A conversation with the deputy-head of Moscow's Department of Physical Culture and Sports
Throwing sticks is one of the earliest skills mastered by humans. They needed it for survival but at later times this activity became an entertainment.
Seems like our athletes are left without a motivation to win for the sake of their country.
Russian football is more than a century old and our green fields have hosted footballers of all trades. In other words outside the football field the players have different occupations both during their career and after it's over: military men, diplomatic couriers, opera singers – fate is capricious.
Relations between the Soviet sports management and the International Federation of Equestrian Sports (the FEI) have always been rather strained, seeing as how the Federation was usually presided by European royalties who remembered what the Bolsheviks had done to the Czar’s family quite well.
In the early 1970’s a colleague of mine from a certain youth magazine wrote a series of books about ice hockey together with the famed coach Anatolii Vladimirovich Tarasov.
