Day with a night has mixed up.
Day with a night has mixed up.
Well here all also has come to an end: eight years of preparation of organizers
The games, four years of the most persistent trainings of the sportsmen, two weeks
Unforgettable competitions more than ten thousand the strongest,
Fast, dexterous and successful athletes from two hundred countries of the world,
Delights of victories and bitterness of failures, wreck of authorities and launch
To nobody of known names. And in summary multidaily flight
Home through two ocean and two ten countries, definitively
The day which has mixed in our tired organism with a night.
... In world press, and at sessions MOK time and again rose
Question on carrying out of the Olympic Games in one country. For example, in
Greece - on their native land. Say, and new constructions each time
To build it is not necessary, and the organisation of Games becomes each time
To improve, and to a various climate to get used it is not necessary. Personally I
It is glad, what is it the offer has not passed. Would not be then
Surprising high-mountainous and musical Mexico City,
Tragical Munich, prudish Montreal, surprising Seoul,
Discordant and loose Barcelona, extremely hot Atlanta
And, of course, far-predalekogo Sydney.
The mullions-strong huge megacity only the centre is similar on
New York, and other, "undersized" part reminds the silent
Seaside small towns once Baltic close to us. The core
The population of Australia - more than 80 percent - is concentrated in
Cities. But, believe to the eyewitness, problems with products
Australians, or as they themselves name, "ozi", not
Test. We have seen it at once, as in the centre
Cities near to a hall where there passed volleyball tournament,
There is a Chinese market, where the sea every possible, at times
Strange vegetables, and hardly further butcher's shops, in which
It is terrible to enter without preliminary sanobrabotki, so
They are sterile. Sellers - as if surgeons - in snow-white
Clothes, and I do not speak about assortment and quality. I will inform
Only, that in Australia by the law it is forbidden in shops and on
The markets trade in frozen meat. It becomes clear,
When to us have explained, that on each of 18 million
Australians it is necessary ten sheep and the rams, almost two
Cows and one pig. Excuse, that I tell about bread
The essential. But to recollect him it was necessary yesterday, when the wife
Has sent to shop and on the market that did not come off ours
The validity. Products nowadays and in Moscow suffices, but,
The word of honour, having come into meat pavilion and having seen dressing gowns
Butchers in brown stains, blood on counters and having felt
The specific smell, has left and has bought for a spaghetti supper.
It is necessary to tell, that and its vicinities we mastered Sydney
At all of own will: after all have arrived not tourists. But
Organizers that is called, considered copeck, therefore and not
Erected fundamental objects, switching on and new hotels,
Which cannot be used after the Olympic Games termination.
Many sports halls - ordinary hangars with time
Tribunes, then they will be easy for converting under the various
Pavilions and warehouses. Roads new and at all did not build, therefore
Stoppers arose the unimaginable. So the best transport
There were own feet.
As for all arrived places in Sydney, naturally, not
Has sufficed, many have settled on suburbs, and even in the next
Small towns. To me, several more journalists, group of the regional
Sports functionaries, to heads of some areas, and later
And several deputies of the State Duma managed small cosy hotel
On to an ocean coast in small town Volongon, that in 100
Kilometres from capital of XXVII Games. A municipal transportation in him
It is not provided. To station on foot, then hour ones and a half to
The centre of Sydney, then change and again in a way to a stop
Olympic park. Well and there to the main press centre or
Any arena - again on foot. In total on road one way
Left two and a half an hour.
In hotel on the TV the Olympic Games you will not look. And
At all because it would be desirable to witness events. It
Simply... Did not show... Since morning till the late evening twisted
Various fragments from successful performances of Australians. Even
If they have taken far not the first places. Well and if a medal, and
Especially gold, it any more on an hour and not on two - and on
All the day. And here owners, in my opinion, have obviously miscalculated.
After all to sports in Australia the considerable attention is paid.
The Olympic Games - not only a show, but also the best study for
Sportsmen and the trainer. After all knowingly say, that time is better
To see, than hundred times to hear.
To difficulties of moving with arena on arena it is necessary to add,
That the second Olympic zone where there passed competitions on
To volleyball, fencing, struggle and boxing, was in another
Parts of a city from Olympic park. And if it is necessary for you
Was to get, for example, from basketball on volleyball, on
Moving or transition, that on time at times same,
It was required one and a half hour. Therefore home came sometimes in 3-4
O'clock in the morning, rose in 7 that to 10 mornings to be in the press centre and
To pass notes in edition. But a transport problem - still
Half-troubles. Irritated other ill lucks connected, in much more
The core, with inexperience of organizers. We joked, that all
It will be adjusted last day Games, but will be late: next morning
The Olympic Games will come to an end.
To participants of competitions, and to us, the journalists having
Special accreditations which we carried on a breast that
Them, including special services, all saw, it was necessary at times together
With spectators to stand huge turns to get on a train
Or to get on arena. Itself saw, how one sportsman,
Late, probably, on start, begged policemen to pass
It out of turn. Those have refused. I have tried to help. To me
Have politely explained, that the law in Australia for all is identical, and
Special pass for participants it is not provided.
Tell, where it is heard, that on the international
Symposiums, including sports, even less scale rank,
Than the Olympic Games, there it was impossible to call from any city
The world. And in the main press centre of Sydney is it has been excluded.
You can call only. The secret is simple: money pays
The calling. And if so a feedback is necessary for you, remove
Here office with phone.
At any Olympic Games set of sponsors, which for the sake of advertising
Much give free of charge. It concerns and firms of the nonalcoholic
Drinks. Was not in the world of large international tournament,
Including our country, that in the main press centre, where
Journalists spend the most part of time, would not be
Free drinks. First such place became Sydney
The press centre. At any station it is possible to have a drink from the water
fontanchika, in the press centre - is not present. All has risen in price three times, and
The small small bottle "pepsi" cost three dollars.
By hand-written and unwritten rules all services, especially
The press centre, open for two days prior to the beginning of competitions, and
Finish job in day after official closing
Olympic games. In Sydney all has stopped next morning after
Final celebrations. Trains on the Olympic did not go even
To the schedule, and we could not Volongona reach from the to
Olympic park to take away total reports. That-that,
And Australians to consider money are able.
And still it is not necessary to finish memoirs on the minor
To the note. The further the Olympic Games depart, the recollect about less
Difficulties, and in memory remains perfect, quiet,
The prospering country, where in the afternoon, if zaplutaeshsja, from tens
The person will show readiness not simply to show road, and
To spend to a place. Once I could not understand, in what party
To me to go through mnogoljude the central park where had fun
Almost a quarter sidnejtsev. Having seen my concern and
Having understood, that is necessary to me, the very tall and good-natured policeman took
Me under a hand, and we under a rain have walked to the nearest
Stations nazemki.
Australians are slow and as though are a little inert. Can
To be, therefore in the first days of the Olympic Games in a holiday city not
It was felt. But then sidnejtsy have cleared up. And even
At late night in streets and the areas the laughter and music did not cease,
It was full not only youth, but also older persons, and that
Especially surprisingly - young parents. Having adhered the child to
Breasts, as a kangaroo, special belts, the husband and the wife
Had fun to I will fall. And underfoot at adults all time
Children flickered is more senior, and all it gave the such family
Charm to the international sports holiday.
And more about one feature connected with any mass
Congestion of people. Almost for a month of stay in Sydney, everyone
Day being in the Olympic Games thick, coming back in hotel in
Train far for a midnight, I have seen all one slightly
The drunk guy to whom two friends helped to get on a train.
Well and concerning absence of the drunk I will tell, in my opinion,
Curious case. After a victory shpazhista Paul Kolobkova,
Won for our command the first gold medal of the Olympic Games,
The president of Federation of fencing of Russia Jury Bychkov has invited
The journalists who were present at a hall to note success. On
To the central street Dzhordzhia (by the way, it is almost in
Each city as at us once Lenin's street) we have come in
One of numerous restaurants where also visitors with might and main walked, and
Owners. Having reserved meal, we have passed to drinks, and I, unlike
Others, preferring wine and beer, has reserved vodka. The waiter not
Has understood and has asked again. I have repeated. He again has not understood. Then
The correspondent of "Beacon" sitting near to me Evgenie Lepetuhin
Has written a word "Vodka" on a paper napkin. The waiter
Has apologised, has left, to someone has talked and having returned has informed, that,
To a deep regret, this drink at them is not present, but they already
Have sent behind it. When we already have half eaten Spanish plov with
Seafood, the guy has solemnly brought a huge glass with
Drop of a smelly liquid on the bottom also has stretched it to me
Together with the check. If not figures which I on him have read,
I to drink that did not become. Next day I was not too lazy on
To road on competitions to find wine shop. To make it
It has appeared far not simply as them a little and are located
They at all in the centre. What my surprise, when I was
Saw, that the bottle in 500 grammes of vodka costs thirty six
Dollars, and a five-litre jug excellent mozelskogo fault in three
Than time is cheaper - only twelve. After that vodka I any more
Reserved...
Michael prorovner. Sydney - Moscow.
//* an information Source: the Parliamentary newspaper, 13.10.00
//* Reg. Nom. - 1101000211.40-------------------------------------------
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