Slyusareva Biography Olga

Olga Slyusareva, Olympic champion: “I am sentimental, but I didn’t cry on the pedestal” MySlo talked with Olga Anatolyevna Slyusareva, the Olympic champion in cycling, a wonderful person and just a beautiful woman. Olga Slyusareva came in an interview with our editor. Calm, modest, with a charming disarming smile on an open face and with a fervent young luster in his eyes.

Until the very birthday, when friends and acquaintances began to call and congratulate, I did not even think about this figure. And on April 28, it knocked on the head laughs. They say that everything is pretty, builds a girl out of himself. No, that's not the point. I just have such an internal state. When I was a little over thirty, psychologically my age stopped at 26 years.

Well, now I am a little more. And 50 is not mine at all! I can still: with the boys through the fence, and climb the trees with them. I have small children, and I just need to look good. Four boys, they look at me - you can’t get old smiling at me. I want them to be proud of me. Does not let go. I would like to “chase”, perform, go somewhere ... A very large part of life-30 years-was held in sports, on a bicycle.

I'm not tired of sports at all. I have a feeling: now I’ll sit on a bicycle now and will go as quickly as soon as I smile before. Some kind of inner lightness. I was lucky to live just such a sports life, although, like every athlete, there were many difficulties and disappointments. But I began to relate to this early early, because I understood - it all depends on a person.

I talk with children on this topic. They tell me, here, I dream of this or something. I answer, you understand that the dream comes true, for this you need to do something. I also dreamed of becoming a world champion, and for this I trained, worked a lot and became a world champion ... six times! There is such an expression that God has no other hands, except for yours. And I paraphrase for myself: God has no other legs, except for yours.

They all lie in the box, ribbons are dented, children play them. When we moved from the apartment with the whole family to a big house, it was my dream! There are enough worries and others, especially since this is not the happiness for a long time. What emotions did you experience when you won gold? There is only 25 minutes there, a circle of meters. But so many conversations with yourself during this time!

A little more than half of the race passed, and I actually lost it. Four athletes went on a gap, and I thought that I would not catch up with them. And I was driving for victory. How to return home without a gold medal? This is a shame, you can burn with shame! At that time I was already a four -time world champion, and I said to myself: “If you lose now, who needs your four medals, this is an absolute zero!

And I realized that I do not want to get fifth place. How is it, I have no chance? I do not agree! There is always a chance, only you need to use it correctly. And I picked up, caught up with everyone, overtaken and won this Olympics. On the pedestal I already had a quiet, calm joy - there were no emotions or tears. I am a very sentimental person, I can burst into tears above the film or cartoon, but on the pedestal - never.

I had thoughts that I could return home with a calm soul and proudly raised. Are you rooting for someone? This year he turns 22 years old, he already has the entire set of medals from all kinds of championships and bicycle races behind him.

Now he goes from juniors to the male elite, this is a very difficult period. He dreams of getting to the Olympics, gives an example of Mikhail Ignatiev, an athlete from St. Petersburg, who at the age of 19 became the Olympic champion in Athens. And I tell him, to each his own. He won the Olympics at the age of 19, and the next day I was 35 years old. But now your son is triggered by youthful maximalism ...

- Egor and Bogdan are also riding? We have a favorite family sport - a triathlon where they run, go on bicycles and float. In June, we will take part in competitions in the Moscow region. What is your secret? I would like to return to the form in which I was, I have to work and work before, or, as my coach says, “drown and drown”. You just get used to one size, and then you are a little blurry, and it is already unusual to buy clothes in completely different sizes in stores.

Although I hear a lot of compliments addressed to me. Perhaps this is imperceptible to people from the outside, but I have something to compare. I am a coffee machine, I can't do without coffee. I was accustomed to this drink by Italy, where I lived for 10 years. There is a cult of coffee, and I sat on it. But I look through social networks only when all the children are laid to sleep.

Then I already read news, letters, order clothes for children in online stores. I cook meat or fish for mom, children can sometimes eat. By the way, at the table we often watch “matchmakers” - this is the favorite series of our family, the children dismantled his quotes. It is very good to rest under it. Dancing, music school, drawing, gymnastics, tutors ...

This is not for children, but parents. Listen to children and take into account their wishes!