THE ICE PERSON.
THE ICE PERSON.
Our great swimmer Alexander Popov is always correct to the Native land,
To the trainer and... To swimming trunks.
On last European championship by water kinds of sports,
Passing in Germany, Alexander Popov was allocated in all. In
That number and purely outwardly. After all willy-nilly he looks
On all from top to down. To get in hotel to itself to number, to it
It was necessary to bend down a head properly. To sleep and at all
It is necessary almost on two beds, and on a diagonal.
The god has not offended Rostochkom-to Alexander, and here also owners
Competitions have appeared somehow not too provident.
And more Priests looks now at contenders from height of the
Age. Pools after all now on large competitions, that
Piscicultural farms - entirely young growth. National team middle age
Russia - has less than 20 years. And only it, Priests, here costs
Independently. On a pedestal, erected by itself. Where now
Its former irreconcilable contenders, with which it on Games in
To Barcelona and Atlanta battled? One, like Socrat,
Grow up cabbage in own kitchen garden, others
Trained for a new profession in commentators, managers,
Functionaries. And only Alexander, last from Mohicans,
Still dissects water paths as unsinkable
Destroyer... Great, it also is the great.
The FILE: Priests Alexander. Was born on November, 16th, 1971 in
Sverdlovsk. The deserved master of sports on swimming. Growth-2m,
Weight - 90 kg. The quadruple Olympic champion, triple
The world champion and devjatnadtsatikratnyj - Europe. The ex-champion
The world on a distance of 100 m a freestyle. The wife - Darya Shmelev,
The prize-winner of the European championship in complex swimming. Two children -
Vladimir (5 years) and Anton (2 years). Since 1992 on the present
Time together with a family lives in Canberra (Australia). A member
The commissions of sportsmen MOK. The trainer - Gennady Turetsky.
Live brand.
In Monte-Carlo on a starting bedside table of pool it is screwed
The gold tablet: "Here has established a world record Alexander
Priests ". So it abroad appreciate. And here in Russia Priests -
The rare visitor: from continent on continent you are not flown much.
And that to flit the butterfly - in safe Australia after all
At it all is fine and harmonious. And here - a heap of relatives, eternally
prositelno looking in the face, an infinite semi-official organ. And it still
Not the worst, can also a knife in a back to put. And in
Word literal sense. As it already was, when the dealer water-melons
Has twice thrust in a body of the champion a huge hatchet. Has rescued then
Alexander only a guardian angel.
But all the same pulls it home, as if a huge magnet.
For the first time after long absence acting in Russia occasionally
The swimming World championship on "short water", Priests immediately
Has apologised before foreign correspondents and has started talking on
The native language - for all it on English translated. As
It is spoken, a kickshaw, and it is pleasant:
Especially, if to recollect, how our star pair of figure skaters
Careful - Siharulidze in Salt Lake City suddenly "has ceased
To understand "the journalists-compatriots expressing on
Russian.
"Alexander, to you has not bothered still to act? You have won,
Everything seems, that is possible, and besides repeatedly. What
Stimulus dvizhut you today? "- similar questions to it in
Last time set constantly. "And why to me should
To bother business which I like also which at me still
Not bad it turns out? - He traditionally responds. - now in
Swimming the tendency to a rejuvenation, so paternal to me not is appreciable
To prove, that there are no rules bar none, and not to become sports
Long-liver? "" Also that, really you seriously count
To start on the fourth Olympic Games? "- are interested
Journalists in the answer. "I after all still live also am quite capable. We
With the trainer have already headed for Athenes and as maps there will lay down,
Time will tell ", - with invariable ulybochkoj responds
Alexander.
Certainly, it is possible to concern such statements somehow: with
Share of scepticism or with enthusiasm. Reasonably interestingly
Opinion on this bill of the recognised king of a crawl, the ex-champion
Simeon Belits-Gejmana's living nowadays in America world: "Than
Longer Priests will hold on afloat, the better. Alexander -
The best advertising to our kind of sports, its live brand ".
The leader of conservative "party".
Certainly, in native "Olympic" this "brand" has appeared
Far not in the best possible way, not to tell - completely disassembled.
"Yes I wish to understand, on what is capable, and in general to recollect,
As you feel yourself when you leave on start ", - it beat off from
"Harassments" of the reporters, by all means wishing to learn,
The world record-holder is how much ready today. Interest is clear: on
Result popova on a hundred-metre race very few people can till now
To threaten, even having put on an ultramodern suit "Long John",
Giving a notable increase in speed.
And here after all an amusing collision: one of main "cutters"
This suit - Gennady Turetsky - recently
Permanent instructor Alexander. That Turkish, from services
Which Australians recently have refused, being based on the
Concept of ethics and morals. And so, it cannot in any way
To persuade the pupil to put on fashionable prikid. Though
Reasons to that like all are. "A suit after all this specially
Under popova has been sewed, - the trainer explains. - months for eight
To Olympic Games Sasha has tried on it and has floated "fifty-kopeck piece" almost on
Second faster, than usually ". However Alexander the habitual
To swimming trunks to change does not want. Though cry!
Whims of a star? Yes not absolutely. Simply Priests by nature
The conservative also considers, that new technical shifts - from
The crafty. "To them after all one never knows and to get used it is possible, as to
To stimulators, - it half in jest makes comments. - and suddenly these
Innovations will forbid, what then? "It is valid, what? For
Some today's stars it would mean the career end.
And here on the Old World championship to Germany Priests has gone
At all behind the twentieth victory under the bill. He perfectly knew, that
It is not ready for hundred percent, but someone needed "to close
Embrasure "on a distance of hundred metres. That Alexander also has made,
Having won continental silver. Better it from ours
Swimmers-men anybody has not acted. Here that such the old
Guards!
Trikolor instead of money.
Well and on world superiority on "short" water in Moscow
Priests became the third twice, and after heats it was
It is impenetrable, as the class player in a pocker. Though it was easy
To guess, that gathering colour, instead of it is impossible some precious metals
To its proud nature.
- How to you vodichka in "Olympic", fast? - I ask.
- Water chemical compound always same. And result
Depends on that, how much you are ready today.
- Whether are happy with this result?
- Have normally floated. (Alexander has got used to speak about itself
A little ironically in plural. - a comment red.).
Stenochku still to clean, and that stirs.
Priests obviously hinted at divided water area half-and-half
Partition and what not with its dimensions to spin in
25-metre pools.
And it is clear, what not from self-interest it in the Russian capital
Has arrived - prize-winning him did not excite. Therefore Alexander at all
It was strongly afflicted, when a lion's part terribly earned by it
The bonus have selected at a start back on Sheremetevsky
To customs because of an overlay with the declaration... By the way, about money.
Other ward Turkish - Michael Klim, the person in swimming
Significant, but in any way comparable with popovym, receives an order
3-5 million dollars a year. To Alexander such sums and not
Dreamt. It after all a stranger, it is not necessary to it. Though on Green
Continent Popovu time and again hinted, that it could have so much
If no more, start to act under the Australian flag.
But Alexander Russian trikolor has preferred.
Ideal tandem.
Start of a present swimming season if you remember,
By the big scandal was marked. From the house Turkish
Robbers-addicts have taken out the computer and the safe: after
Loss has been found out, nearby there were awards of pupils
The well-known instructor and the forbidden substances containing
Dope. Investigation has begun, the trainer have temporarily separated from
Experts, and pupils have on the sly run up. Almost all, except
popova. The Russian swimmer has unambiguously declared in
vseuslyshanie what to change the trainer it is not intended. Russian in a trouble
The do not throw...
And in general, they are on friendly terms families - the pupil and the trainer. At
Turkish the seven-year daughter, by name... Sasha.
- Gennady Gennadevich, in whose honour have named? - I set
Reasonable question.
- The name beautiful is simple. And Alexander, if you on it
Hint, - its godfather. We specially went in
Orthodox church in Sydney to make a ceremony in
Conformity with all canons.
- And with that criminal history as today affairs are?
- Know, it and the eaten away egg did not cost. It was a question, if
Who not in a course, about the tablets made in England ten years
Back. Thus the safe robbers perli lines knows how much, that
Then easier to open and throw. And here on a gold chain,
Rolling on a kind, have not coveted. Ridiculously simply. Much
Worse, that on the sly at me from the computer were gone all
Swimming know-how and perspective workings out for years
Forward. But also it is business acquirable, we will restore, would be
Health.
Russian advantage.
... popova in days of the Olympic Games in Atlanta Americans have nicknamed
The person from ice. In reply to a psychosis inflated in the local
The press round Harry Holla, the local favourite, Alexander of time
For at once forced that to catch silver small fishes instead of
The gold. Saving thus absolutely unperturbable kind. It
Strongly on the insult bordered. However actually was
Simply display of self-respect. Well and it
At popova it is a lot of.
Victor VASILEV.
//* an information Source: the Version, 5.08.02
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