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02.07.2016 - 20:29
Honored people of Belarus received state awards on the eve of the Independence Day. And who is claiming the Olympic medals? And in what form will our athletes appear in Rio de Janeiro? Not in white pants, as the scoundrel Ostap Bender dreamed. And no one announces plans for adventurous, Bender's. But still, our correspondent Yevgeny Pustovoy found out what the Belarusian athletes are counting on and what the audience can expect from the first Olympics in South America.
But Belarusians won't be wearing white pants. Our athletes will stand out from the Olympic picture of the world in their sports uniform. And not only clothes, the whole country hopes.
Yulia Latushkina's tags on dresses and costumes of famous Russian pop divas. Now the Olympic wardrobe according to the patterns of the eminent designer.
Yulia Latushkina, designer, developer of the Olympic uniform:
I am proud that, firstly, that our state agreed to this. We made our appeal to the artist. Everyone will notice in this uniform, it is not business after all, it is business-sports.
The President appreciated the athletic form of the entire Olympic team. Alexander Lukashenko himself is in excellent shape and constantly monitors the content and development of the sports industry.
Alexander Lukashenko, President of the Republic of Belarus:
For sports, and, first of all, sports of the highest achievements, everything necessary is being done in our country. I don’t think anyone can stand up and say that they didn’t have enough money to prepare for the Olympics. Tell us as clearly as possible what we are going to Brazil with and if there are still unresolved issues that should have been resolved these six weeks before the start of the Olympics.
They report to the president: they did not save on funding, they did not interfere with the most daring experiments, they did not set plans for medals. But the authorities are investing a lot of money in sports, and the Belarusians naturally wait.
The Olympic slogan “Faster. Above. Stronger ”is taken from a Latin dictum. So, the third call - "Fortius" - means not only physical strength, but also moral - to stand to the end. And courage, as you know, takes cities. And even those that became Olympic capitals.
Maxim Ryzhenkov, First Vice President of the NOC of Belarus, Assistant to the President of the Republic of Belarus on Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism Development:
Here everything is primarily in the hands of their closest advisers. These are coaches, psychologists of the team, who should specifically tune athletes to that healthy patriotism, find worthy words for them that will allow them to motivate them for that high result. They should just come to the finish line and say that he is almost dead. Then we will really have these medals.
Maxim Ryzhenkov - the highest sports official in the literal sense - oversees the basketball federation. Therefore, with special pride, he focuses on the banner behind his back. This is the ticket for the Rio women's national basketball team. Our girls "bought" it with their sweat and persistence. Do not bargain on if yes, maybe all members of the national team should.
The most impressive number of athletes in Rio are from Belarus in athletics - 37 people. Also, 22 rowers, a women's basketball team, 8 weightlifters, and the same number of swimmers will compete for the honor of the Blue-eyed. In total, at XXXI Olympic Games our country will be represented by 136 athletes in 25 sports.
Sergei Makarenko is the first Belarusian Olympic champion. In 1960, he and Gomel resident Leonid Geishtor brought "gold" to the Soviet piggy bank. Makarenko reached the sports Olympus, or rather, swam in just five years of training. Soviet athletes never "rowed" for themselves.
Sergey Makarenko, the first Olympic champion of Belarus:
Then there was more enthusiasm, but now there is more pragmatism. You need to speak not for money, but for your homeland. This is the main idea.
Actually, Sinekoy is lucky to be rowers. The cycle of victories did not turn the head and the Bogdanovich brothers. Although they are Olympic champions, they are modest and train at an ordinary sports base not far from Minsk.
The correspondent of the "Picture of the World" also managed to get involved in the training of the Olympians. The conclusion of the journalist: the burden to victory is not easy. A remark - your oar for rowers, like a shirt - closer to the body.
How important little things are, the coach of the Olympic duo explains literally on his fingers.
By the way, the waters of Brazil are native to canoes. True, now the floating craft is not made of beech, but carbonate. And they weigh lighter - 16 kg each. But the load is the same. He waved the oar - count half a centner raised.
Alexander and Andrey Bogdanovich, Olympic champions, members of the Olympic team of the Republic of Belarus in kayaking and canoeing:
After the European Championships, we are now rolling back this week: aerobic exercise with body weight. The next weeks will already be more intense, more difficult. After Independence Day, let's go into battle.
The whole country is interested in the preparation of athletes. Even this drake duck closely follows the Olympic scope of the Bogdanovichs.
The most important thing is attitude. Rio's salt water should be light and sweet victory. The President also speaks of the optimistic mood. This trip is not a vacation, but a real test of four years. Alexander Lukashenko emphasizes: only those who have grown from the pants of Olympic tourists to the contenders for the laurel wreaths of the Olympics should fly to Rio.
Alexander Lukashenko:
You must understand that "tourists"we're not going to take you to Brazil. We all understand that there are no weak opponents at the Olympics. Every year it becomes more difficult to win medals. But this is no excuse. If we see that there is no chance, there is no need to disgrace the country and spend people's money.
The message of the Olympics of antiquity is to bring peace, and the message of the Games of our time is to open yourself to the world. In the era of chariots, competitions were stopped by wars, in the age of space shuttles - the Olympic flame kindles confrontation between states and stirs up interest in the victorious countries.
Alexander Lukashenko:
Sport is big politics. You see what is happening now, what a struggle is going on. Keep in mind that there should not be a situation where at the end of the performance in Brazil or after eight years, they will again begin to select medals. If we dabbled in these doping or were engaged, then it will not seem a little. But I am absolutely for the purity of sports. Large states, huge states will always find an opportunity to outplay us in this matter. If it is pure sport, we have more opportunities to win medals.
The Olympic Games have always required impact . True, now instead of fictional gods on the altar of worship there is an international image, for the sake of which they are ready to sacrifice the reputation of their rivals by any means.
All means go into battle. Even those that cannot be identified in laboratories.
It's no joke, but some coaches associated the unprecedented success of the Chinese in Beijing with mythological overtones. Maybe these were just excuses? But behind the carnival polish of South America, the intrigues of local shamans can also be hidden.
Yulia Latushkina:
Every stripe, every element means something. Of course, something was coded.
In form, the sports uniform is fashionable, and in content - with a sacred meaning and authentic energy. These hooks and lines are pleasing to the eye and keep the evil eye out.
For the first time, designers have foreseen even the little things. Covers for clothes, devices and bags in one style. The Olympic wardrobe consists of 23 items.
The President personally gives the order: the Olympic exclusive - in circulation.
Alexander Lukashenko:
This form must be commercially available. So that every person, if he has a desire, could buy these clothes and thereby join Rio and, in general, sports.
Clothes for athletes in any size that is not athletic. They sew it at Belarusian enterprises, so there will be enough for everyone.
In these pre-Olympic days, every department store in the capital is in shape. What was previously available only for athletes can now be bought by any Belarusian. Embroidered shirt, T-shirt with the victory appeal "Belarus, forward!" and even a business suit.
It is gratifying that the fabrics are natural, made in Belarus, and on them the ornament of our state symbol - the flag. However, these colors are even on the buttons.
The very presentation of the sportswear took place in the Olympic Hall of Glory of Belarus.
President's message: to stand out in Rio not only with your athletic form, but also with your physical fitness. As they say, they are greeted by their clothes, and they are seen off by medals.
Results of performances of sportsmen of BFSO "Dynamo" at the XXXI Summer Olympics-2016 in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
The sports honor of the country in the national team of the Republic of Belarus was defended by 41 athletes of the BFSO "Dynamo" in 14 sports: athletics - 15 people, rhythmic gymnastics and academic rowing - 5 participants each, table tennis - 3 athletes, freestyle wrestling, sailing and bullet shooting - 2 people each, boxing, Greco-Roman wrestling, cycling, kayaking and canoeing, judo, diving and weightlifting - 1 participant each.
Representation on regional organizational structures of BFSO "Dynamo" looked as follows:
1. Brest - 10 * people in three kinds of sports (boxing, rowing, athletics);
2. Vitebsk - 3 * people in three sports (cycling, judo, athletics);
3. Gomel - 4 people in four kinds of sports (Greco-Roman wrestling, academic rowing, rowing and canoeing, athletics);
4. Grodno - 8 * people in three kinds of sports (freestyle wrestling, track and field athletics, bullet shooting);
5. Minsk - 20 * people in nine sports (freestyle wrestling, artistic gymnastics, academic rowing, judo, athletics, sailing, diving, bullet shooting, table tennis);
6. Mogilev - 1 person in one sport (weightlifting).
Note: * An asterisk marks athletes who give credit to two organizations (5 people in total).
The Olympic team of the Republic of Belarus won nine medals at the 2016 Games (1 gold, 4 silver and 4 bronze). They were awarded to 12 athletes. It should be noted that Dynamo athletes have four medals. "Silver" for Daria Naumova - weightlifting, Mogilev OOS (regional organizational structure), Ivan Tikhon - athletics, Grodno OOS; "Bronze" for Ibragim Saidov - freestyle wrestling, Grodno OOS, Marina Litvinchuk - rowing and canoeing, Gomel OOS.
The fourth places were taken by Vladimir Samsonov - table tennis, Minsk MOS (inter-territorial organizational structure), and Marina Litvinchuk - rowing and canoeing, Gomel OOS. Seven Dynamo players took fifth places (Vasilisa Marzalyuk - freestyle wrestling, Melitina Stanyuta - rhythmic gymnastics, Maria Kadobina - rhythmic gymnastics, Maria Kotyak - rhythmic gymnastics, Arina Tsitsilina - rhythmic gymnastics, all - Minsk MOS, Stanislav Scherbachenya - academic rowing, Gomel OOS, Tatyana Kholodovich - track and field athletics, Brest OOS), three - sixth places (Ekaterina Galkina - rhythmic gymnastics, Minsk MOS, Marina Litvinchuk - rowing and canoeing, Gomel OOS, Ilya Chergeiko - bullet shooting, Grodno OOS / Minsk MOS), one - seventh (Anna Malyshchik - athletics, Brest OOS) and three - eighth (Yulia Bichik - academic rowing, Tatyana Kukhta - academic rowing, both - Brest OOS, Alena Dubitskaya - athletics, Grodno OOS).
It should be noted that sportsmen representing the Gomel, Grodno and Mogilev regional organizations "Dynamo" have added to the Olympic chronicle. Unfortunately, the athletes of the Brest, Vitebsk and Minsk organizations, representing a total of 30 members of the Olympic team of the Republic of Belarus, failed to do this.
The result of the performance of the sportsmen of the BFSO "Dynamo" could have been much higher had it not happened that the men's team in kayaking and canoeing had not been unexpectedly suspended from participation in the Olympics.
Now the Olympic podium "Dynamo" for the entire time of participation in the Olympics from 1952 to 2016 is 87 people who have won 127 medals (40 + 38 + 49) in 16 sports out of 27, developed at the BFSO "Dynamo".
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We bring to your attention the full list of representatives of the BFSO "Dynamo" at the 2016 Games in Rio. Detailed results of the performances of each athlete can be found by opening the page with his name in the list.
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List of Dynamo athletes, oI-2016 participants in Rio de Janeiro |
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| Athlete | Kind of sport |
| Brest regional organizational structure | |
| box (69 kg) | |
| rowing academic | |
| rowing academic | |
| rowing academic | |
| athletics (core) | |
| * | athletics (3000 m s / n) |
| athletics (length) | |
| * | athletics (walking 20 km) |
| athletics (hammer) | |
| athletics (spear) | |
| Vitebsk regional organizational structure | |
| cycling (omnium) | |
| * | athletics (hammer) |
| * | judo (66 kg) |
| Gomel regional organizational structure | |
| greco-Roman wrestling (98 kg) | |
| rowing academic | |
| rowing and canoeing | |
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athletics (triple) |
| Grodno regional organizational structure | |
| freestyle wrestling (125 kg) | |
| athletics (hammer) | |
| athletics (core) | |
| athletics (hammer) | |
| * | athletics (hammer) |
| athletics (hammer) | |
| athletics (800 m) | |
| * | bullet shooting (VP-6) |
| Minsk inter-territorial organizational structure | |
| freestyle wrestling (75 kg) | |
| * | judo (66 kg) |
| gymnastics | |
| gymnastics | |
| gymnastics | |
| gymnastics | |
| gymnastics | |
| rowing academic | |
4 Aug -Sputnik. A little more than a day is left before the start of the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, in the Olympic Village the Brazilian wind is waving the Belarusian flag with might and main, but not all blue-eyed athletes will be able to become part of the main sports event of the four-year period.
"For myself and for that guy"
Even before its official start, the 2016 Olympics managed to become one of the most scandalous in history. Russia turned out to be at the epicenter, and it is not surprising that a blast wave also covered Belarus. Three weeks before the opening ceremony of the Games, the world sports community was shocked by the suspension of the Belarusian men's kayak and canoe team (including doctors and coaches).
The International Federation still cannot clearly explain the reasons for this decision, but even to a person who is completely far from sports it is clear that in this way the competitors were removed. Brothers Andrey and Alexander Bogdanovich were clear contenders for the highest places in the Olympic Games, but the meldonium found on the coach of the women's team canceled all the rowers' plans for the Olympics.
"With the absence of Vladimir Shantarovich's wards on the rowing channel in Rio, we will definitely miss several medals. Despite this decision of the International Rowing Federation, I am glad with what mood the female part of the kayak team is approaching the starts. Support groups have already been organized in social networks, and If you read the comments, then there is no doubt: Belarusian athletes will compete at the Olympics “for themselves and that guy,” this applies not only to rowing. The Belarusian Olympians in Rio will have high motivation. I have no doubt about that, ”the vice-president said. President of the National Olympic Committee (NOC) Maxim Ryzhenkov. BelTA quoted him.
By the way, Belarus is sending the smallest team in its sovereign history to Rio - 124 athletes, they will compete in 25 sports. For comparison, four years ago in London, the country was represented by 173 athletes. Unfortunately, this is not the case when the squad would not notice the loss of a soldier. Apart from rowers, tennis player Victoria Azarenko, who is expecting a child, Marina Shkermankova and Dina Sazonovets disqualified due to doping, Andrei Kravchenko, an injured decathlete, and the men's national gymnastics team will not go to Rio.
How much is "gold"
Ryzhenkov made it clear that a very concrete result is expected from the Belarusians. At the same time, the medal plans for the Games were never announced at the official level. The vice-president of the NOC stressed that it will not be possible to blame the weather and other external factors, as is often done in Belarus - you need to go out and show the result of four years of work. For the result, the country's leadership is ready to pay generously: for the "gold" the athlete will receive 150 thousand dollars, for the "silver" - 75 thousand, the bronze medal "costs" 50 thousand. By the way, according to this indicator, Belarus is in the fifth place among the CIS countries, the top is Azerbaijan, where the athlete who won the first place will get rich by 510 thousand.
The Ministry of Sports of Belarus believes that this amount (150 thousand) is quite worthy.
Village is not the right word
The Olympic Village in Rio was supposed to be one of the best in history, but so far it is very far from that status. The Brazilian authorities promised to put the city in order and fight crime by the start of the Games, at least for the duration of the competition. None of this has been accomplished. The first complaints about living conditions in the Olympic Village appeared a week ago: the Belarusian delegation that arrived there faced dirt in the rooms and a lack of hot water. The Australians, who were later robbed altogether, found themselves in a similar situation.
Basketball players, cyclists, track and field athletes, yachtsmen, rowers and other athletes already live in the Olympic Village. Fortunately, they have not received any complaints lately. But the Belarusians, who have yet to join the national team, say that such conditions will not frighten them. But at the same time, many of them are openly afraid to take to the Brazilian streets. So, the yachtswoman Tatyana Drozdovskaya said that she would not arrange any cultural program in Rio for herself. By the way, the Belarusian Embassy in Brazil also advises to avoid certain places in order to avoid accidents. And the Republican Scientific and Practical Center of Sports made recommendations for the adaptation of athletes in Brazil.
However, not all Belarusians have arrived in Rio yet and they have enough time to thoroughly prepare for the Games, not only in terms of training. The last delegation - athletes and freestyle wrestlers - will leave for Brazil on 17 August.
The cyclist instead of the shooter
This week, the International Olympic Committee decided that only active athletes who will compete in Rio 2016 can be the standard-bearers of national delegations at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. Yes, at this moment, the national team flag was to be carried by the Olympic champion of London-2012 shooter Sergei Martynov, who went to Rio as a coach. At an operational meeting of the headquarters of the Belarusian delegation in Rio, cyclist Sergei Kiriyenko, famous not only for his sports achievements, but also for his ambiguous statements about the Belarusian language, was chosen as the standard-bearer.
“Excuse me, maybe I will offend anyone, but the Belarusian language is not a living language; it is a dead language, in which almost no one speaks. I think it is forcibly imposed, for example, they are forced to study my daughter. And if they ask me whether it is necessary to do this, I will answer: “Of course not!” Kiriyenko said in an interview.
The fans immediately recalled these words to him and demanded to replace "not a patriot", since he has no right to carry the flag of Belarus at the Games.
But the captain of the national team remains the same - canoeist Alexander Bogdanovich. According to the Minister of Sports Oleksandr Shamko, a rower who has been removed from the Games will go to the Olympics anyway.
Stylish, fashionable, Olympiad
There was a lot of talk about the Olympic form of the Belarusians. Business suits in gray and red colors with patterns of Belarusian ornaments were to the liking of many, and, most importantly, the athletes themselves. Many Olympians admitted that the previous uniform was so inconvenient that they did not want to take it home, and things were often "forgotten" in the Olympic village. The same clothes, according to designer Yulia Latushkina, an athlete can safely wear after the Games.
Today, July 23, the first Belarusian sportsmen - an archery team - are going to the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. They will reach Brazil by the morning of the next day - the flight will be long and with a transfer.
The current Games, or rather the atmosphere and emotional background around them, are somewhat out of their usual rut and differ from what happened on the eve of the Summer Olympics of previous years.
No competition with grain growers, no medal plan, no hard order for victory
In 2004, before the Olympics in Athens, to increase the degree and motivate athletes, the President of the National Olympic Committee Alexander Lukashenko organized unprecedented competitions between peasants and Olympians - they say, who will show themselves better: athletes at the stadium or grain growers in the field of harvesting. And although the winner in these competitions was not officially determined (it is difficult to understand by what criteria to judge and how many tons of ground grain to equate to a medal of what value), the workers of the agricultural industry liked this spirit of competition.
In 2008, before the Games in Beijing, farmers rushed to harvest their crops and, without the participation of the president, challenged the athletes themselves. Those, in turn, were motivated by the state, having appointed awards for the Olympic medals in the amount of 100, 50 and 30 thousand dollars, respectively, for gold, silver and bronze. And then the prize money was supplemented with apartments.
At the same time, both for Athens and Beijing, the Ministry of Sports and the NOC made medal plans and forecasts. They did not make a secret of this, but the estimated number of awards was not advertised.
But before the London Olympics, sports management had already moved from predictions to requirements. Competitions with farmers by 2012 became boring and out of trend, and therefore Alexander Lukashenko and the most eloquent minister of sports in sovereign history tried to take on the role of the main motivators for the Olympians Oleg Kachan.
Alexander Grigorievich, who accompanied the athletes to the previous Games with fatherly parting words and wishes of good luck, turned the Olympic principles upside down in 2012.
« I want you to understand that everything happens in sports, but not at the Olympic Games. A person prepares for the Olympic Games and prepares all the reserves that he has. Therefore, there can only be a victory. - The main thing is not participation, but victory. Here is my order on behalf of the Belarusian people "- said the President of the NOC.
Oleg Kachan, in turn, almost at every public appearance, fervently emphasized that in London the Belarusian athletes were tasked with winning 25 medals, five of which must certainly be gold.
By the way, the prize money was increased before London. The rates have risen to 150, 75 and 50 thousand dollars.
However, neither money, nor plans, nor even the president's ultimatum had any effect. In London, the Belarusian team held its worst Olympics, winning twelve medals - two gold, five silver and five bronze.
Apparently, having come to the conclusion that it is not worth using the whip method with the athletes, before the current Olympics, the leadership again changed tactics. Now there is no medal plan, for the first time there are no forecasts of the Ministry of Sports and the NOC on the number of awards, and at the farewell ceremony, Lukashenka did not punish, but expressed hope.
“We hope for the victories of the Belarusian athletes. You will plunge into the sea of \u200b\u200blove and attention from our grateful fans. It is equally important that the state will appreciate your every successful performance. I will be very happy if this Olympics gives us a reason to sum up its results in the same solemn way, in front of all the people and present well-deserved awards to all who forge the country's Olympic glory ”- said the president.
Solemn seeing-off of the Belarusian sports delegation at
XXXI Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
“There really are no medal forecasts for this Olympics. The bet is placed on each athlete, - confirms the press secretary of the NOCAnastasia Marinina. - We hope for traditionally medal-intensive sports for Belarus. Track and field athletics, weightlifting, rowing, rhythmic gymnastics, taekwondo, cycling, wrestling, table and tennis, sailing ".
Prizes for medals remained at the level of the previous Olympics.
Who, when and how flies to Rio
The Belarusian delegation to the Games in Rio is not numerous compared to the delegations to the Olympics in 2008 and 2012. Thus, Belarus sent more than 300 people to Beijing, of which 180 were athletes; to London - 350 people, of which 166 are athletes. Only 230 people fly to Rio, of which 125 are athletes.
Both the administrative and technical headquarters and the number of athletes have been reduced. By the way, after Beijing - our most successful Olympics - the then Minister of Sports Alexander Grigorov noted that the ranks of athletes "Could still be cleaned".
Before the Olympics in Rio, the purge, apparently, was quite tough and the number of "tourists" was minimized.
“Weak athletes do not go to the Olympics, - said Anastasia Marinina. - If an athlete has won a license, then he is among the top athletes in his appearance ".
As the previous Olympics show, about every tenth athlete becomes a medalist among Belarusians. Taking into account these statistics, as well as the men's kayak and canoe team - one of the main contenders for the awards (in London, male rowers won two silver and one bronze), we dare to make a disappointing forecast - in Brazil in terms of medals, the national team of Belarus can set an anti-record.
But for now, I don’t want to think about the bad, and we propose to preserve faith in the best to the end. With her, at least, it will be more interesting to watch the performances of our athletes, the first group of which today, on July 23, went to Rio.
The pioneers from the Belarusian delegation - the technical group - are already in Brazil. They flew to Rio in the middle of this week.
Since Saturday, the transfer of Belarusian troops to Brazil and in the opposite direction will take place almost every day. The women's basketball team will be the next to leave for South America, leaving on 25 July.
“All athletes, with the exception of those who fly to Rio from foreign training camps or competitions, go to Brazil on the same route: Minsk - Frankfurt - Rio. It was not chosen by chance. It is with this route that the minimum waiting time for a transfer is 6 hours. On other routes, the waiting time for a transfer would be from 9 to 12 hours. The arrival time in Rio is also very convenient - around 6 am local time. The air carrier is Lufthansa. The national air carrier Belavia has no planes that can perform such 12-hour flights. ", - Anastasia Marinina revealed the details.
“Someone arrives in advance, before the start of the Games, someone is already in the process of the Olympics. It all depends on the type of sport and recommendations that are developed for each athlete by the appropriate specialists, based on the factors of acclimatization, weather conditions and other subtleties ", - adds the press secretary of the Ministry of Sports Vladimir Nesterovich.
At whose expense is the banquet?
The Olympics itself, as strange as it may seem at first glance, for Belarus is perhaps the most economical tournament in terms of government spending.
Firstly, accommodation and meals for all accredited persons, that is, for the entire delegation, are paid by the organizers of the main start of the four-year period.
Secondly, the Belarusian side will initially have to fork out for the flight from Minsk to Rio, but then the International Olympic Committee will partially compensate the cost of tickets to each member of the delegation.
“Compensated from 30% to 80% of the cost of tickets. The amount of compensation is different for each category of persons. For athletes - one, for the administrative headquarters - another, for officials - a third ", - Anastasia Marinina explains.
We looked at how much the tickets cost for the flight our athletes fly. A one-way ticket from Minsk to Rio in economy class will cost 1430 euros, in business class - 3450 euros.
But as for the costs of preparing for the Olympics, then the figures are, of course, colossal and they fall entirely on the shoulders of the state.
“We did not count how much money was spent on the training of one Olympian, but in general, in four years, about 120 billion rubles went to prepare for the London Olympics, with the exception of salaries”, - noted in 2012 the assistant to the president for physical culture, sports and tourism development Igor Zaichkov.
If you translate this amount into a dollar equivalent, you get about 15 million (in mid-August 2012, the dollar exchange rate was about 8,350 rubles).
In London, Belarusians won 12 medals (there was still gold Nadezhda Ostapchuk in shot put, but after doping disqualification, this medal was taken). That is, roughly speaking, each of them cost the country $ 1.25 million.
The costs of preparing for Rio were not disclosed. Neither the NOC nor the Ministry of Sports could provide us with information, just as we did not try to achieve at least some figures. However, they are unlikely to become smaller.
Will the cheerleader fly to Rio?
During his presidency of the country, Alexander Lukashenko (which is neither more nor less than 22 years) attended three Olympics: one summer and two winter.
Lukashenka's Olympic debut was the 1998 Games in Nagano, Japan. They say that Alexander Grigorievich was not going to the Olympics initially and decided to visit it only after two victories of the dear hockey team over the Germans and the French.
Alexander Lukashenko at the Nagano Olympics. Photo by ITAR-TASS
At the same time, the Japanese authorities denied the president an official visit, but he flew anyway. Moreover, Lukashenka, apparently, was so worried about the hockey team that, in violation of all the rules, during one of the trainings of the Belarusians he broke into the site.
“We trained on ice. We look, the president is coming to us. He came up, greeted, supported the guys, and asked me: "Why so pale?" I don't even remember what I answered. And the fact that the media wrote that he was trying to teach us to play hockey is not true. He only supported the team and wished to perform as best as possible among the strongest teams in the world. He had a short talk with us and went to inspect the palace ", - recalled in an interview for website Anatoly Varivonchikwho led the national team at the time.
The subsequent Olympic Games - in Sydney (summer, 2000), Salt Lake City (winter, 2002), Athens (summer, 2004) and Turin (winter, 2006) - Alexander Lukashenko watched, like most Belarusians , on TV. The reason for this was the perceptibly shaken image of Belarus in the international arena in terms of observing the principles of democracy.
For example, the then Minister of Sports and Tourism, appointed by the head of the Belarusian delegation in Athens Yuri Sivakov was forced to lead the team from his office in Minsk. Suspected of involvement in the disappearances of well-known Belarusian politicians Sivakov, the European Union and the Greek Foreign Ministry warned before the start of the Games about the possibility of his deportation or even arrest if he appears on Greek soil.
And by the time the Olympics were held in Turin, Belarusian top officials were also restricted from entering the EU countries.
Alexander Lukashenko and his son Nikolai
at the Beijing Olympics. Photos BELTA
In general, Alexander Grigorievich got to his next Olympics only ten years later. In 2008, in Beijing, with which Minsk was already friends with might and main, the Belarusian president and his youngest son Nikolai were greeted with open arms.
In 2010, the Games in Vancouver, Lukashenko, as reported by the media, preferred a business visit to Switzerland, which was combined with "Short-term rest".
Alexander Grigorievich was not accredited for the 2012 London Olympics.
“President Lukashenko is on the list of persons banned from entering the European Union due to his participation in violation of international standards during the presidential elections in Belarus on December 19, 2010, as well as the subsequent suppression of civil society and democratic opposition. This prohibition remains in effect and will apply during the Olympic Games. The decision on this issue will not be changed ", - said in the message of the British Embassy in Belarus.
At the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, the Belarusian president and his son Nikolai were received as relatives. At the same time, the head of the NOC did not just follow the performances of our athletes, but was one of the first to congratulate them in case of success.
Whether Alexander Grigorievich will fly to Rio is still unknown. The press service of the NOC does not have this information. And contact the head of the press service of the head of state Natalia Eismont we failed.
By the way, if the president nevertheless decides to visit the current Olympics, it will be his second visit to Brazil. In 2010, Lukashenka and his youngest son have already visited this sunny country.
