with skepticism, because it was all just three sports that i had never practiced , it was something so new, and i was a little so somewhere, maybe even disappointed, but i think, i will try, well, you saw that blind people, that's it lawyers, my parents always told me, but i clearly remember, there from the fifth to the 10th grade, serhii, you will go to law school, from the fifth to the 10th grade i say, i will not go, go somewhere you want, i say this suits me, and already at the stage when i... entered the hygienic mid-college and decided that i would study there 700 km from home, we already had physical education there and the teacher then came in and said that there is such a game, golbol, me and my head of the group, kolya mytsik, says, let's try it, then let's try it. goalball is a game that was

invented to rehabilitate people who lost their sight during world war ii. the pitch is 9/18 m, the goal is 9 m by 30 m, and three players play in one team. we play with a ball, it weighs 250 polos, it has bells inside. the task is to throw the ball into the goal of the other team. i have a friend , serhiy medyanik, who heads the club patriotic education of youth. when i joined the national team, i needed training, and he suggested to me that there is a very good gym where i can work out, where they will help me, let's say, open the door to sports. especially now. what i saw, i

saw iryna the coach, and i was scared, because, well, it is clear that verina has good sports training. she has such determination and character, and i was afraid that i wouldn't be able to cope, that i wouldn't be able to, she explained to me that the main thing in sports is discipline. i think, well, i'll try fencing, and drive, emotions, even they are just a training fight there, but i felt that it was something interesting, and accordingly, i came there the next time, tried it, i liked it, the same fencing as the olympic one, that is, in classical fencing, athletes

move on a track that has appropriate dimensions, appropriate parameters, we fence on a platform that is placed on the same track , this is where the difference ends, we sit on carts, they move on their feet, and in october we went to the championship for the first time of ukraine and we went to yevpatoria and somewhere in yevpatoriya there is some kind of base, well, it was like for me, well, there are some, probably something like that, it will be a little scary, some conditions are not great, but when i arrived, i saw that these are very good conditions, that there are many people with amputation, that is, i trained there for three months and the third month, of course, which can also say about the level of that, that is, it was

still much lower than now, but it also indicates that i always usually showed more than i could at that time, in my opinion, in the first place not not technique, no tactics, psychology is in the first place, we had a college gym in our college, then we found both players and a judge, who ruled for us there. whistled and said: our teacher came like this, he said: well, which team won, well, here, well, you know a bunch of dried fish, he said: "guys, study, we will go to the championship of ukraine." we didn't stand in the positions we should have, we didn't play like that, we roughly knew the rules, we even laughed at... and we took the last

place there, but still we went the second time. as i tell the boys when we go out on play a half game, guys, the main thing is to score one more, you can miss 10, but score 11, and even here you can fall 25 times, but get up 26, i am the captain of the team, the guys gave me such trust, as they say, maybe because of age, because for them i am both a father and a grandfather to some extent, the point is that... some people who have lost their sight already at a mature age and are not prepared for life in the dark, they panic a little, withdraw into themselves and lead a closed way of life, i am not ready for this, i am always preparing to learn something new,

and when i lost my sight, yes, it was unpleasant, yes, i was a little lost, a little did not know where to go, because you were the center of attention all the time, talked with many people and stayed here... alone, well, thank you to the guys, invasport, they pulled me out, my story in the national team of ukraine had already begun, that is, i came abroad for international competitions , no one knew me, i was there with the last rating, i started to bite and it went pretty quickly for me, at the second competition i won european championship. i wasn't ready for this i was not ready for the fact that i would have such a cut, that i would get into the national team , that they would give me a uniform, it was such a joy for me

when they gave me that first uniform, that everyone was like oh, there is something of poor quality, it is dragging, and i was ready, well, not to kiss her, but it was so expensive for me, i still have her , by the way, the first uniform, but i wasn’t so afraid, and i was especially scared when i went to the bedside table while swimming , we were supposed to have three participants and there was some delay from the opening of the competition and i am leaving alone, i am opening the competition, i am leaving alone for this bedside table, i had such horror and fear , just panic , the swimming coach helped me, you know, he gave me a friendly hand and said that everything will be fine, you trained, you shot. just go out and do what you know when you arrived,

sports ambassadors are people, they are veterans, who should promote veteran sports among veterans. to explain the possibilities to people, and as i see this task for myself, it is to help create these possibilities, well, you know, this is exactly the stage of repair, when it is still visible that the repair is underway, but there is already what is already there the result, wow, everything is here, you see, everything has been completely translated, and well, the pool bowl and the windows have been redone, before it was completely dark here , they did it, there is a special toilet in the shower rooms, there will be one shower for the disabled, the door is just on

wide enough for a wheelchair to pass through, and there the lift will still stand empty, it has not been installed yet, when i started playing sports , they created for me, you know, almost greenhouse conditions, they gave me a gym, a trainer, a swimming pool, i had everything, what i wanted, free and all, and i really want such an opportunity for all veterans, for all people with disabilities, so that they can live a full life. where do children go with this potential, energy, why i always say, we cooperate very closely with the city councils, with the heads of the otg, and i explain to them that a veteran is a very big potential for guns, very big, huge, but it all depends on which direction to whom to direct it, or it will create something, or it will destroy, that is , you choose, well, i will say this, the camera has been following me

for a long time, um, i was interviewed for mine. they interviewed for work and sports, no it's started, sit down here, we'll plant now, something else. shooting in a film, yes, this is a new challenge, it is a challenge, they prepared, i agreed to it, not even immediately, well, without thinking, they offered me, i agreed, i am interested, i am interested in the process itself, and again i.. to refuse, it's still a responsibility, i'm not an actor, emotions

are hard to show, i won't show them, i don't remember what most emotions look like on a person's face, i don't remember almost the reflection of my face in the mirror, and i here, we are doing it, we are sick of this project, we we give the strength we have. machen weiter noch? when

everyone hears everyone, then the project is successful. finding and, as they say, involving a child in systematic sports is now much more difficult than it was before, telephones, there-sphere, well, they take away from us, as they say, those who want to, sometimes you think that you no longer have the strength.

then you, you see these eyes and you understand that you are giving something to people, well , sometimes you have to stop, take a rest and these forces appear again, they want to show themselves, they want to check themselves, how much stronger they are, to socialize in order they have found a way in life, and this is one of the ways that we can offer , understanding that people with vision problems always have difficulties in this matter, to choose their own way, here they all communicate and they learn this communication and they open up , they understand that everyone around them is positive, everyone loves them, and this changes them.

when i fenced on the saber , my hand started to hurt very much and at that moment it didn't just hurt, but on the second day or a day later i also fenced on the rapier personal competitions, and it hurt me so much that when i squeezed my fingers, it almost brought me to tears, because i just despaired, i began to understand that everything is very bad, the meat, because of the tendons, it is a little breaks from the elbow, i realized that if i don't practice, it won't work, and i got the idea to try, practice with my left hand, that is, i just started fencing there with my left hand, it was very ... it's like you you start writing, you sweat, you get each one out, and here it's the same, you start

to fence, it is very difficult, plus they started beating me, in our jargon, they started to beat me, that is, they started to beat me weaker than me, and this had a purely psychological effect on me too, and about two days before the start of my competitions, and we did fencing on the first day , i decided to fence with my right hand and fenced so easily, well, it was like, there was no discomfort, but i was so tired, so tired, i was crazy , because my hand did not do anything, for so long, my hand hurts, i did not do anything for three months, and well what can be expected from him, that is, there was such a thing not that despair, but... but not enough, if very flattered. in the first match, i immediately beat a chinese player, whom i had never beaten before, 5:3, and for me it was just such a sign that i could fight, i facted with my right hand.

then i beat a greek who was very problematic for me, in general, that day i didn’t get along very well with the group , i had everyone, whoever i didn’t want, everyone came to me, there were two hong kongers, a greek, a chinese and a frenchman, the most an unpleasant place, because there is no medal, nothing, but when i won chinese, i began to understand that i am in the final and that perhaps such a chance is given once in a lifetime, in the second semi-final my friend from hungary was fencing. such things, and you and he got to the finals, and we, in principle, understood that this was our chance to become a paralympic champion, and this is a very big , strong chance. and it turned out that this match, he started better, he started to win. but then i managed

to break it. well, i say, this moment, it was a super moment , some class super, as if you didn't dream about it, it was so cool that i i don’t even know... it’s, well, in fencing we had one gold medal at the paralympic games in our whole life, anton also won that day, we won two golds in one day, two golds for lev, for ukraine, and we from the same school together, well, in principle, this is my best friend, a teacher, so it was just a mega result.

and it was so cool that the anthem of ukraine was played twice and for me it was really the best moment, i had two friends who died in ato, and i dedicated this medal to them, because these are really the people who sacrificed myself, for the sake of our country being free and independent, i very much hope that this evil will leave ukraine and that we will live again peacefully and happily, in the position we were in, that is, in the district happiness under the cheerful mountain, began mortar shelling, and according to preliminary data, we believed that an assault was about to begin.

and the shelling began, i got up, ran to the room in which we lived in order to get my weapon, but at the time when i ran in, i grabbed the machine gun where it was lying, i realized that something must be wrong with me by an explosive wave, it broke through the roof and broke up with me in the room, the room was quite small 3.4 is 120 mines, i received severe burns in connection with the explosion, which was very, there the clothes melted, exposed parts. well, hell, i was already carried by this explosive wave under the table, it exploded on the arrester, i was standing and it exploded somewhere at such a height and all the fragments went higher, and those that already hit me were already ricochets,

after the explosion i became deaf, i was nothing i didn't see, i didn't hear anything, i didn't quite understand at first i thought that i had died in general, then i think, but no, there must be no light at the end of the tunnel, so something is wrong here, and i realized that i am still alive, but my legs are clouding, i decided that i do not feel them , that is, that my legs were torn off, and i had such a moment of weakness, when i always had a grenade on my belt, that i took out this grenade and i had such a feeling that... well, there are no legs, who needs me, well, i won't be able to, i won't be able to do anything at all, i won't be able to continue living normally, i won't have a life it won't be normal, and there was a moment when i wanted to tear off this ring, but then i started moving my fingers and felt that there are such legs, and to be honest, for many years i thought that

it was the right thing to do, that i did the right thing and that maybe it was worth it, and that's what i thought until i got into the national team. who are in wheelchairs, who have traumatic amputations, what they do, how they compete, how they live, how i understand, now i understood that i was wrong, that i was 100% wrong and that all the obstacles are here, loss of hand, loss legs, even when you're on wax , or even when you've lost your sight, you just...' bring this world, i long for change, i want this change, i like movement, i like the same goalball that doesn't give me just

stay at home, move, develop, vision loss is not the end, it can only be the beginning , i'm 45 years old, i've never played professional sports, i'm here, i started doing it, and you'll be fine.

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