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22:19 07.09.2007

ATHLETICS. Yelena Slesarenko: the most important medal of mine is already at home

The Olympic champion of the Athens-2004 in High Jump Yelena Slesarenko can hardly call her 2007 season particularly successful. Her victory over the season leader, Croat Blanka Vlasic, in the first "Golden League" stage in Oslo on June, 6 still remains the highest point of her season. At the World Championships in Osaka Slesarenko was only the fourth. Prior to the start of the fourth "Golden League" stage in Zurich the athlete gave a preliminary summary of her season in the interview for the special correspondent of the Agency of sport information "All Sport" Natalya Maryanchik.

- Yelena, in Zurich everyone is talking about the new super-surface in the sector, which seems as if it was especially created for high results. How did this novelty seem to you?
- I only flew to Zurich yesterday morning, slept well, and was hardly in the stadium. The day before that I did a good warm-up in Zhukovskiy, and in Zurich I generally planned a rest day, but decided to go down to the stadium and move around a bit. My manager has already described the super-technologies to me, but so far I’ve only run a little in my spikes, and light jumping. I hope the surface will help me in the competition.

- You left Osaka with the last group, since the women’s high jump final had been on the last day of the world championships. Have you been able to recover?
- It’s been pretty difficult for me so far. The problem is that I want to go to sleep very early. Normally I don’t go to bed any earlier than 12 p.m., now I’m simply wiped out by 10. And even the weather in Zurich seems frosty now, compared with Osaka. But it seems to be clearing up today, and if the temperature this evening is at least in the 20 degree range, it will be completely normal.

- Eight of the best high jumpers from Osaka came to Zurich in full strength. Would you say this is an outstanding chance for revenge?
- It’s absolutely all the same to me, who else participates in the competition. The main is for me to do well myself. I have no thoughts whatsoever about revenge, and simply want to jump competently, with the correct technique. My technique has been a little off recently. I don’t extend vertically; I open my arms early and have to "correct" myself in midair. My trainer gave me clear instructions on what to focus my attention, and I’ll try to carry them out. If I manage to jump 2.00 m, I’ll be satisfied.

- In your view, what’s the secret of Blanka Vlasic, who appears practically invincible this season?
- Vlasic doesn’t have any secrets. All athletes have peaks and valleys. Blanka waited for a long time for her hour, and now it has begun. But if we look at the results of the women’s high jump over the last several years, there hasn’t been any single sportswoman who has been able to hold high shape for two years in a row. Recall, there was the strong South African athlete Hestrie Cloete, there was Kajsa Bergqvist, and this winter Tia Hellebaut beat everyone. Even Lena Slesarenko was once really quite strong, and it seems like this will never end. There is nothing terrible, it is just necessary to keep working.

- By the end of the season will Vlasic be able to beat Stefka Kostadinova’s 2.09 m world record, which has already stood for 20 years?
- I doubt it. We now all just arrived from Asia, from the east, and I think the overall level of results will fall somewhat because of the acclimatization issue. Only five days ago we jumped in the final of the world championships. It will take a couple of tournaments to adapt. But if it’s possible for Blanka to hold the same level, it would be simply wonderful.

- Undoubtedly in five days you’ve analyzed your performance in Osaka in detail. What wasn’t quite right there?
- I decided to put everything down to bad luck. Well, probably I didn’t get enough rest while training, and on the day of the final my feet were heavy. But by and large, my physical shape was good. If I’d jumped 2.03 on the first attempt like I should have, everything would be entirely different. Or even if I’d cleared 2.03 with the third, I nevertheless feel that it could have changed everything. But it came out as it came out; I didn’t make my jumps and ended up the fourth. It didn’t go my way, as so often happens in sport.

- Many are blaming the failures on the problems with acclimatization, and in particular, on the final training camp in Vladivostok.
- I was only in Vladivostok one day. It was proposed that I depart on August, 15, but this wasn’t suitable for me since my final was on September, 2 and the 15th was neither here nor there. There were no tickets to Vladivostok on later dates. So I initially trained at home in Volgograd, but we shifted the hours to start adapting to Osaka. Then on August, 20 I departed for Khabarovsk, stayed there a few days, flew to Vladivostok, and finally on August, 27 I got to Osaka with the last group. Certainly, if there had been direct tickets I wouldn’t have made the detour through Khabarovsk.

- Did these problems significantly affect your overall condition?
- I didn’t have any serious problems, and felt pretty good in Japan. I trained in Volgograd for almost two months under outstanding conditions. But certainly the decision to take the whole team to Vladivostok was a mistake. Still, one issue is the difference in the time; there are five hours difference from Moscow to Osaka, and seven hours to Vladivostok. I don’t see the point of chasing the team hither and yon. In my view, it was worthwhile to either fly into Japan earlier or to find some city in Russia in the same time zone as Osaka.

- Rumor has it that the living conditions in Vladivostok were not the best. - Like I said, I was just in Vladivostok one day, and this was a rest day for me; therefore my opinion is based more on stories from my friends. But let’s just say that when I flew into Vladivostok there was nobody waiting for me. The senior team coach for the jumps, Anton Nazarov, said that I should go to the hotel "Amurskiy Zaliv", but when I arrived they told me – you needed a different hotel. And how did I know where to go: where they said I should be? Thanks to the people who led me there, everything was settled quickly and, of course it wasn’t a big deal, but I still had the impression that not everything was fine and dandy. Well, initially there was very scant nourishment, and I know the guys were upset. But when they learned we had a 200 ruble per-diem for food, they immediately stopped complaining. On this money they were very well fed.

- How did the acting chief coach, Valentin Maslakov, seem to you in Osaka?
- Since I arrived in the last group, I wasn’t there for the first overall team meeting, and was late for the last one because I was going through doping-control. I can’t say anything, because I know almost nothing. In the opinions of many of the guys it became easier for them, because there weren’t such rigid controls as Valery Kulichenko imposed. Now everything was somehow more democratic and relaxed. And yet I didn’t notice anyone not working to honestly fulfill their functions.

- Was Osaka a good lesson before Beijing-2008?
- Certainly. Indeed it’s impossible to say: I rested two months, arrived at the world championships, came out badly, and so now my life is over. I accomplished very extensive work, and now I want to realize it at my remaining commercial starts. After the completion of the "Golden League" in Berlin at the end of the next week, I’ll go to the tournament in Shanghai. Furthermore I’d like to get acquainted with China; to have a look at the people there; to get a general understanding about this place on the map. Before the Olympic Games in Athens we also drove to Greece for the training session. For the moment the most important medal of mine is already at home. It remains to confirm it and to try to reach new heights.

19:40 03.12.2009
Ruslan Zakharov: the grants of “The Russian Olympians Foundation” - are additional motivation to compete better
Yesterday, on Desember, 2, the Russian short-track team went to the training camp in Kolomna, after which at the Russian championships the names of five athletes (two men and three women) the participants of the Olympic Games 2010 in Vancouver will be defined. The leader of the male Russian team, multiple champion of Russia, bronze medalist of the Universiade 2009 Ruslan Zakharov told to the Agency of sport information “All Sport” how the financial problem in such non-commercial kind of sport, as short-track, is solved.

16:28 30.11.2009
Jury Charkovsky: the grants of “The Russian Olympians Foundation” became perfect support for the coaches and servicemen
Yesterday, on November, 29, in Kuusamo (Finland) the second stage of the World Cup in cross country finished. It happened to be one of the most successful in the recent years for the Russian team: in four races Russian athletes won medals, six more got in the best “ten”, seven more finished in the best “30”. The head coach of the Russian cross country team Jury Charkovsky commented on the successful participation of the athletes and specially notified the role of “The Russian Olympians Foundation”, which realizes the “salary” program of support of winter kinds of sport before the Olympic Games-2010 in Vancouver.

10:42 30.11.2009
Alexander Katushev: I was afraid that not all the schools would cope with the financial reports, but we had no problems
“The Russian Olympians Foundation” (which was founded by 15 leading Russian businessmen, the head of the Tutorial council is the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev) sums up the first year of the program on support of children-youth sport schools. The executive director of “The Russian Olympians Foundation” Alexander Katushev told about the details to the Agency of sport information “All Sport”.

23:11 27.11.2009
Alexander Katushev: some legislation points and the system of sports development in Russia and in South Korea are close enough
Recently the leaders of the South Korean foundation “Sport talents of the future generation” visited “The Russian Olympians Foundation” (which was founded by 15 leading Russian businessmen, the head of the Tutorial council is the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev). The executive director of “The Russian Olympians Foundation” Alexander Katushev told about the details to the Agency of sport information “All Sport”.

18:33 25.11.2009
The leaders of the Russian figure skating team Alena Leonova and Sergey Voronov spent the training camp in Switzerland with the help of “The Russian Olympians Foundation”
The leaders of the Russian figure skating team - the World junior champion 2009 Alena Leonova and two-times Russian champion Sergey Voronov – have held the training camp in Switzerland with the help of the grant of “The Russian Olympians Foundation”, received by the program of support of children-youth sport schools. Tatyana Menshikova, the director of the children sport school of figure skating in Sent-Petersburg, whose students are more than a half of the members of Russian team, told about it to the Agency of sport information “All Sport”.

09:54 15.11.2009
The second forum “Russia is a sport country” will be held in Moscow
The second all-Russian sport forum “Russia is a sport country” will be held in 2010 in Moscow, from July, 29 to August, 1. The deputy chief of the organizing committee of the forum, the deputy chief of the department of the president of Russia of maintenance of activity of the RF State council, the head of the presidium of “The Russian Olympians Foundation” Alexey Kulakovsky told about this decision of the RF president Dmitry Medvedev to the Agency of sport information “All Sport”.

09:15 04.11.2009
Alexander Katushev: for the moment more than one thousand athletes of summer kinds of sport get more than two thousand summer prize grants of “The Russian Olympians Foundation”
“The Russian Olympians Foundation” has started the realization of the program of support of summer kinds of sport “London-2012”, in the limits of which the grants for the total sum 500 million rubles will be paid. For the moment more than thousand athletes became the grants’ receivers of more than two thousand grants. The executive director of the “Russian Olympians Foundation” Alexander Katushev told about the details to the Agency of sport information "All Sport".

21:18 31.10.2009
Alexander Katushev: Sergey Bubka told me that he would like to organize in Ukraine a foundation similar to our “The Russian Olympians Foundation”
The president of the Ukraine Olympic committee, the first vice-president of the International association of athletics federations (IAAF), the member of the International Olympic committee (IOC), the Olympic champion Sergey Bubka considers possibility of creation in Ukraine a foundation of support of the national sports - by the example of “The Russian Olympians Foundation”. The executive director of “The Russian Olympians Foundation” Alexander Katushev told the details to the Agency of sport information “All Sport”.

14:19 30.10.2009
Alexander Katushev: at the All-Russian sports forum in Kazan the pilot project of “The Russian Olympians Foundation” on the support of youth sports schools was highly appreciated
Last weekend in Kazan the first All-Russian sports forum “Russia is a sport country” was held. The executive director of “The Russian Olympians Foundation”, the member of the organizing committee of the Forum Alexander Katushev noticed to the Agency of sport information «All Sport” that the forum appeared the necessary and opportune platform for discussion of the basic problems and tendencies in development of the Russian sports.

19:07 24.10.2009
The leaders of the South Korean foundation “Sport talents of the future generation” wish to visit “The Russian Olympians Foundation” to adopt its experience
At the beginning of November the leaders of the South Korean foundation “Sport talents of the future generation” wish to visit “The Russian Olympians Foundation” (which was founded by 15 leading Russian businessmen, the head of the Tutorial council is the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev), to study the activity of the Russian colleagues more precisely and possibly adopt the experience of their work. The executive director of “The Russian Olympians Foundation” Alexander Katushev told about it to the Agency of sport information “All Sport”.

23:21 02.10.2009
Alexander Katushev: too many factors influence on the final result of our participation at the Olympic Games in Vancouver - athlete's, coach's, manager's work, and for some kinds of sport, unfortunately, the work of the WADA
“The Russian Olympians Foundation” (which was founded by 15 leading Russian businessmen, the head of the Tutorial council is the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev), which for the moment is realizing at once two programs of support of winter kinds of sport - “salary” and “bonus”, hopes that our athletes at the Olympic Games-2010 in Vancouver will show the results, at least, not worse than four years ago in Turin. The executive director of “The Russian Olympians Foundation” Alexander Katushev told about it to the Agency of sport information “All Sport”.

11:25 02.10.2009
Alexander Katushev: for the moment “The Russian Olympians Foundation” is realizing at once two programs of support of winter kinds of sport - “salary” and “bonus”
“The Russian Olympians Foundation” (which was founded by 15 leading Russian businessmen, the head of the Tutorial council is the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev) for the moment is realizing at once two programs of support of winter kinds of sport - “salary” and “bonus”. The executive director of “The Russian Olympians Foundation” Alexander Katushev told about it to the Agency of sport information “All Sport”.