Olympic Reserve Journal

Expert opinion about juvenile sports “Today there are a lot of people and public organizations involved in professional sports. But we forgot about children's sports, we for- got that the Olympic champions our country is proud of, they are born in youth schools...

Russian team won 31 gold medals in the European freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling championship among sportsmen with a hearing impairment in Gomel, Belarus. We discussed the results of the tournament with the Russian senior coach for Greco-Roman wrestling among hard-of-hearing sportsmen Vladimir Gorinov.  - We performed more than successfully. Top coaches have been working with the athletes. We showed better results than we did last time. We held the championship in Vladimir last year. We won 8...

Note from the Olympic Reserve: Mikhail Zalomin - 6-time European champion, 6-time World champion in trampoline - You are a graduate of Moscow College of Olympic Reserve No. 1. How much has it changed since the time you were a student of the College? - A lot of things have changed. Starting from the renovation of the buildings, which was completed recently, in the educational part and in dormitories. Everything has changed, it has become much more comfortable. Now everything is done so that all students can feel as comfortable as possible...

Information from the Olympic Reserve: Nikita Nagorny - silver medalist at the Olympic Games, three-time world champion, six-time European champion in gymnastics. At the World Championships-2019 in artistic gymnastics in Stuttgart, Germany, Nikita Nagorny, a graduate of Moscow Olympic College №1, won three gold medals - in the individual and team all-around and vault. We talked with the athlete and learned how he relates to the fact that he is confused with Arthur Dalaloyan, what his diet consists...

Russian athlete Ekaterina Paltseva won gold at the 2019 World Boxing Championships in the weight category up to 48 kg in Ulan-Ude. We met with Ekaterina after a triumph. From our conversation you will learn: why the athlete did not show the joy of victory, how she does without social networks and why she wants to gain weight. “After the finale, there were no longer any emotions. My strength was over, and I relied only on God's help. It seemed to many that I was not happy when I was declared the winner...

To meet with the legendary basketball coach Eugene Gomelsky you do not need to look for some reason. His signature tales, stories and authoritative opinions are always relevant. In our conversation, the master talked about the half - thieves' talk of modern trainers, evaluated the film “Upward Movement”, recalled how his brother had raised him, and revealed his main secret. “Why should I fight? I am sitting on a bench, waving a towel, clapping my hands.” - Evgeny Yakovlevich, let's move from basketball club to the national team...

Change of sport, three-year-old maximalist son, CSKA prospects, home games Gold medal, Olympic vow, Victor An and Dmitry Guberniev. Ruslan Zakharov came to ice skating two years ago and in the first season won the European Championship mass start. But last four international tournaments in a row in the final at this distance the athlete falls. However at the second stage of the World Cup in polish city Tomaszow, the skater had a positive moment - Ruslan won the first medal at the World Cup - bronze in the team race with Danila Semerikov and Alexander Rumyantsev...

The Russians Alexander Lesun and Da- nil Kalimullin won a bronze medal in the men’s relay at the World Modern Pentath- lon Championship in Budapest in Sep- tember 2019. We came to visit the director of the Severnaya Sports School, two-time Olympic champion Anatoly Starostin, and asked him to evaluate the performance of school graduate Alexander Lesun in Hun- gary, and also talked about the different characters of horses and his work in the women’s police pentathlon team. “THE CHARACTER OF A HORSE...

In October, a graduate of Moscow Olympic College No. 1, Arthur Beterbiev, who trained with the honored trainer of Russia Vagif Shirinov, became the WBC world champion. In the title fight, which took place in Philadelphia, he defeated the Ukrainian Alexander Gvozdik in the 10th round by technical knockout. Be- terbiev became the fifth Russian boxer in history, who managed to combine the titles. The athlete also owns an IBF belt. We talked with Arthur about the duel of views, psychological preparation for the fight and critical comments by Vasily Lo- machenko...

World athletics champion Olesya Zykina summed up the results of the world championship in Doha (Qatar) for the “Olympic Reserve”, assessed the prospects of Russian athletes and explained how playing the piano helps to run fast. - The season turned out to be long with the main start in October. I had to go through two peaks. It was a very difficult championship. It was hard in Doha because of the climate and a long-distance flight. But the leaders that were counted upon did a great job. There were...

Rescue of the skating rink, the conflict of world champions, “rustic ice”, a bursted roof and tennis on ice. Former Krylatskoe leader Mikhail Zagainov, World champion Ivan Skobrev, World Cup winners Evgeny Lalenkov and Alexander Kibalko, Russian champion Olga Tarasova and, of course, Moscow World Championships triumph Shani Davis talk about a historic event. Speed skating is the most medal-intensive sport at the Winter Olympics - 14 disciplines. At the European Championships in January in Heerenveen,...

At the 2019 Freestyle Wrestling World Championships in Nur-Sultan, Zaurbek Sidakov defended his champion title. In a conversation with the Olympic Reserve, he opened up how he was cheating on the coach, why he did not like vacations, shared his opinion about his star second, and who he looked up to. Emotions after the gold of the World Cup 2019 In the last seconds of the final I looked at the scoreboard, and the score was 5: 2, and then I already realized that I was the winner. I took another step towards the main goal, and this is the Olympic Games...