GIVE, NINKA!
GIVE, NINKA!
Interview two hours prior to the Olympic ending... That he saw,
Except full physiognomies happy having a rest? Or dissatisfied, but all
Equally full? The Massovik-inventor - to itself the director, the clown and eternal
The engine...
But here there was it. The Cinderella from swimming. To itself character,
The hunter of water and its fakir-exorcist...
That has told and where has looked then - anybody any more does not remember.
Not an essence important. But the mayor of the city of Terramolinos precisely remembers, how
Tirelessly stamped pieces of paper about marriage registration.
... Fransis it was bent through a protection of the second floor and something
Has vigorously cried out towards training pool. Fragile
The girl with a bag through a shoulder on which it has been written "Spain",
Has given in the answer up as a bad job. Second I fluctuated - generally they are necessary
To me there were both, - has then jerked downwards, by amazed with mine
In the speed of protection. Nina Zhivanevskaja already looked at hours. To
The Olympic ending remains two hours. And for this time
Our meeting has been appointed.
The champion of Europe and the world record-holder, the former leader of the Russian
Swimmings, and now the leader of Spanish, having sent to husband Fransisu
Air kiss, has flopped near to me on a tiled floor. "You
You do not represent, what here protection system. The husband cannot
To go down downwards, all of us look out for time each other... "Protection,
As if having felt, that is a question of it, has terribly gone in
Our party. We have silently spread on neutral fifty
Centimetres. Instead of a greeting I have thrown out forward a hand with
Dictophone. The uncle in a uniform has frowned and... For some reason
Has threatened Fransisu with a finger.
Sydney became for Nina the Zhivanevsky third Olympic Games. In
Twenty three years - the third. In Barcelona to it was all
Fifteen, and there already it left in the ending on the distance and
Has won "bronze" in the combined relay race. In Atlanta -
Nineteen, the eighth place though the next year she has won
World Cup in swimming on a back. And here at last Sydney - bronze
The award. The unique bronze award of Spain in swimming...
- Yes here in general the madhouse has turned out, - Nina speaks, on the Russian
To habit, very quickly, but a little confusing words, - the first medal
On the Olympic Games for all Spain I have won!
An hour later the Spanish girl has won a gold medal in a judo.
Fur-trees! Has arrived after all to another's country. Who could then to think...
Such behind shoulders remains - the truth-truth, two years the hardest
Has gone through. Neither citizenship could not receive, nor languages did not know,
Prospects plainly...
- Under laws of a genre you should tell further, that in general as
The vagabond in the street lived... And I should tell, that the love heated you...
- And anything ridiculous. In the street I, of course, did not live. And love...
Yes, to me has carried.
- I it just saw - nice such. You that,
The adventurer on character? It is necessary - to arrive to Spain on rest
And in hotel to twirl the novel with the person from the serving
The personnel. Fransis there the manager was or whom?
- I from myself similar did not expect anything, especially mine
Parents. Though mum has been for some reason assured, that I will marry for
The foreigner. I did not expect anything and so all it was chaotic, that
Then already nobody could recollect - who the first has looked: it on
Me or I on it? Fransis worked in hotel - the manager on
To free time. Someone speaks - the massovikom-inventor. It is possible
And so it to call. That is in the evening music to track, show
To put, entertainments, games everyones to think up...
- Really you ran "cockerel", clapped wings and tried
The tennis ball clamped between knees to lower in a glass? Usually
On rest such games...
- With what I did not run. I in a bar have met him. In the evening with
The father we sat in a bar. In the afternoon always left on the sea, I it am simple
Did not see. And in the evening also have met. When have left in Spain,
Rest short, were simply friends. Has returned to Russia, we
Have started to correspond, call each other. Have left in September,
And the seventeenth it had a birthday - I have called and
Has congratulated. In February at date of Valentine - he has congratulated, and so
The chain was untwisted. A year later I have arrived for ten days. And
He already - for New year to ask my hand. Was very cold
The winter, I still has strongly caught a cold... And here it - suntanned such,
The shining. Well also has talked to my parents.
- Has knelt and has in Spanish told: "Give!" - not
In Spanish, and in French. Parents with it in French
Talked. And I - in bad English. Mum with the daddy not
Minded, knew already as he lives what family at it... So
Have given me. And I have left on a world-97 Cup.
Has won it, Fransis, still the groom, came to Paris to look
Competitions. Shouted heart-rendingly: "Give, Ninka! Give!" And the first
March I already was in Spain.
- Now at you a dual citizenship?
- The Spanish. Spain does not give double if was
Possibility, that, certainly... With departure there are no problems, it is necessary
Only to wait seven days, to make the visa. I have not enough
Time to be wound to Russia. But two times a year with parents
We see. I know, you wish to ask: what it - under the stranger
As flag to act? I think, that the flag both has, and has no value,
Because I feel myself equally that in Spanish, that in Russian
To water, we will tell so. And always I say to reporters in Spain, that out of
Dependences on a flag I try make all that I can. The third
The Olympic Games (I think, that there will be also the fourth) very much were pleasant to me. I
To it osoznanno, whether that, has approached. To me in Barcelona was fifteen
Years - all has passed nervously enough, and I am not enough that saw. Even
Now in general I remember nothing. As lived, that fur-trees - anything
I do not remember. Atlanta - more or less, but too has passed chaotically. To that
I have unsuccessfully acted. And here - "bronze". And I have achieved it
Itself, by means of the husband.
- It you is figurative so speak, about the husband? That - here so:
Has fallen in love, married, has given up job and has understood, that all life dreamt
To become the trainer?
- Yes, the husband acts in a role of the trainer. Though anybody again does not know,
As it to name, as the rank of the trainer at it is not present. And it
Never as the trainer worked. But what was to do? I float on
To the program, four months worked under a management
American trainer Sisela Russell, last one and a half month -
Itself. Experience of independent trainings at me is. When has arrived
In Spain, had no right to act, two years has passed without
Competitions. And so, two years floated under old programs, still
Samara, - there was an American.
- Then it have planted...
- Then it have planted... And now the husband helps me, goes with
Me on trainings, time marks. The program of trainings mine -
It I make and Fransisu I explain, as as.
- Almost detective history with your American trainer
Has strongly struck on nerves?
- Not it is so much on nerves has struck it is simple very good
The trainer, and it was heavy to lose it. I in any way did not expect, that that -
That can happen. And till now I do not know what to think. It
Have detained on border with the big consignment of drugs. And to believe not
It would be desirable, that it is guilty. I with it was in enough close
Relations also I know, that it very good person. A family good.
Sociable, about swimming can speak twenty four hours in
Days. Sisel was born in Ireland, has then left in the USA. Some years
He headed swimming club. And trained in Southern a little
To America, Canada. It was then switched to business and to Spain has arrived
On firm affairs. We trained in one pool - its children
Are engaged in swimming. And on the sly Russell has started to prompt to me,
That it is necessary to change in trainings. I have listened - and results
Have changed. He rejoiced together with me and copecks of money not
Took. Though I tried to insist.
- You did not come to see him in prison?
- It have planted absolutely shortly before the Olympic Games and - in America.
- Really this history has not threatened your start in
Sydney?
- The only thing that has jarred on... Certainly, me have there and then begun
To suspect in something. It was slightly unpleasant, soft we will tell.
Has talked to federation, has explained, what's happened, that to mine
The fault is not present... The Trainer did not represent neither federation, nor club
Concrete, he was engaged with two children and me, and more one
The boy of seven years was.
More shortly, - it is possible to consider Russell's employment, its hobby. Therefore
The federation does not concern that, what's happened. And me
Have believed... And I know till now nothing about the trainer. In my opinion,
Even the court yet was not.
- Here you come with a medal to Spain...
- I have learnt much, and, I think, it will be possible to work and
Further. This year slightly mad has turned out - after two years
Idle time. Five stages of a World Cup, Europe on short water,
The national championships, Europe, Monte-Carlo... It is time to have a rest. In
Following season I aim only at the World championship in Japan.
- For now will be the housewife?
- No, it at us - Fransis.
- You joke? That, also prepares, and the house cleans, and to shop goes,
And ware washes?
- Houses were prepared by mum, in Spain - the husband, I was well arranged.
As job at it is not present - too it cleans the house. Ware I
To it I do not trust to wash - itself very much I like this business.
- Someone from the great said, that when you wash ware, is thought
Well...
- Yes. I not the idler - am simple at me two trainings in day,
I am exhausted strongly.
- And in what language you say to the husband that would be quite good
To wash floors?
- In Spanish. We live three together - with the son of my husband, to it
Twelve years, also call him Sasha, it has helped me...
- Sasha?!!
- Well a name such. Fransis has given it Russian name. Probably, already then
Lasted to all Russian. Wants a daughter. The girl will be called
Natasha. After all while it is floated - I float. As early as a year, probably,
Precisely. And then it will be necessary to make a break.
- On Natasha?
- It would be desirable. And so, Sasha to me has fine helped with Spanish.
He at all did not know English, and it was necessary to me
To talk to it on its native language. Has tortured all
Relatives - simply stuck with a finger into subjects and asked: "And
It that? And it? "In general, has plunged into language the natural
In the image. Sasha French at school learns. I too want now for
The textbook to undertake. At me for today three languages in very good
Status, but the husband knows five, I should last. Though on
Competitions sometimes hard it is necessary - you jump from language
On language...
- Though you and the Olympic old resident but to think in twenty three about
Leaving from sports, probably, rather early. Tell, there is an age
Limit for swimmers?
- For whom as. All depends on the person, from any
Material benefits - brings their sports or not. And from possibility
To be engaged in then business. What at us, in Russia? Simply exit more often
For the sportsman is not present: or without job, or it would not be desirable it to search. Here
Also continue to float. I, to tell the truth, am slightly already tired from
Swimmings. That there was any motivation - it is necessary for me at least
To have a rest.
- Then also you, and Fransis will be without job, and you should wash
Floors most...
- The husband will be to pass next year examinations for the assistant
The trainer. The first step... And with this step it already can
To work. I think, that I too can be arranged with the trainer - with
Bronze medal me for certain will accept. Or at us is under construction
The huge centre - near to the house. And I have finished institute
Managements also I can work though as the sales manager... It
Other possibility.
- It is possible to open a private school still...
- It is necessary to have the pool. To construct it not a problem.
The problem - to find a place. If to invest the capital... It very much
Good business. In Spain, for example, it is a lot of old men, which
Not very well, how much money they will pay, simply want pobultyhatsja
Half an hour.
Still possibility - in agency to work as the translator. It is possible in
Hotel to work. I do not know, whom, the truth.
- No, I all the same should ask: and that the mother-in-law thinks on
To occasion of the Fransisa-housewife?
- And me from it has carried. It remarkable, as well as all huge
Family, - at Fransisa three sisters and the brother, all with the families, and
All are going to on days off in the house at mum.
- More shortly, the life in Spain has gone right?
- I now in you will spit.
- What's happened?
- Well you at the left sit, and to spit to me it is necessary through the left shoulder.
... It has spat and has crawled away from our neutral strip, therefore
That to the ending remains practically nothing. I still any time
Has sat, reflecting, how several years ago parents
Almost force have forced our leader of swimming movement
To go to tiny Spanish small town Terramolinos.
The mood at the leader was fig, performances - nasty.
That she saw, except the chlorinated water and devil's running
Seconds? Or not chlorinated water, but all the same running seconds?
And here there was a massovik-inventor...
Irina STEPANTSEVA.
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