And according to the results of this season, the near Moscow team, changing five coaches, shamefully flew to the first league.
... A clear definition of patriotism gave, in my opinion, Leo Tolstoy:
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“Patriotism in the simplest, most clear and undoubted meaning is nothing else for the rulers, as an instrument for achieving power -loving and selfish goals, and for managed - renunciation of human dignity, mind, conscience and slave subordination of themselves to those who are in power. So it is preached wherever patriotism is preached. ”
... And at the Olympics you need to break through with all its might. At least a carcass, at least a scarecrow.
