and talent or diligence look at talent - this is what is given to us from above, that is, we came here. yes, it must be found in a person, it must be found to unearth, but talent without diligence. it was simply wasted just a gift that was given to you, and diligence without talent. it still bears some fruit. but labor is what we see. we see the stars. uh, sporting people in business. here it is, uh, one with the other complex and talent and diligence because nothing, no matter what talent you have, without diligence is no talent sharpen.

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? it's standard for me. it's 5 years old. preschool age. uh, when else, uh, so to speak, the children in they don’t go to school, they need to be occupied with something. me parents. i got skates for my birthday. it must have been my wish, as far as i can remember, and, uh, open ice. eh, the 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

, a certain one arises. with no conflict and a desire to change everything, you had such a thing, but in fact i was engaged not only in figure skating. and my parents sent me, also to the jumping section in 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, jumping water and a after going there for a few months and learning how to swim. yes , i had to clean up because, uh, two coaches , one in figure skating and the other, and swimming said that you need to take it, because the ankle has to work. in one case, it has to be rigid and working, like uh figure skating or flexible elastic and uh, more like on you, as in swimming. yes, that is, two sports that are mutually exclusive in physiology, but uh, my success in figure skating at that time was already somewhat noticeable, and in the water world i was just a beginner, so uh, i had, in general, reasonable elections in favor of figure

skating, then of course for a later age as a teenager there were also doubts, do i need to do this at all, because there are schools, but the usual standard life, yes, but figure skating. uh, brought to my uh, youthful life, or something, variety, because there were trips to competitions, there was an opportunity to see other cities in other countries, which in soviet times was a rarity for an ordinary person, so uh, figure skating again, it was that door, but into a new world, probably a different world, er, 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 out as a singles skater, but pairing you with elena gross was the idea of ​​your coach there in moscow, how are you accepted this idea. well, in fact, i rejected three times, uh, the offer of moskvina, but in pair skating, and only on the third for the fourth

time. e. uh-huh, not quite correct, maybe by methods, as i understand today, but moskvina still persuaded me to take up skating as a guy, and my first partner was not lazy, my second partner was fluffy. the first was larisa selezneva, who then, together with oleg, uh, makarov, was our direct competitor, and for many years. so what uh fate so to speak e brings people together, not just like that, but how difficult it is for a single skater to become a pair for me. physically, probably, technically not very difficult. it's more moral. uh, some kind of step in a completely different direction, because, uh, a singles skater is, uh, a single person who is responsible for his own results. you went out, skated yourself, screwed up , or did everything well yourself and got the result yourself, the one that is and you yourself get the power of laurels or prize money or something else, this is one, and 7 share both good luck and failure and often. you can do everything

partnership and mess. or vice versa, the partner will do something, and you will break something somewhere, and then the results are natural, but you fall and you rejoice and suffer together, despite the fact that mistakes can be made by one of the partners, therefore pair skating is more. uh, so to speak, morally, but another sport, because you are not responsible for yourself. you are already in the team, even though it is a minimal team of two people, if the coaches do not consider the choreographers, then, uh, they are completely different. uh, 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, uh, compared to like-minded skating in a pair of e, you probably learn another dozen or fifteen new elements, which are in single skating. it simply does not exist, in addition to supporting this, both twists and releases, when the girl's partners send the jump

far high. todes, when this is such a figure, when a girl rides around a partner, yes, a pair of doctors, well, a lot of things, how do you they said both parallel and synchronized skating. you have to keep an eye on the partner, when you're the only one you throw at me. you take care of yourself and 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 such an opportunity to move forward. but still, moskvina guessed right with your duet in the eighty-third year you table 84th world champions won the olympics do you remember what you were thinking? eh, when i stood on a pedestal during the awards , i clearly remember, because in 83 it was

somehow so chaotic. we flew into the elite of the world figure, skating, won the european silver championships and gold at the world championships. and here, uh, the eighty-fourth year. he was already conscious, that is, we already understood. where why are we why and when did we stand on e, the olympics stopped the top step, again this can sound very strange, but the thought was one. why are we forbidden to smile and rejoice, but there was a ban, because the day before, a was one of the leaders of the soviet state. e hmm died and er, there was a round in the country and at our residence. e, at the olympics it 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 athletes. it was the soviet union, it was tough. it was an order from above that could not be violated. and this, to be honest. it's left. here, in my heart so far, that it can

be the only one and the first one of its kind. 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 - this is a drake makaru. uh, what's the fight story? was she at all? and who is wine anyway? well, actually it's a fight, as such, it was not. uh, this is uh, almost commonplace. uh, such a case in training, when one couple rides to the music, the other according to unwritten laws. uh, figure skating should be inferior to those who skate to the music. yeah, uh, a couple of tears. makarov not yielded to us riding 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, a

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oleg , in general, there is friendship between athletes in it , ice, or still some kind of sports competition, it does not contribute to friendship, a team

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, where did i work in the soviet union? i skated or where am i now the head coach of the republic of belarus we have a national team of the republic of belarus but each athlete in the world of figure skating is a separate unit and everyone fights for his place under the sun. one first place. but it is not divided by all and and this is stamped on e. hmm attitude. we are all friends we have no enmity, per se, but when it comes to rivalry on the ice. 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 and elena

gross finished performing and became the first couples in the soviet union, who turned professionals, it is difficult to be pioneers for sure and are officials really. did not try to prevent you from being pioneers. as you said, it’s really not easy, especially in a country that is closed to everyone and everything. but there were many obstacles, there were many difficulties. uh, well, naturally a mentor and uh, with our friends. we were still able to make this path. the path from e soviet sport to professional e, world sport was far from easy, there were a lot of difficulties, and in order for us to get permission to participate in some international shows, uh, which the soviet union did not shine then, and the world community has been doing this for a long time, it was very difficult. e, 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 in our footsteps also went to perform in various shows e not only in the united states of america in europe and asia you skated in shows, performed at professional competitions, and suddenly you decided to go into business in the yard of lee hay in the nineties, as the sphere perceived, in

which reigned relations far from athletic. well , in fact, as if e left, i didn’t voluntarily leave figure skating, but my partner, and at that time we were already divorced. we were separate people. yes, she had her own life. uh, mom, in addition to skating, yes, and she and her husband decided that they needed to have children, which means that a normal life was an idea. in general, my partner, to finish, uh, performance on the ice and do some other in her case, family life, and in my case, something else. yes, and then with friends really started to uhm try his hand at business and we did everything. from selling used shoes to selling new luxury cars and uh, it was interesting, it wasn't easy. dangerously. uh. i uh 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, and i came to my partner to the line. and a told her to come back after the birth of a child persuaded me to return to the ice and we returned and we began to ride and we skated a few shows. uh, a few months. we performed successfully. uh, but then, after all, lena said that my family was dearer to me there, 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, from the inside, you understand and know everything. what happens on the ice feels like moving on technique all over, but uh what's different global coaching from uh to uh athlete who goes out himself, and when does the athlete leave? i

go out as an athlete. i myself answer 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 ca n'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 can do, there are three or four minutes, as good as possible in 2016 you, uh, you performed in the television show ice age 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. e hmm, my happiness was spontaneous, i didn’t expect this at all ilya verbukh didn’t assume this, but there was such a situation that ilya a, but didn’t have a partner for dasha and after calling a number of people, he turned to me already as, probably, to last hope

because, ah, i was coaching and how would i have absolutely no time to participate in some kind of television project there , not television. that's when ilya called me. it was very unexpectedly spontaneous. we agreed that a certain number of uh hmm 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 an incomplete cycle of the ice age, but some specific segment, so that through this door time to find dasha a new partner with whom she could complete this project. therefore, for the tv of the public for the basket - it was a story, but in reality it was an agreed period, which we pasted, so to speak, 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 mine data is to say passport numbers when i was born, yes, uh, that's it, it was far from easy, but uh, we withstood everything. and i believe, 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 go from one coach to another. it is very difficult and very, shall we say, delicate. the topic of difficult questions cannot be answered unequivocally, and any coach from a beginner to a coach of olympic champions puts his soul into his own self to his athlete. and ah, when an athlete

decides to move from one coach to another, then 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. it's a mentor something good, passing from one mentor. well i don't say weekly, yeah but after that two, three, five years of classes. 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. hey, 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 we learn from people, the knowledge that, uh, these mentors share with us. it's completely normal to

move on. e from one mentor that you received, the maximum of what you wanted to receive differently, 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, and it is probably the cornerstone of success, that is, uh , and the most important thing for him to be an athletic coach is to be daily. e at work in training. in this case, work daily from and to 100%. if , uh, an athlete is ready to do it, otherwise the athlete is not ready, then, of course, uh, you have 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 of success. sometime

every day at work. 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 accepted the invitation to become the head 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, immediately go to a completely different plane to immediately accept the offer. it must have been really adventurous, so uh, my first year, but today is almost a year. yes, for a few months i looked closely, i honestly frankly said to e and the minister of sports of the presidents of the skating federation that i need some time to figure out whether or not i can do what is kind of required of me , uh, if i accept this position. uh, so i

looked closely, tried on, and came here for some for some period 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. uh, i think it's within my power, i can do it. work together it's been almost 3 years. what has been accomplished 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 before. this is a task completed period page. now i need

to raise all belarusian skating. need to look for it belarusian stars, who need to be raised there for five dashes of eight years in order to have a result, so this work is very long and very viscous, and the results of this part of my contract. they will, apparently, only uh, after some nth number of years, but interesting work continues and uh, i'll be honest. there are a lot of talented children in belarus. well, if we don’t talk about sports, what impressed you the most, when you moved to belarus cleanliness, uh, cleanliness on the street and uh, hmm very uh, very interesting simple open people. that is you can talk to any person on the street, and it will be interesting and instructive, you know that. uh, i've worked in many countries and traveled through even more countries. uh. well, probably, uh, the people of belarus are the most, and the open simple ones are not at all and accessible as, so to speak, that'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 rest of the time together with the port and tourism national olympic committee of the federation speed skating. well, s. uh, roughly speaking from 22:00 to 8:00 in the morning. i'm talking about at my place somewhere in the kennel, therefore, with any places. i'm trying. i 'm trying to go somewhere. eh, when friends come to visit us. we are trying to go to the old city to go to these some interesting and good places, there are many places and there is probably no such favorite, and all the places where we have been and the food is tasty and interesting and , uh, there are a lot of people. well, that is, like this, so that i can’t say that there is something i love. well, where else , where we won’t come, everywhere it’s good that, in addition to figure skating, inspires you and gives you strength. 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 with my wife. uh, and we've been to a lot of weird ones already, 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 is called the meaning of life for you. what is the meaning of life speed i will try to somehow concentrate it to get the maximum. uh, the amount of knowledge in the area in which you found yourself and then in the second half of your life to share this younger generation. thank you it was the meaning of oleg vasiliev's life