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the name of my idol is included in the history of world figure skating. he became not only an outstanding figure skater, but also an eminent coach among his students . olympic champions and prize-winners of the world and european championships,

oleg vasilyev, head coach of the belarusian figure skating team, is visiting me today. good morning. oleg propose to start our conversation from childhood. do you remember how old you were when you first stepped on the ice? i have it standard. it's 5 years old. preschool age. hey, when else can i say that? children do not go to school, they need to be occupied with something. me parents. i got skates for my birthday. it must have been my desire, as far as i can remember, and uh, yes, open ice. eh, frozen lakes are all according to the standard, as it was in those days when, at the age of 5, for you, in fact, they choose your whole future life, then already in adolescence there is some kind of internal conflict and you had such a desire to change everything, but on actually did not only figure skating. and my parents gave me away, and the section also came into the water. and in order for me to learn how to simply swim corny, because the swimming section was completely packed with children, it

was impossible to get there. i was enrolled in the section, uh, diving and a after going there for a few months, learning how to swim. yes, i had to clean it up, because uh, 2 coaches, one in figure skating, the other, and swimming said that you need to take it, because the ankle should work. in one case, it must be tough and working, like uh figure skating or flexible elastic and uh, more like power, like swimming. yes, that is, two sports that are mutually exclusive to each other in physiology. uh, my figure skating success at that time was already somewhat noticeable, and in the water world i was only a beginner, so uh, i had generally reasonable choices in favor of figure skating, then definitely under the later age teenagers were there i also have doubts, do i even need to do this, because there is a school, but the usual standard life, yes, but figure skating. uh, it brought variety to my, uh, youthful life, or something, because there were trips to competitions, there was an opportunity to see

other cities in other countries, which in soviet times was very rare for an ordinary person, so uh, again, figure skating, this there was that door, uh, to a new world, probably a different world, uh, different from all my peers. that is, i had a lot of pluses compared to the lives of my friends in my sports career. you started as a singles skater, but paired you up with elena ivanova was your idea. there muscovite, how did you accept this idea, but in fact, i rejected it three times. uh, a proposal from moscow. ah, pair skating, and, in my opinion, for the third for the fourth time. uh, hmm, not quite correct. maybe by methods, as i understand today, but moskvina still persuaded me to take up skating, uh, a guy, and my first partner was not lazy. lena was my second partner. the first was larisa selezneva, who then, becoming a couple with oleg

e, makarov, was our direct competitors, and for many years. so, that fate, so to speak, e brings people together, not just like that, but how difficult it is for a single skater to become a couple. physically, probably, technically not very difficult. it's more moral. uh, some kind of step in a completely different direction, because uh, a single skater is uh a person, one responsible for sanctions for your results, you went out skated yourself screwed up. he did a good job there, and he got the result himself. the one that exists and you yourself receive all laurels, then a medal or prize money, or there is something else one, but in a pair you have to share everything and good luck and failure and, uh, often. you can do everything about the partnership, your screw up or vice versa, the partner will do, and you will break something somewhere, and ah, then the results are natural, but you fall and you rejoice and suffer together, despite the fact that the mistakes you can allow one of the partners, so pair skating is more. uh, so to speak morally uh

another sport, because you are not responsible for yourself. you are already in the team, even though this is the minimum team of two people, if they consider coaches and choreographers, then, uh, completely different. eh, moral and psychological attitudes and tasks , after all, new elements appear in the technical plan. support. the need for synchronized skating. this is easy to master on the basis of a common base, because single skating in pairs. uh, you are probably studying another dozen or fifteen new elements that simply do not exist in single skating, in addition to lifts and twists and throws, when the girl’s partner sends far high todes into the jump. here, when this is such a figure, when a girl rides around a partner, yes, paired doctors, well, a lot of things, as you said, and in parallel synchronized skating. you have to keep an eye on your partner when you're the only one you didn't throw. follow. you look after yourself there, do what you need to achieve

the result. and here, that is, you always have to and, as it were, control the situation 100%, where you are, where your partner is nearby, the distance, speed, and so on is completely different, but again, this is all interesting. it's all new, it's all that gives you the opportunity to move forward. but still moskvina guessed right with your duet in the eighty- third year you won the olympics eighty-fourth world champion table do you remember what you were thinking? eh, when i stood on the podium during the awards, i clearly remember, because in 83 it was somehow so chaotically flown into the elite, world figure skating, won the silver european championship gold at the world championships. and here , uh, the eighty-fourth year. he was already conscious, that is, we already understood. where why and for what and when we stood on e, the top step

stopped the olympics again, this may sound very strange, but there was only one thought. why are we forbidden to smile and rejoice, but there was a ban, because the day before, one of the e, the head of the soviet state. e hmm died and a in the country was a round and so on our residence. e at the olympics was lowered and e, respectively , there was an indication from above that no expressions of positive expressions e, emotional joy should not be on the faces of the athletes. it was the soviet union, it was tough. it was an order above, which could not be broken. and this, to be honest. it's left. right here in my heart so far, that, uh, maybe the only one and the first one like that. here is a pure frank victory. yes, but we couldn't rejoice, and we kept all the emotions inside us. i can't help but ask. e you have, and relationships. e with a couple with your eternal rivals - these are the drake makarov, e, what kind of story is this with a fight? was

she at all? and who is wine anyway? well, actually it's a fight, as such, it was not. uh, it's uh, almost would be banal usual. uh, such a case in training, when one pair rides to the music, the other according to, uh, unwritten laws. uh, figure skating should be performed by those who skate to the music. yes, a pair of selezneva makarov they did not give way to us skating to the music. i drove up and said that they were either injecting vasya or there, in this case, oleg, you are wrong. here he turned away. uh, well uh, and then what happened happened. yes, it was annoying. yes, it was uh case, which then uh and the figure skating federation, tried it somehow put out. well, because they often get to the point of physical assault, but uh, that was it's gone by now. we have a normal ordinary human relationship. i think that in five years, in seven. we somehow reconciled ourselves to the fact that

it was and lived through this situation, yes, and began to live on, like ordinary normal civilized people. that is, after 40 years, there are absolutely no mutual relations. oleg

, in general, there is friendship between athletes in it , ice, or still some kind of sports competition, it does not contribute to team friendship sport, it is individual, even though the couple is a small team. it 's still an individual sport, that is, we are every man for himself. we have a team, as such, there is none. and although there is a national team. in this case, there is the soviet union where i worked. tosa or where? i am now the head coach in the republic of belarus we have a national team of the republic of belarus but every athlete in the world of figure skating. he is a separate unit and everyone is fighting for his place under the sun; the first place alone is not divided into everyone. and and this puts a stamp on em 's attitude. we are all friends we have no enmity, as such, but when it comes to ice rivalry. every man for himself and here. e, about any friendship, but there can be no question, no one will yield

to you, they will not tell you, go and be ahead of me. yes, but leaving the flight a lot. i would say that almost all of us are friends and are very good friends in 1988. you ate the shafts, you finished performing and became the first couple in the soviet union, who went over to professionals. definitely be a pioneer difficult and didn’t the officials really try to prevent you from being pioneers, as you said, it’s really not easy, especially in a country closed to everyone and everything, and there were many obstacles, there were many difficulties, but from our mentor tamara nikolaevsky and a with our friends. we were still able to pave the way from e-soviet sports to professional sports. ah, the global dispute. it was far away. not only were there a lot of difficulties, but in order for us to get permission to participate in some international events, i found, uh, with which the soviet union did not shine even

then, but the world community had been doing this for a long time , it was very difficult. eh, we went through the bureaucratic wall and and it was, in general, useful for everyone , both for us and for future generations, who later followed ours. also perform in various shows, not only in the united states of america, in europe and in asia,

you skated in shows, performed at professional competitions, and suddenly you decided to go into business in the yard of the dashing nineties, as the sphere in which relations were far from sporting perceived. well in fact, as it were, i left figure skating not voluntarily, but my partner, but for that period. maybe we got divorced as separate people. yes, she had her own life. uh, in addition to skating, yes, and she and her husband decided that they need to have children and that means a normal life. no, that was the idea. basically my partner, to finish. uh, performing on the ice and doing something different in her case of family life, and in my case, something else. yes, and then my friends and i really started to uhm try myself in business, and we've handled everything from selling used shoes to selling new cars. you can see them and, uh, it was interesting, uh, it was not easy.

dangerous, uh i found out. how much is my head worth, and in that period of time in the business world, uh, and uh hmm to be honest after a year of just over a year of classes. uh, it's not related to figure skating. i realized that figure skating is still more interesting to me, hmm. i came to my partner to lena and persuaded her to return after the birth of the child, persuaded her to return to ice and we returned and the place began skate and we skated a few shows. uh, a few months. we performed successfully. eh, but then, after all, lena said that the family is dearer to me, and then that's when my coaching work began. and how difficult was it to switch. uh, to the new coaching and deliver. well, it’s easy and just easy, because after all, uh, you from the inside, understand and know everything that happens according to the sensations of moving through the technique around, but uh

, what’s different? global coaching from uh to an athlete who goes out himself. uh, when do the athletes leave? i go out as an athlete. i myself i answer everything here. i know that i can do it myself. i fixed it myself. i myself, uh, decided my fate. and here you release athletes on the ice, standing behind the sides. you can't do anything with everything you put into it. eh, already further, he must implement himself, that is, your task. in fact , let the athlete down so that he can do what he knows how to do. in those three or four minutes, you performed as well as possible in the television show ice age in 2016 in your partner was the actress daria moroz that's right, initially everything went fine high scores positive reviews, but in the middle of the project you decided to leave, why? well, actually, i'll tell you a little secret. uh, hmm, my participation was spontaneous, if i didn’t expect it at all and ilya verbukh didn’t expect it, but there

was such a situation that ilya didn’t have a partner for dasha and after calling a number of people, he turned to me as, probably, to the last nadezhda because , well, i trained and how it would be absolutely not up to me to participate in some kind of television project there not television. that's when lily called me. it was very unexpectedly spontaneous. we agreed that a certain number of uh uh shoots i can do three or four or five. i don't remember now. how many episodes, yes, and i, in my load time, was ready to highlight this in my schedule. therefore, we said that it would be incomplete, but hmm, the ice age cycle, but some specific period, so that it would be time to find dasha a new partner with whom she could complete this project, so uh for tv. it was a story, but in reality it

was a time limit. which we covered up to say this, this project, so that dasha could participate in it. and well, it was honestly interesting and difficult for me, because this is insanely hard work. you should be skating with uh. hmm man who, uh, well, isn't very good at skating. yes, and considering, a, my slight detachment from daily training. and a. uh, hmm, my data, so to speak, passport numbers when i was born, yes, uh, that's it, it was far from easy, but uh, we withstood everything. and i believe the god who was, uh, easy. e shocked by his proposal himself. yes, he says, i did not expect that i could. and to be a mentor to a person who coached even when i myself performed.

before that, i asked you about friendship between athletes, and now i ask about friendship between coaches. how do you feel about the fact that athletes move from one coach to another. this is a very difficult and, let's say, very delicate topic. difficult questions cannot be

answered unequivocally by any coach from a beginner to a coach. olympic champions puts their soul to their own self to their athlete. and uh, when an athlete decides to move from one coach to another, the coaches tear off a piece of themselves, so, uh, morally - it's very hard, but on the other hand. if we ignore some emotional things, then, in principle, this is a very correct and useful way of growth. athlete. every athlete. beret. this mentor is something good, passing from one mentor. i don't say weekly, yeah but after that two, three, five years of study. he takes better from this mentor, passes to another and looks for something good and new in the new mentor, that is, betrayal. you don't consider it. absolutely not. it's not a betrayal it really is. well look. we're at school. uh, let's get out of class. we are changing our mentors. we are leaving school for the university; we have new mentors at the

university. and that's okay. we learn from people, the knowledge that, er, these mentors share with us. this is absolutely normal. eh, so say go. e from one mentor that you received, the maximum of what you wanted to receive in another, who can give you more and better, or something completely new and completely unknown. you consider yourself a strict coach. well, rigor is such a concept, i am a supporter of discipline, that is, discipline in sports. uh, she is probably the cornerstone of success, that is, uh and an athletic coach for him, the most important thing is to be daily. e at work in training. in this case, work daily from and to 100%. if uh, the athlete is ready to do it, otherwise the athlete is not ready, then, of course, it is necessary to force him to persuade him. e, e, agree with the athlete that it should be done after all. e discipline. in

my opinion, maybe not everyone will agree. in my opinion discipline. in sports, this is the basis for success when you are at work every day. yes, every day you fulfill 100% of the plan set by the coach and you will achieve success sooner or later, uh, which, so to speak, to which you are going in 2019 . you have accepted the invitation to become the leader coach of the belarusian national team why did you call this step adventurous in one of your interviews? tell me honestly, because the position of a bureaucrat is very different from the position of a coach, and i was an athlete and coach until the nineteenth year. and and just like that, right away, uh, go to a completely different plane to immediately accept the offer. it must have been really adventurous, so uh, my first year. well, in general, almost a year. yes, for a few months i looked closely, i honestly frankly said e and the minister of sports and the presidents of the federation

speed skating that i need some time to figure out whether or not i can do what is kind of required of me uh hmm if i accept this position so i've been looking around trying on and coming here for periods of time, and returned back to russia. but in the end. well, it's getting closer to 2020. i said yes. i'm interested. it's new it. eh, i think it's up to me, i can do it. it will work it's been almost 3 years. what has been done during this time, in fact, a lot yes one of the tasks set has been completed. we have completely returned the belarusian figure skating to the olympic ice, and at the last olympics in beijing , uh, two athletes of the republic of belarus in single skating. it was victoria safonova and konstantin milyukov who performed at the olympics and performed very well to the maximum of their

capabilities. and this was one of those tasks that were set. this task is completed. the page is turned. now i need to lift all belarusian skating. we need to look for belarusian stars, which, uh, are needed. there five or eight years grow in order to have a result, so this is a very long and very viscous job and the results of this part of my contract. they will probably only be, uh, after some nth number of years, but the work is interesting work continues and uh, i'll be honest. there are a lot of talented children from belarus. well, if we are not talking about sports, what impressed you the most, when you moved to belarus cleanliness, uh, cleanliness on the streets and uh, hmm very uh, very interesting simple open people. that is, you can talk with any person on the street, and it will be interesting and instructive you know it here. uh, i've worked in many countries and traveled through

even more countries. e. well, probably, uh, the people of belarus are the most. uh, open simples are not available at all as, so to speak, here's an opponent. and it is captivating. do you have any favorite places in minsk honestly i uh spend uh 80-90% of the time at my established place of work. the rest of the time together in the ministry of sports and tourism, the national olympic committee of the skating federation. well, s. uh, rude speaking from 22:00 to 8:00 am. i'm talking about at my place somewhere in the kennel, therefore, with any places. i try. i'm trying to go somewhere. uh, when friends come to visit us, we try to go to the old city, to go to these interesting places, and, uh, there are many good places and there is probably no such favorite, and all the places where we have been and the food is delicious and interesting and e people a lot. well, that is, like this, so that something i love, i can’t say what

it was, but where again, where we won’t come everywhere it’s good that in addition to figure skating, you inspires and empowers you. i love to travel lately this is very difficult but i find the opportunity and uh, i love to move around uh, around the world. uh, with my family with my children and my wife. uh, and we've pretty much strangely already visited and uh been to pretty much every corner of the world, and i'm from family and friends myself. i love to travel and, frankly, i advise everyone to do this for the general development in order to see what a beautiful world we have around us. well, the last question. our program called the meaning of life for you. what is the meaning of life , it won’t even work out briefly, but i will try to somehow concentrate this to get the maximum amount of knowledge in the area in which you have found yourself. and

then in the second half of life to share this younger generation. thank you it was the meaning of oleg vasiliev's life what you need to know about the sacrament of communion regular participation in the sacrament of communion brings our spiritual life into a certain tone? why icons work wonders there yong has become a skinny chassis? i think yak uh, i bring you courts deliverance or deliverance. oh yes, helping. what is the basis of a person’s spiritual life with the end of a person’s earthly life, the opportunity to change something in oneself ends, if on earth a

person was able to cleanse his soul and adorn it with virtue, then in this state his soul enters eternity. what is the power of faith that is manifested in the temple when we are present at the service. this is manifested in our families when we try our children's loved ones there. still educate uh the basis, which is observance of the commandments of god answers these and other questions in the spiritual educational projects on belarus 24 tv channel. we saw how active our society is our people. i withstood it didn't break, that i believed. anyway, sometimes it's definitely better to be silent than to speak, but it's also important to speak on time and be heard by the project. speak in silence about people who have something to say about

themselves and about everything that excites the guests of the studio , government officials, artists, athletes, book authors, and businessmen, successful individuals who have reached heights and continue to move towards the beautiful and wise, so you need to think even more and make a balanced decision to give your desires to be useful to someone give your desires, and do something conditionally for someone, they are ready to share with you a source of motivation and life experience, don't miss it on tv channel belarus 24.

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