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.
This place is saturated with history. Major competitions, sports idols and heroes are visibly present here. Their fates – sometimes tragic – come to memory and stir emotions.
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.
We are continuing our encounters with the young aspiring athletes from Moscow and Russia. This time we turned to winter sports. Suddenly we realized that Moscow athletes are hard to catch up with because they are constantly away form home at training camps at other cities. It is virtually impossible to interview a young talent. In the end we managed to meet the young skaters from “Moscow Youth” sports club. The young athletes had to withstand a multitude of questions and camera flashes.
Alexander Rukavishnikov is quite familiar with sports. His works include monuments to the legendary footballers Nikolai Starostin, Lev Yashin and Eduard Streltsov, two-fold Olympic champion in wrestling Ivan Yarygin, as well as numerous compositions about karate.
