Bad at the Olympics. Why are our athletes showing such weak results at this Olympics? Is it all due to the lack of doping? How such athletes are selected for the Games

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Breaking through to the games in Pyeongchang "even with a carcass, even with a stuffed animal", our sports functionaries promised to "show everyone" and to spite the whole world, shower the Motherland with a rain of Olympic "gold", thereby proving the ability Russian athletes win no matter what. Everything turned out exactly the opposite - our performances at the 2018 Olympics play into the hands of those who prove with foam at the mouth that "Russians can do nothing without doping" ...

The Olympics have always been a magnet, an anticipation of a spectacle, a source of emotions - there are also ours: skaters, skiers, hockey players! And here - as cut off - does not pull to the TV, for the life of me. You catch a glimpse of one broadcast, another. And all - fed up. Almost entirely grief ...

As expected: medals (there are still no gold medals, a week after the opening!) - are given to us with great difficulty. The Russian national team is already 13th in the team competition! We are behind France, Italy, Korea, Switzerland and only today ahead of Australia! I represent the faces Russian stars past Olympiads, honored and titled, veterans ...

And before it was clear that from Russian team- bloodless, nervous, sometimes even convulsing - it is difficult to expect outstanding results. Until the last day, many athletes did not know whether they would go to Pyeongchang or not. And those who knew, perhaps, simply burned out ...

But we still hoped and believed. For example, the famous Yelena Isinbayeva promised on Instagram that Russia will show itself well in Pyeongchang, because "Russians become invincible in anger." Alas, failures follow one after another, they are even where ours were supposed to win. Let's say in figure skating, where the chances of the pair Evgeny Tarasov - Vladimir Morozov were highly quoted. But no, instead of the jubilant sounds of the victorious march, we heard the muffled sobs of our partner ...

Even the hockey players we hoped for the most are not yet impressive. And that's putting it mildly. The Russians did not lose, but lost in the first match of the Slovakian tournament. Oleg Znarok, Main coach The "red car" (if so, then it is pretty unscrewed) at the post-match press conference looked like an angry lion.

The defeat of the hockey players did not look quite natural. But it didn't look so unexpected either. True, in the second game ours defeated Slovenia. However, this is not the kind of rival, having overcome which, one must raise glasses of champagne. Let's see - of course, with the hope that the days to come are preparing for us.

Maybe Stalin will help? The question is not taken from the ceiling, but from life. A banner depicting the Father of Nations was spotted on the podium during the match between Russians and Slovenes ...

By the way, there are quite a few tourists from our country in Korea. And their mood is quite optimistic. Fans, despite the IOC bans, unfurl national flags, banners in the stands, chant at the top of their lungs: "Russia, forward!" These people came from afar, having covered great distances, having spent a lot of money to support our team. Thank them for that ...

Let's go back to the Olympic tournament and evaluate the further chances of the Russian national team. Alas, apart from male hockey players and female figure skaters, we generally have nothing to hope for. This is what I mean olympic gold damn it ...

It seems that there is no need to talk about biathlon. We only lick our fleshly lips, watching other people's victories. Russians flicker somewhere beyond the horizon, in the second ten ... German Wolfgang Pichler recently trained Russian biathletes. But against him, although he was famous, titled, they unleashed a real war - they say, such and such, does not bring any benefit. The TV commentator Dmitry Guberniev tried especially hard. Pichler endured, endured, but then he took offense and left Russia.

At the Olympics in Pyeongchang, Guberniev approached to take a picture with a German, but Pichler angrily brushed aside: “No, damn Gubernik! I will not take pictures with you, because you have been spreading rot for three years, and I could have won gold medals with Olga Zaitseva and other Russian athletes. " Now Pichler is preparing the Swedish national team. And he achieved very decent results with them. The Scandinavians won gold and silver medals at the Olympics. Maybe they will have other awards as well. But ours - hardly anything shines.

That's it, everything is, as always - there is no prophet in our Fatherland. Sad as it may seem, our athletes are in the unenviable role of extras not only in skiing, biathlon, but also in snowboarding, skating ... The position of Russian hockey players, who played three matches at the Olympic tournament and lost as many with a total score of 1:15, is no better. ... The luge is not doing better. But they at least entertained the scandal - the mentor of Semyon Pavlichenko, Eduard Burmistrov, had a falling out with the head coach Albert Demchenko. As the old Russian proverb says, don't get into your sleigh. But here everything is the other way around - Demchenko wanted Pavlichenko to ride his sleigh. But the athlete and his coach were against it. Like, their own - no worse.

The fact that the Russian team has few medals is bad. This is the very poverty, which, contrary to another well-known proverb, is a vice. Firstly, domestic sport never fell so low. Secondly, he is so discredited that it will take many years for his rehabilitation. "The word 'Russia' is a bit of a swear word here after the country was banned from the game as punishment for a widespread and state-sponsored doping program," writes USA Today correspondent Nancy Armor.

And the poor performance of domestic athletes only plays into the hands of our enemies. Like, as soon as the Russians lost their leaders involved in doping scandals, there was no trace of their former sports power, and the Russian team won at the last winter Olympics in Sochi with the help of forgeries and manipulations. But ... Before the 2018 Games, the Russian national team, following the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), regained first place in the team medal standings of the Olympic Games in Sochi. Skeleton medals returned to our athletes cross-country skiing, luge sports, ice skating. So, they were recognized as "clean" and their excommunication from the Games in Pyeongchang was illegal?

However, the IOC did not even think to retreat. And many in the West continue to bend their line - Russia is to blame, and it was in vain to be allowed to the Olympics.

A little more than a week is left before the closing of the Olympics in Pyeongchang. The results of the Russian national team can be described briefly: not yet a failure, but close. This has never happened. I would like to believe that it will not.

Warm greetings to those who destroyed and betrayed the national sport ...

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The XXIII Winter Olympics in South Korean Pyeongchang ended and became part of history. Now we will not talk about how these games turned out. There will always be those, in spite of various accompanying factors, for whom the Olympics were successful and who returns to their homeland on horseback, and there will be those who will have a feeling of dissatisfaction in their souls for various reasons.

We will not go deep into the Olympic jungle, but simply try to analyze the performance of the Georgian national team in Pyeongchang. I must emphasize right away that I don’t have a clear answer, at least for me, to the question whether the Olympics were successful or not for the Georgian athletes. After all, each of us, me or another representative of the writing fraternity and the athlete have completely different criteria for evaluating performances.

Let's start with the total number of Georgian athletes at the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang. Four athletes representing three sports were able to qualify for South Korea: Nino Tsiklauri and Yason Abramashvili (alpine skiing), Giorgi Sogoyan (sledges) and Moris Kvitelashvili (figure skating).

The motto of the Georgian National Olympic Committee (NOC) is better than last time. Four years ago, four athletes also competed under the flag of Georgia at the games in Sochi, but Vice-President of the Georgian NOC Mamuka Khabarli noted that: “The number of athletes remained the same, but a new discipline was added - sledges. Therefore, we can assume that we have improved performance compared to the games in Sochi. "

A natural question immediately arises - when did this motto appear? Because if we compare the Olympic Games in Sochi (2014) and in Vancouver (2010), we get a completely disappointing picture - in Canada, Georgia was represented by 7 athletes, but we have already said about Sochi.

And then, four athletes - is it a lot or a little? For example, Serbia, which has a population of 7 million, also delegated four participants to the Olympics. At the same time, Ireland and Iceland, whose living standards are much higher than in Georgia, sent only five athletes to the games. Well, God bless them with European countries. How do you feel about the fact that Nigeria, for which these Olympic Games became the first winter Olympics in history and for whom snow is a real miracle, was also represented by four athletes? Yes, everyone was in the four bobsled, but still.

Here I would like to draw attention to one more circumstance. I am more than sure that, say, the same Ireland is unlikely to claim to host Winter Olympics or the Winter Youth Festival. Georgia has ski resorts and tracks that meet international standards. These are Gudauri, and Bakuriani, and Tetnuldi with Khatsvali (both near Mestia). And there were no results in alpine skiing, at least in alpine skiing.

The same Yason Abramashvili, for whom the Olympics in Pyeongchang became the fourth in his career, said before the start of the games that he would be pleased if he could improve his results shown in Sochi. Four years ago he finished 22nd in slalom. Improvement failed. In the final protocol, the Georgians are on the 28th position.

Not the most the best way performed at the Olympic Games and Nino Tsiklauri, who is also difficult to surprise with games. After all, Vancouver and Sochi are behind them. In the giant slalom competition, the Georgian woman lagged behind the winner by 16.91 (!) Seconds and took 46th place. Tsiklauri performed slightly better in slalom - she managed to enter the top 40, showing 39 results.

And if with alpine skiing everything is more or less clear - the Georgian athletes performed at the level that we are used to seeing from them (it is a pity that we still could not improve), then, personally, I expected a little more from the figure skater Maurice Kvitelashvili.

Two weeks before the start of the games, the President of the Georgian Figure Skating Federation Maka Giorgobiani noted that there would be no pressure on Kvitelashvili. These are the first games for him, and let him get comfortable with the situation. According to Pierre de Coubertin, the main thing is not victory, but participation.

And so it happened with Kvitelashvili, who showed excellent results last season, taking 6th place at the European Championship, and 13th at the World Cup, having managed to qualify for the free program at the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, where Kvitelashvili skated not in the best way and ended up finishing 24th. last place... It's a shame that his total score for the short and free program(204.57 points) was less than the winner of the competition Yuzuru Hanyu (Japan) received only for his free performance (206.17 points).

Probably, the least complaints are against the young 20-year-old sledger Georgy Sogoyan. It is clear that for him these games were the first in his career, and one could not expect outstanding performance from an athlete. Ultimately, Sogoyan took 32nd place, leaving behind eight toboggans. We can only hope that Sogoyan has gained invaluable experience and will be able to improve his performance at the Beijing Olympics in 2022.

Before starting to write this material, I talked to my colleagues sports journalists to get their opinion on the performance of the Georgian athletes at the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang. And you know, we all came to a common denominator that for Georgia this Olympics took place, let's say, in working mode. Not bad and not good, without emotional leaps, without that feeling when you strain vocal cords, rooting for their own. It passed at the level to which, unfortunately, the Georgian fan is already accustomed.

About the Olympics in South Korea were not fun for the Russians: not only were many athletes not invited to participate in competitions, they were also not allowed to perform with Russian symbols.

Thanks to the penultimate race at the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang - the women's mass start - Russian athlete Tatyana Akimova, who previously took 15th place in the individual race, greatly upset the Russian sports community, but also the spectators of the Olympics: the girl not only came last, but also and managed to fall even before the starting shot rang out.

Naturally, Akimova immediately ended up in 30th place in the table, so it immediately became clear: this is the “funeral” of the Russian biathlon. And the athlete confirmed the assumptions: for about three lines, the girl did not leave the third ten, then, with grief, she got to the last stand.

Taking out the gun, Akimova took aim and missed 5 times and a possible five. The girl explained 5 misses by muscle tension.

But that's not all: leaving all the targets uncovered, the athlete ran an extra kilometer. She was the last at the finish line. In the meantime, when the leader finished and when Akimova got there, 6 minutes... The Russian athlete came first - this is Anastasia Kuzmina.

Generally, Russian biathlon so far, unfortunately, it is in a "sluggish state". Especially girls. Judge for yourself: Ekaterina Yurlova-Pekht could be distinguished from the absolute leaders among sportsmen, but ...

But Ekaterina Yurlova-Pekht is exactly the person who, according to the decision of the International Olympic Committee, could not take part in the Olympics in Pyeongchang?

And by the way: she did not shine on the podiums for a long time, so her capabilities in biathlon at the moment are more inertial than actual.

By the way, Akimova herself, who, unfortunately for her, became famous at this Olympics, said that the attitude towards biathlon in the country is rather indifferent

According to the athlete, the mentors "in no way" work with their wards.

According to the girl, the coaches who receive money for working with the Olympians did not even contact her during the Olympic Games. It is logical to assume that if what the girl says is true, but none of the mentors pointed out her mistakes.

“We also trained a lot, but I just could not understand some of the lessons. I asked the coaches, but no one could clearly explain anything to me. process consciously. During the season, I could not even understand when I was getting in shape and when not. My condition was a mystery even to myself. There must be contact with the coach! And I didn't have it during the whole season, "- complained Akimova.

The last race, the decisive one for the Russians, in the mixed relay will take place in three days. But what will the national team show and will it be able to take advantage of the last chance?

The last Olympic race for the Russians will take place in three days. All four heroes of the Games will start in the mixed relay. This team has one last chance to prove that it is worth anything.

Selective equity?

You can say that Russian athletes were seriously affected both before the Olympic Games and during them, however ...

Does the lack of an opportunity to perform with the country's symbols so categorically affect the results? For example, skiers prove: nothing of the kind!

So, for example, the relay four took bronze, although until the last stage it really claimed gold.

Representatives of the "Olympic Athletes from Russia" team Andrey Larkov, Alexander Bolshunov, Alexey Chervotkin and Denis Spitsov took the second place, showing the time 1: 33: 14.3. The winners were Didrik Tenset, Martin Jonsrud Sundby, Simen Hegstad Kruger and Johannes Hesflot Klebo from Norway, the third place was taken by the French Jean-Marc Gaillard, Maurice Manifika, Clement Paris and Adrien Bachscheider.

But why skiers can and biathletes can't? This is a completely normal, logical question, the answer to which is definitely!

Good to Bad

The first number of the national team in men's single skating Mikhail Kolyada has 6 falls and 4 rentals in its luggage. Nevertheless - 2nd place in the team tournament, 8th - in the individual.

Yes, it was a difficult competition for the athlete: at first he even ended up in the green room, that is, where the leaders sit, but then quickly flew out of there with the help of an 18-year-old Dmitry Aliev.

By the way, Aliyev also amused the jury with skating from side to side, then with a double fall, a hip injury and the seventh final place

“I understood perfectly well who I would be performing with. This, of course, is not in Russian. The Russians always go only upstairs, and I only went upstairs, but it didn't work out. But seventh place for the first Games ... I don't know. I will analyze and draw conclusions ", - commented Aliyev.

In general, these Olympic Games turned out to be memorable for Russia: a skeleton player, and a Russian curler with her beauty.

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Breaking through to the games in Pyeongchang "even with a carcass, even with a stuffed animal", our sports functionaries promised to "show everyone" and to spite the whole world, shower the Motherland with a rain of Olympic "gold", thereby proving the ability of Russian athletes to win, no matter what. Everything turned out exactly the opposite - our performances at the 2018 Olympics play into the hands of those who prove with foam at the mouth that "Russians can do nothing without doping" ...

As expected: medals (there are still no gold medals, a week after the opening!) - are given to us with great difficulty. The Russian national team is already 13th in the team competition! We are behind France, Italy, Korea, Switzerland and only today ahead of Australia! I represent the faces of Russian stars of the past Olympics, honored and titled, veterans ...

And before it was clear that it was difficult to expect outstanding results from the Russian team - bloodless, nervous, sometimes even convulsing. Until the last day, many athletes did not know whether they would go to Pyeongchang or not. And those who knew, perhaps, simply burned out ...

But we still hoped and believed. For example, the famous Yelena Isinbayeva promised on Instagram that Russia will show itself well in Pyeongchang, because "Russians become invincible in anger." Alas, failures follow one after another, they are even where ours were supposed to win. For example, in figure skating, where the chances of a pair of Evgeny Tarasov - Vladimir Morozov were highly quoted. But no, instead of the jubilant sounds of the victorious march, we heard the muffled sobs of our partner ...

Even the hockey players we hoped for the most are not yet impressive. And that's putting it mildly. The Russians did not lose, but lost in the first match of the Slovakian tournament. Oleg Znarok, the head coach of the "red car" (if so, then it is pretty loose) at the post-match press conference looked like an angry lion.

The fact that the Russian team has few medals is bad. This is the very poverty, which, contrary to another well-known proverb, is a vice. First, domestic sports have never fallen so low. Secondly, he is so discredited that it will take many years for his rehabilitation. "The word 'Russia' is a bit of a swear word here after the country was banned from the game as punishment for a widespread and state-sponsored doping program," writes USA Today correspondent Nancy Armor.

And the poor performance of domestic athletes only plays into the hands of our enemies. Like, as soon as the Russians lost their leaders involved in doping scandals, there was no trace of their former sports power, and the Russian team won at the last winter Olympics in Sochi with the help of forgeries and manipulations. But ... Before the 2018 Games, the Russian national team, following the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), regained first place in the team medal standings of the Olympic Games in Sochi. Our athletes got their medals back in skeleton, cross-country skiing, luge, ice skating. So, they were recognized as "clean" and their excommunication from the Games in Pyeongchang was illegal?

However, the IOC did not even think to retreat. And many in the West continue to bend their line - Russia is to blame, and it was in vain to be allowed to the Olympics.

Warm greetings to those who destroyed and betrayed the national sport ...

Every year a huge number of schoolchildren take part in the Olympiads, but only a few win. And, of course, it is difficult for everyone who was not among the lucky ones not to get upset, and the phrase “the main thing is participation” at this moment is unlikely to comfort you. We talked with psychologists at the Center for Pedagogical Excellence Marianna Voytsyk, Nikita Vlasov and Yulia Gorbunova about how not to lose interest in a favorite subject after defeat, and wrote down their advice.

Psychologists who work with Olympiads have two tasks: to increase the number of successful performances and to make sure that the competition is beneficial to the participant, regardless of what his result is. When a psychological service appeared in the Center for Pedagogical Excellence in 2014, it turned out that one of the main areas of work was precisely working with failure. Moreover, the higher you rise, the more expensive this failure is given to you. So for many children it is easier to accept that they did not make it to the finals than that which they did, but didn’t take any place. Although, in fact, getting to the final stage is already an achievement.

At the same time, of course, even in the event of a failure at the Olympiad, psychological trauma can be avoided and even emerge victorious from this situation. Here are some tips that might help:

Olympiad All-Russian Olympiad for schoolchildren The final stage takes place in March-April

Intellectual Championship of Russia for everyone. Conducted in 24 subjects in four stages for grades 4-11

Mathematics Computer Science and 22 more subjects

You can move, squat, tone the body.

When the Olympiad comes to an end and you feel that you need a final push to double-check everything, you can activate yourself with the help of several simple exercises... For example, intensive rubbing of the fingers from the periphery to the center helps well: in this way you gather, you stimulate a number of zones of the brain, your attention is concentrated on what is happening in the given second with your body. Another effective method- This is to rub the earlobes hard. In addition, you can get up, walk around, leave the office, ask to open the window. Remember that the Olympiad is held for you and the main thing here is your needs, do not be shy.

... during the announcement of the results

To worry less when announcing points or final results, you need to be absolutely sure that you did everything in your power, you could not change anything. And for this you need to work on the tour, focus on assignments, and not think about what will happen next.
Once you know your scores, it's good to be alone for a while. For example, see your result and go for a walk or lock yourself in your room, just digest this information. Here everyone has their own tricks: you can draw something, you can take out your aggression and, for example, tear up some newspaper. If you feel that you have euphoria, then you can run and jump. The main thing is to give vent to your emotions.
Analyze what your result says. Let's say you think that you have no chance of winning: think about the pros and cons that are in this situation. And here it is worth focusing on the fact that the pluses really exist, and not because you did not win, but because you participated. This, again, is a unique experience, new friends, impressions of traveling to a new city.
Remember that the Olympiad is partly an accident, a kind of coincidence. We got such tasks, but others could get caught. You were in this state, and you could be in another. It is impossible to do everything, you cannot be 100% ready for the competition. We must not forget: the specificity of the Olympiads is that it is not easy school program, and something beyond that, and the organizers can come up with something unusual. For example, this year at the final stage All-Russian Olympiad the MHC had tasks that concerned the world of Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings. And for many children it became an outlet, helped to survive an unsuccessful performance. They found a way out to their emotions: “How is it, the Olympiad in world art culture, and here the tasks are not about Stanislavsky and Degas, but about Hogwarts,” they thought it was funny and ridiculous, jokes like “I spent 35 hours at the Tretyakov Gallery, but didn’t reread Harry Potter. ” And no one stopped the guys, because it was clear that this way it was easier for them to survive their defeat.
After the announcement of the results, as a rule, the participants do not leave immediately, they still have to communicate with each other for some time, so it is good if the organizers conduct this stage intelligently. For example, last year at the All-Russia Chemistry Final, diplomas were first given, and then there was a closing ceremony and a performance. The guys were sitting in a dark room and everyone had the opportunity to be alone with themselves and to experience what had just happened, to calm down.

... after the Olympiad

There is no need to identify yourself with your result. Many people reason like this: "I am my intellect, and my intellect is my result." Following this logic, if you performed poorly at the Olympiad, then you are zero. But this is not true. First, the Olympiad does not measure intelligence: it measures specific knowledge on specific issues at a specific point in time. Secondly, in addition to the intellect, a person also has feelings, emotions, experiences, there is creative thinking.
Analyze your performance at the Olympiad and think about how to make it better next time. Thoroughly approach the preparation: structure all the information that you need to master, create a table with marks: which topics have already been covered and which have not. Make a cognitive map: write down the entire system of knowledge within your subject and find in which directions you have gaps, decide on a lesson plan.
Often the guys say: “I really wanted to make a present for the school, everyone was waiting for my victory so much, it’s so important for me!”. This is the wrong, unhealthy approach. Remember that your outcome and the expectations of your teachers are different things. They have no right to demand any success from you, you must not live up to their expectations. The only person who has the right to evaluate you is yourself. And, as already mentioned, in the Olympiad, not only knowledge and ingenuity are very important, but also luck.
Remember that the Olympiads are not suitable for everyone and not everyone likes, and this is normal. You can try yourself in this direction, but it may turn out that you have a disposition of character, thinking, personality that is not suitable for this occupation. And this is not bad, it means that you are just a different person. For example, most of the Olympiads are now aimed specifically at children who have a large amount of knowledge, and there are not always many creative tasks in them.
Do not forget that any school olympiad- this is just a test of the pen, the main achievements in life are still somewhat different. Perhaps you will be more fortunate here!