eight hundred is sound was fined three thousand six hundred euro the legal battle for compensation still goes on in this story made off often seen surance a hot topic in russia and media contained brought her plight to the nation and her medical costs were eventually paid but not every injured athlete gets such attention and public support. welcome to our program hello beautiful yeah well first of all let's start with the latest development school. are you happy with the court's ruling in the case of peter heller. the empire who was responsible for your accident. to follow are you planning to finalize your current court dealings in germany. that's just what is still going on the trial is over does not appear to hell and several

other people who were in the cabin were found guilty now were engaged in a civil litigation over financial compensation. i don't know how long it will take this has been going on for a body year to get the more scrutiny but. does not admit that it was his fault and i think you haven't received any compensation yet. he has he did not admit his fault and he build a verdict the court found him guilty but i haven't received any compensation from germany yet you're an amazing person i read in one of your recent interviews that you don't even expect him to apologize it was only important for you back then when your situation was so bad whereas today it doesn't matter to you anymore. that's right i wanted him to apologize back then and now i don't need it anymore what good would it be it was more important for you to get your money now. why did you taken

to court because my entire life was ruined and i can no longer live a purple life i cannot do things healthy people can do principle for you primarily not exactly. i mean it is their fault and they have to pay for it. what it's like to be in a situation like this. whether you'll have enough money for another or another rehab course. it has been like. today i have enough money for a warrant or maybe a term or surgeries but there are still a number of plastic surgeries that i have to undergo this is basically why i have sued the german organizers because i need money for surgeries i can't remain for the rest of my life because of. how hard is your situation what can you expect do you have something or someone in your life. insurance companies.

family friends who has been your main support. so far have been able to rely on myself my family and friends as fathers will see as for others it's been different . he insists he had the right. the red light because she did let you go in the red light. why then does he insist that he had the right to ignore it this means there is something in the room that needs to be fixed or is it simply untrue. the rules make it very clear that he cannot go on their bright light but he says that on that day all the crews were gone and their bad lawit. people down the slope would just tell them on a radio that the next crew could. i don't know if it's true. or member it.

i was basically in a mess. to fix the light instead of using the radio. the first surgeries were successful. an account was also opened in germany by the german federation. so anyone in europe could donate for my surgery. and they did. they did how much money did you get. and bought twenty thousand euros was the money donated. to the count in germany. or was it some other to. no there was no charity involved just so fund

accounts in germany and in russia my story was in the media and people just genuinely wanted to help watch some gave ten rubles some gave one hundred gave more they just gave what they could. or was it mostly poor people each person getting. i didn't really get into that how much each person gave. confusing story of. story she closed the account with modern nations and took my manya wish i had no right to do and that was the end of it we complained to the persecution service and after persecutor stuck to her she returned the money. so she did give him money so was it just as. she said she took the money for her work. for his six thousand

euros which i don't know what it was for because russia had paid her ten thousand euros. she was a friend of hers. so she works with. say that so she came to do and then. she said i ordered her twenty thousand more and then you spent a year in court trying to get your money back you know we didn't go to court we just filed a complaint with the persecution service and persecutors talk to her works as a lawyer as if everything is all right. does try to explain that it wasn't right first of all there were a lot of mistakes in her bills she would put things she didn't do and hours she didn't work. and there were men your things she didn't do for instance she didn't tell me it that the hearing in the criminal cord taken place she kept me

in the dark and i did not receive any information from her. but she sent me a bill for four to six thousand euros. how can you carry on with your life. just. goes on with her work you know. the young didn't apologize and you say you don't need it. how can you carry on. i can't afford to waste my life and my strange touring about such things. it's not worth it. even just as. i believe it's fifty fifty you either believe it or you don't it all depends on the people the situation and the circumstances. are you saying. that if you want something it will happen the way you wanted. basically yes but then again

if you see a public official who do you think will win. how do you think we can ensure a better environment for people in a situation like yours. perhaps we need insurances or something like that to have a national but first of all there should be something in a lawyer body situations are a law does not say anything about that for instance size hockey players have huge insurances if something happens to a player his family knows that there will be enough money for medical treatment and . but we don't have it apart from the scores were big money is involved don't have it. if you suffered an injury just really a goodbye and you're on your own health insurance companies would benefit from it

business is very profitable why don't we work with athletes of everybody who wants to get more by paying less in other words you think that russian sports officials save money on our athletes who call them with bullshit they don't want to pay the athletes like. me they view it as an investment and spare no money but there's a difference in russia people don't have this concept of investing enough plates most athletes have to invest their own money and you don't get much in return it's different of course with a well paid athletes but if you don't get anything i think in addition to individual donations he also received money from the moscow government i did. sponsor. that's right germany was supposed to pay this debt but the russian government paid it and i'm very grateful for the hawk says.

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welcome back to spotlight. just a reminder that my guest on the show today is. former russian bobsledder.

court case pending in germany you're also planning to continue medical treatment and. what anybody in the media story would mention. the german surgeons should save the girl who was supposed to lose her leg. anyway. to save your leg and your life. the other medical. medics say is you actually it's your character optimism and confidence is a miracle it is what they see as the method behind. what was your technique in this case was it that it was in your body can make their own miracles certainly doctors did an extraordinary job saving my life and crucially my leg and

practically piecing a back together which was extremely difficult the doctor personally told me their odds of survival with such a trauma are one in one hundred i was told i would be born to watch here for the rest of my life well i'm recovering gradually at the affair slowly. be able to. think there is always the chance one chance at least one hundred chance yes i'll do my best to use it but how some of that become possible will depend upon how my rehabilitation goes by rehabilitation primarily physical exercise. regimen rehabilitation is a process i need to consume and that is sometimes a problem. my whole body in fact this will indeed be mainly plastic surgery but if possible there will also be some rehabilitation or that.

they were always. have us omar was with me all the time until we came back to russia my brother flew into germany as well but he left two days before he came out of corner he came one more time a while later and that's it my other family member stayed in moscow but my friends also came to germany carving out one day in their busy schedules to support me and pass some greetings from russia. everybody gets to deal with. all by themselves. while my family has always been there for me and of course there are also times

when i just want to be left alone cry a little and reflect on things otherwise they have always been friends and relatives around me and to talk and to support me so no i wasn't deserted or cast away because of becoming disabled. as it was. for making you what you are. oh no i love sports and i'd love to continue my career in bobsled had i not sustain such series injuries i still watch bobsled events and follow my friends careers. maybe thanks to the sport that i'm here today. young people may dream of winning medals money and glory from professional sport but even for those with the talent and dedication it can all go wrong in an instant spotlights in the demeter has wore . the triumph and disaster over life in sport and her team. you know

was the tourist in one champion she talked to them while training for the one thousand eight alembics she was simply injured and confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life she died six years ago however tread you can't move you know story has not turned people away from pushing themselves to the limit just recently the world lost two canadians two years both with twenty nine sarah burke in training and the exit reach each during the race itself survivors of terrible injuries often become companions for the rights of disabled sports people like china saying len she broke her neck in one thousand nine hundred eight while competing at the goodwill games the incident left her in the will chair she cues the chinese national gymnastics team for abandoning her after she was paralyzed she will sew filed a lawsuit against the organizers of the games. while on one hand our top athletes

are struggling to win gold man also a great number of athletes just because we don't have a good insurance system having difficulties to find a job and to make a living let alone those who have injuries which in russia it was. case which provoked a public debate over the fate of the injured fleet there have been even calls for free medical care for life for old spodes people after all they represent their country so the country should take care of them if disaster strikes meanwhile the fate of the injured after it's often the bans on the amount of media coverage they cases get. to help. no body to help them. i'm thinking. my case has been. well other people get in similar situations and often face

obscurity while there are many charity. work for athletes is it merely an idea you're entertaining at the moment or are there any specific arrangements already there's been nothing specific yet i'm only thinking about it i really love to set up a foundation like that i'm new to this so i don't know whether it will work or not there are many charities in russia but none that deal specifically with athletes and especially with cases of severe trauma like that honestly i would really like to help. other words you want to help by using your case your experience and your popularity. do you just want to get people together to jointly. both people. everybody has to muddle through on their own you see i think i can not only encourage people to organize but also bring in my publicity tour attract more

attention and make it easier to find sponsors it is easier to promote your agenda and get people to support you when you're someone the public knows about that is why it would be most efficient to do both. a survey exclusively for fund raising or would it have to push. someone. to raise money to assist injured death rates but it would also deal with the underlying issues such as why they were left penniless in the first place and what should be done about it. the root cause is indifference on the part of bureaucracy are negligent executives. possibly in other countries. it's a common thing that athletes are considered valuable as long as they score good results once you've had a bad accident you're no longer valid. and if that's why would anyone want to sponsor. a foundation i'm contemplating what goes provide subsistence for the

disabled and support the athletes who have not been injured themselves but do run the slightest risk of an injury in their sporting careers. but exactly that could include insurance pensions bonuses covering surgery costs of necessary. which a can have so that people wouldn't have to feel desperate and beg officials for help. i have been offered to host a small with people who had to resume their lives from scratch. like a road accident whatever when a person has to start over all the telling about such people and how they have not lost their heart and are models to examples from.

experience and i hope to get it. so far my experience is not an. experience with. the hardships. disabled people. experienced. nothing much has changed since about ten years ago. closer look at the topic so i could use to be there are still little to no ramps there are still hard curbs and steps not special evaders our situation remains very challenging. but not years it is intact there are steps everywhere besides that to tend to people with disabilities difference here than in europe this is very interesting you have mentioned. always toiled for the country.

so its not that bad. for you. to the disabled as you say its not bad but i would say they find it odd everyone has always thought it is normal for the disease to sit at home or not to go out so it's as if there are none of them everything is provided the disabled go out and live an ordinary life their wares here nothing is made. suitable for them and you can hardly see them in a street so when all of a sudden a disabled person shows up other people start staring which is very unpleasant i don't mean it's everywhere this way but many behave like gapers so i don't mean that there is an overwhelmingly bad attitude to the disabled when it even comes to humiliation but there will always be one of a hundred who will say something nasty their unpleasant glares which show you a young and beautiful lady find it very unpleasant to feel such attention one is

still like that it's not nice and not pleasant but the should be broken it must also be part of that show you go to the dentist yes sure this show will make public aware that besides healthy people there are also those who are slightly different but it's normal abroad to call them people with limited abilities not the disease abled as they're usually a dub here in other contrie such people attend regular schools and have jobs like anyone else whereas in our country such people don't even attend schools but to get tutored at home as a result disabled children grow up without being fully aware of who they really are . there's been dozens and dozens of guests here in the studio believe me you'll be perfectly all right thank you but thank you for being with us so just to remind you that my guest today was in the squad of former russian bachelors and that's it for the operable spotlight will be back with more for their comments on what's going on in and outside russia until then r.t.

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