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12:34 19.08.2008

OLYMPIC GAMES-2008. Vitaly Petrov: I don’t see Isinbaeva as just a slave to sport, and I will be sincerely glad if she marries and has children

Yesterday, August 18th, Russia’s Yelena Isinbaeva became a double Olympic champion after winning the Olympic pole vault tournament in Beijing with a new world record of 5.05 m. Several hours after her brilliant victory Vitaly Petrov, Yelena Isinbaeva’s personal coach, took time out from the celebratory dinner at the Russian Bosco Club to answer questions from the special correspondent of the Agency of Sport Information "All Sport".

- Congratulations Vitaly Afanasevich! Lena has already shared her emotions and impressions in detail. But what does this victory and this record mean to you?
- Personally there is a lot of prestige in all this. And again the "20 years since Sergey Bubka" magic worked. In 1983 Sergey won the first World Championships in Athletics – both his first and history’s. And 20 years later, in 2003 my Italian Giuseppe Gibilisco became world champion. In 1986, Sergey won the first European Championship. After 20 years, in 2006, Lena won the European championship for the first time. In 1988, Sergey became the Olympic champion. Now, in 2008, again 20 years later, Lena won the Olympics with me. I’m glad that over 20 years I haven’t merely kept afloat, but have worked at the very highest level, helping athletes to do their jobs well. And in Beijing it’s become a pole vault holiday for athletics. And I’m pleased and happy to be working with someone like Lena, to whom I can present my principles and methodology, and who grasps and implements them. And moreover, implements them superbly.

- At the height of 4.95 m, and already at the level of Olympic champion, Lena had barely needed her first two attempts. What words did you find to make her not only jump 4.95, but then set a world record at 5.05?
- In such situations, mere words no longer help. Lena needed to somehow light up again and get back into the fight. Not a fight for victory - she had already won - but a fight for the record. Understand what was involved. Just victory would have been… just another victory. But victory at the Olympics with a world record is a different matter; an historic moment. Therefore, I tried to put some pedagogical overtones into everything – my gestures and facial expressions... The most important thing wasn’t making a correct technical decision - for example, exactly how to do her takeoff - but her psychological attitude. Thus I acted like a teacher. Before me stood this great person, and I had to "snap" her into it - into this moment, into this state. And in this way I was able to draw Lena back into the fight.

- But did you indeed say something concrete?
- I simply said: Lena, today cannot get away without a record. Well, then I explained: your attitude, whatever you want, you can do. Now just go and set a record. But earlier in the day, while the competition went on, we discussed everything and arrived at this exact overall conclusion: we had to set a record. Rivalry for the victory didn’t influence our objective. Regardless of how high the American girl Stuczynski is jumping now, she is not suited to fight for victory in the Olympic Games.

- Not suited in principle or not suited yet?
- About the future I cannot know – how everything will be; how it will all turn out. Maybe Lena will regress, maybe Stuczynski will improve. I don’t even want to talk about the future now! Let’s celebrate the victory, and we’ll discuss the future later. Now it’s a big, bright holiday. Considering the situation when Lena first came to me, you can say: today she was reborn. We celebrate Yelena Isinbaeva’s birthday! In this case, in the grand scheme, she hasn’t yet begun to realize her potential with this result. I’m still just waiting for this realization. I think over the next two years she’ll be able to realize a potential of 5.15 – 5.20 m. Not just jumping such heights occasionally, but jumping them routinely. But for this, of course, it’s necessary to constantly work hard, day after day.

- But what general incentives can Isinbaeva have as a double Olympic champion, and already a 24-time world record breaker? What will you determine to be her next goal? Not long-term - to jump 5.20 in two years. But in the near-term, what will motivate her to engage in hard, serious work after this victory?
- Champions - if they are really champions – have the drive instilled in their nature. Sergey Bubka had it. I didn’t give him any incentives; he searched for and found them himself. So has Lena. I haven’t given her any incentives either. To stand firm, to prove - these people simply can’t live without victories. Victory in the Olympic Games, in the World and European championships, in the other tournaments. But if a good irritant happens to come along… (smiles) Take when everyone was saying: Stuczynski, Stuczynski… But this was pure happiness for me! Because I knew: now, at the first opportunity, Lena would show this Stuczynski just who she is.

- Can you now speculate how high Lena will jump to win the Olympic Games of 2012 in London?
- London is still a long ways off. Four years is a long time in sports. Although in pole vaulting, it’s not as easy for someone to just spring out of nowhere in a year or two, as it is in the sprint, distance, throwing and other physiological events. The structure of our event can’t change in this time. Lena is absolutely right in saying that so far she sees no rival. This is simply a statement of fact rather than bravado. But she also must not see any distractions or diversions if she is to stay in the sport and put enough into it to win in London. Maybe Lena will win with 5.15, maybe with 5.20. For now I can only promise that in London-2012 she’ll be prepared to jump 5.20.

- By the way, regarding distractions and diversions… Remember how you criticized Isinbaeva just prior to the tournament in Rome, where she set a world record? In particular, that she insisted on holding one of her training camps in Donetsk? Now, after her victory, Lena acknowledged that she’s in love, and her young man Artem lives in Donetsk.
- Op-pa! I didn’t know about this. Lena said nothing about it to me. But if she told journalists today, then she felt it necessary and important.

- And if she were to say more – that she wanted to marry, wanted to become a mother?
- I am a professional. And Lena and I have a contract: if she decides to leave or if I decide to quit, we must give the other three months warning. We’re not obligated to each other for life. We’re working together to help each other grow, develop and achieve professional victories. I will be sincerely glad if Lena gets married and has children. I don’t see her as just a slave to sport. She is a clever and interesting person with a strong personality. Of course I wish that Lena be bright, beautiful and happy, not only in her athletic life, but her personal life as well.

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.

14:00 07.09.2007
ATHLETICS. Yelena Isinbaeva: "If the season ends without a world record, I’ll be upset, but it won’t be a tragedy for me"
Russia’s Yelena Isinbaeva arrived with the new status to the fourth stage of the prestigious athletics "Golden League" series, took place on September, 7 in Zurich. If we don’t consider the world records, the Olympic champion, the World and European champion in women’s Pole Vault became "two-fold" for the first time – the two-fold World champion. In Osaka she added titles, but in other respects for Isinbaeva everything is as before - press conferences, and tournaments, tournaments, tournaments... The second-half of the "Golden League" is beginning, and if she wins the following three stages, she will win the one million dollar jackpot. Yelena Isinbaeva shared her plans and expectations with Natalya Maryanchik, the special correspondent for the Agency of sport information "All Sport" in Zurich.

21:14 02.09.2007
ATHLETICS. Yuri Borzakovskiy: the third place in Japan is a good result
On September, 2 the World Athletics Championships were completed in Osaka. The Kenyan athlete Alfred Kirwa Yego won the 800 m final for men. The Russian Olympic Champion Yuri Borzakovskiy finished with the bronze medal. And he stated to the special correspondents of the Agency of sport information “All Sport” in Osaka, that for Japan this was a good result.

19:23 02.09.2007
ATHLETICS. Yelena Sobolyeva: for some reason this time Yulia Fomenko and I did not agree about the team tactics
On September, 2 the World Athletics Championships completed in Osaka. Maryam Yusuf Jamal from Bahrain won the final of the women’s 1500 m. The world leader this season, Russia’s Yelena Sobolyeva, settled for the silver medal. Yelena Sobolyeva acknowledged to the special correspondents of the Agency of sport information “All Sport” in Osaka that she was disappointed.

18:40 02.09.2007
ATHLETICS. Anna Chicherova: I’m the second?! Not the third?! That’s so wonderful!!!
On September, 2 in Osaka the World Athletics Championships were completed. Predictably Blanka Vlasic from Croatia won the women’s high jump competition. She cleared 2.05 m, but failed all three attempts to raise the World record to 2.10. Russian Anna Chicherova set the personal record of 2.03. But she learned that she had finished in the second place in the mixed zone from the special correspondents of the Agency of sport information “All Sport”.

09:48 02.09.2007
ATHLETICS. Tatiana Lebedeva: At the Beijing Olympiad I will win gold in both the triple and the long jump
Today, 31 August, the women’s triple jump final took place at the world championships of light athletics in Osaka. Russian long jump gold medalist Tatiana Lebedeva only took second place in her favored form behind Cuban Yargelis Savigne – 15.07 against 15.28. Tatiana Lebedeva recalled with the special correspondents of the Agency of sport information “All Sport” in Osaka that she had gold in the long jump and bronze in the triple at the 2004 Olympiad, and concluded that she will have gold in both events at the 2008 Olympiad.

09:44 02.09.2007
ATHLETICS. Tatiana Lebedeva: it’s necessary to set goals which seem insurmountable - to win gold in two forms at the world championships
Today, 28 August, at the World Athletics Championship in Osaka, the long jump tournament ended in triumph for the Russian school: the 2004 Olympic champion Tatiana Lebedeva won gold, the 2006 European champion – silver, and medalist from many major competitions Tatiana Kotova – bronze. After the end of the competition Tatiana Lebedeva spoke with the special correspondents of the Agency of sport information “All Sport” in Osaka – literally about everything.

14:02 01.09.2007
ATHLETICS. Anna Chicherova: certainly Vlasic appears to be the unconditional favorite
Today, 31 August, the qualification round of the women’s high jump took place at the World Athletics Championship in Osaka. 16 participants reached the 1.94 m standard, including all three Russian women - Olympic champion Yelena Slesarenko, Anna Chicherova (both cleared 1.84 – 1.88 – 1.91 – 1.94 on their first attempts) and Ekaterina Savchenko (the 1.80 – 1.84 – 1.88 heights were taken on first attempts, and 1.91 – 1.94 on the second). 2004 Olympic Games finalist Anna Chicherova shared her impressions with the special correspondents of the Agency of sport information “All Sport” in Osaka.

14:01 01.09.2007
HOCKEY. Pavel Bure’s lawyer: we are satisfied with the courts’d decision, but not with the sum of the compensation
The famed ice hockey player Pavel Bure is satisfied with the decision of one of the Moscow district courts which acknowledged his claims to British Airways, but does not consider the sum of the compensation - 67 thousand roubles instead of claimed 20 millions, to be fair. Pavel Bure’s lawyer Dmitry Ragulin told about it to the Agency of sport information “All Sport”.

08:26 01.09.2007
BOXING. The AIBA President: there won’t be any sanctions applied to the Cuban team, which refused to take part in the World Championship in Chicago
The Amateur International Boxing Association (AIBA) doesn’t plan to apply any sanctions to the team of Cuba, which refused to take part in the World Boxing Championship in Chicago on October, 23 -- November, 3, according to the official version the Cuban team is afraid of provocations from the organizers. The AIBA President Ching-Kuo Wu, who is for the moment with the official visit in Baku, told about it during the exclusive interview to the special correspondent of the Agency of sport information “All Sport” in Azerbaijan.

13:53 31.08.2007
OLYMPICS. Valentin Balakhnichev and Bernard Amsalem signed the Memorandum “Russian—French anti-doping initiative in athletics
On August, 30 in the Japanese city Osaka, where the World Athletics Championship is held, the President of the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF) Valentin Balakhnichev and the President of the French Athletics Federation (FFA) Bernard Amsalem signed the Memorandum, which had been announced on August, 22, “Russian-French anti-doping initiative in athletics”. Valentin Balakhnichev gave the complete text of the Memorandum to the special correspondents of the Agency of sport information “All Sport” in Osaka. We publish it without any changes.

07:52 31.08.2007
ATHLETICS. Tatiana Polnova’s attempt was a miss according to IAAF rule №183.2 "a"
On August, 29 at the World Athletics Championships in Osaka the scandal continued regarding the decision of the judges not to accept an attempt by the Russian pole vaulter Tatiana Polnova at the height of 4.65 m because one end of the bar did not remain on the “peg”, as it is supposed to, but moved upward, to the spacer. The athlete’s husband and coach Sergey Polnov cursed in the technical information center of the World Championships and turned for support to the Vice President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the great vaulter and Olympic champion Sergey Bubka. The technical director of the Russian team, the Olympic Games medalist, and European champion Lyudmila Maslakova described to the special correspondents of the Agency of sport information “All Sport” in Osaka why the judges did not accept Polnova’s attempt yesterday.