Pierre de Coubertin’s ideas and messages are surprisingly still up-to-date representing the philosophy of the Olympic movement. This is a multifaceted and wise philosophy and everyone finds something personally important in it. I personally view as very important such ideas as people’s aspiration for perfection and unification, since only a peaceful competition forms the noble basis for the Olympic movement. This is as relevant as ever in the modern world, which opens unlimited opportunities for people, but at the same time is being torn by conflicts, contradictions and standoffs. However, I am an optimist and I strongly believe in the bright future of the international Olympic movement, I am glad to see changes that took place in the sports movement of Russia.
Dear friend, how do you put up with spleen?
Choose drunkenness or sport?
Studies have shown that walking boosts creative inspiration.
I’m playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition – that’s what I’ve always wanted.
I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting.
These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.
The body remembers everything. It really does.
Psychiatrists say that the games we watch and play are a reflection of the collective national psyche.
Now you lost back there because you beat yourself. You let yourself get beat.
What I do is I just try to take my hat and I turn it around, and it's like a switch that goes on. And when the switch goes on, I feel like another person, I feel, I don't know, I feel like a... like a truck. Like a machine.
It's time to do it for yourself, and you can do it.
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