Vasily Solovyov: "Telling the truth about the skaters can not. Now let others keep silent "
Vasily Solovyov fifteen years commented on "NTV-Plus" figure skating. After the Olympic Games in Sochi, he decided that this is more to do. Why - Solovyov explained in an extensive interview Sports.ru.
- You have officially announced that he was leaving the profession commentator. Why?
- It's not every second story. In Russia, a small market sports kommentatorstva. And I'm just a commentator, not a journalist. "NTV-Plus" - this is my family. There my mother worked there work friends of our family. Withdraw from the family to the Games in Sochi was impossible. When I was three years ago came to Mitya Chukovskii and said, "Mitya, I think about how to finally move into the sphere of filmmaking," he said: "You ofonarel, or what? To Sochi even do not want to hear. " Gradually, I became a producer, I get business - one another. And all the time I said to myself: "We must go, we must." While going, all resorbed itself. Golf - find people who comment on it or with me or for me. Figure skating - contract "NTV-Plus" with ISU collapsed, and the rights to the championship of Russia was the first time in 16 years sold RTR, not us.
I approached the Olympics almost a free man. Well, when I arrived in Sochi, everything was so good in the sense of the Olympics and so bad in the sense of what is happening in this figure skating that I affirmed its decision.
- What exactly was bad?
- I used to live with this. Tried to step back from this, but still sucked. Sat in the commentary booth - and someone has something somehow obliged. Sat down with this - then crossed the road to another. Sat down with the other - so mortally offended it. We did not speak for several months with Tatiana Tarasova, because I, you know, with the dancer Vazgen Azroyan commented some competitions.
- And they are enemies?
- What if he said something about the students or people close to them, or something else ... Right after that ether - call: "How could you? You should not have to comment on it! ". What do you mean - should or should not? I'll decide. Who you all are?
And others say: "Basil, when did you stop with Tatiana Anatolevnoj comment? You can see that it is pursuing only their own goals. " No, friends, it is much more objective than many of this world.
The most exciting thing in figure skating: scary - it's not about someone when you said bad; scary - it's when you anything about someone said. It is not even evaluated. Say Natalia Linichuk and Gennady Karponosov come up to you and say, "Basil, well you probably forbid us to talk about? Or you do not love us so? You never, COG-da of us do not say anything. " Well, as it "never"?
Plus, in this world you feel is a stranger. Some things you can say much more correct those involved in figure skating life, but for them you're still a stranger: because he never skated. We somehow communicated in this regard with Tarasova. One of the best technicians in our figure skating - Peter is sick. He had engaged in dances, not on the ice, and just dancing. Then he became a choreographer, began working with the skaters began to learn the rules, then just changed the system and he learned it so thoroughly that all the people of skating with him were advised how to put these or other programs.
Tarasova me at the time to meet him and said: "Peter knows more than anyone else." But it was when there was an urgent need. After a while, when all have learned these rules, elements and components, they had a different main theme: how can a man who has never skated, we point out something here?
Well, then - when you realize that things happening for obvious forgery, which no one can intelligently expand any air or on the internet, you know: say nothing about it at all costs.
- Forgery - what's that?
- When the referee starts the game. For me is still a mystery how the International Skating Union manipulates these estimates. Only two options. Or people who sit near the rim - nine judges and three technical specialist - advance say put. Or all that they imply, is irrelevant - and a man sitting at a computer and mouse moves these estimates. Either that, or so. Because some things that happen in figure skating, I just do not believe.
- Like what?
- The most elementary thing - evaluation Adelina Sotnikova in Sochi. I repeat: Sotnikov, Vodorezova Tarasova and clean here. They do their job, they figachat his person that he was the best. If human talent allows - as, for example, Yagudin in Salt Lake City - he becomes the top of the best. But when a man is not as gifted as Yagudin, he still gives all of himself out on the peak shape, and then the judges begin to compare it with others.
Do Sotnikova the past two months for assessment components increased by 14 points. For those who are not very topic: estimates for the components more or less forever. But since the last skater and performances before the Games in Sochi, they increased by 14 points. No one can explain - why.
If it was in Turin - gold with skating Carolina Kostner would take. If in Korea - even issues have arisen that Yu-Na Kim became the champion. And I look at these 14 points and trying to understand: it is all the judges suddenly become so good or sits a man who moves all this?
- So and how it is calculated? Will wear black caviar and Versace?
- As far as I understand, at ISU and our federation, and with any other federation relationships are built so that it is somehow regulated. Perhaps if the judges are not loyal - they no longer get the job. They do not get her millions, but for them it is constant replenishment.
I repeat: I was ready to put up with these. But I'm tired. Okay, there was a story only estimates. But after athlete skated immediately begins the story with peaching - someone wants to send. Now we had two camps: the environment and Sotnikova Lipnitskaya. Though it is said that "we are a team," there megaslozhnye relationship. Just look at the two coaches, to make it clear: this is a war. Without slaughter and scuffle, but the real war - people are fighting for very important things. Once one Squeezer - to suit you immediately from the opposite camp, and tell all her mistakes: "But note how wrong axel as it does not slide here, and here she has substituted a second leg."
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