Natalia Vorobyov acted as the lawyer of world wrestling for the PROsport magazine

Intention of the International Olympic committee to throw out wrestling from the Olympic program led to terrible scandal, power change in the international federation, to emergence of theories about "the world plot of gays against a machismo on the Olympic Games" and to mass protest actions from Chicago to Tehran. While our politicians try to gather points in campaign for rescue of "the most ancient sport", PROsport asked to play a role of the lawyer in hypothetical court against the sport Olympic champion Natalia Vorobyov. This charming 21-year-old girl after London became, perhaps, the main star of our national team.

CHARGE: The Olympic status for wrestling — is a matter of life and death. Wrestling will be lost if it exclude from the program of Games.

Vorobyov: I hope that it after all doesn't happen and the common sense will prevail. I don't know of what there think in the IOC, but it seems to me that million people worldwide now are perplexed concerning plans of sports functionaries. All know that wrestling — is one of original forms on the Olympic Games, and the exception of this sport will undermine idea of Games. Probably, without the Olympic status wrestling won't die, but such outcome will strike on young athletes. Here I lived in hope the last four-five years to act on the Olympic Games, it forced me to train and take down adversities. And now present a condition of the child who prepared itself for the main event in life — to an exit to the Olympic carpet and suddenly it appeared out of work because of a whim of officials.

CHARGE: Wrestling can lose wrestling for the Olympic Games because as the old resident of the program of Games considers to compete below the advantage with rock-climbing and roller skates.

Vorobyov: Well, each sport is in own way pleasant. But personally I don't understand when to wrestling charges of not staginess sound. In my opinion, it at all so. Even against rock-climbing and roller skates.

CHARGE: Wrestling became numb in its present forms and for interest increase at fans needs radical reforms.

Vorobyov: And me, on the contrary, apparently, that the former head of the International federation of wrestling Raphael Martinetti too often changed rules and it depreciated our sport. For example, when athletes at the equal account pulled a lot and became in the provision of a clinch. Favorable lot — a victory for 80%. But after all it is simply frivolous — to assign destiny of a duel to luck. However, I think that if to make any clever additions to present rules and something unsuccessful to clean, everything will rise on the places. Old rules to me seem much more interestingly.

CHARGE: Times when fans of 10 hours in a row watched wrestling wrestling on the Olympic Games of 1912, passed long ago. The television demands from wrestling of bigger dynamism.

Vorobyov: Yes, now not those times when the hours-long drama on a carpet can satisfy public. But, on the other hand, I wouldn't began to equal all all alike. After the Olympic Games in London very different people approached to me — kissed hands, thanked. About some of them I never would think that wrestling can interest them. It is magic of the Olympic Games, magic of big-time sports. And I think that the IOC has to adduce very telling arguments against wrestling. Present links to a low television rating to me seem doubtful.

CHARGE: At wrestlers very modest prize-winning, and sponsors and advertisers show weak interest to this sport.

Vorobyov: I only the athlete, and my business — to train and act, instead of to think of financial problems. It seems to me that prize-winning we normal and money in wrestling have enough. Nobody lives in misery.

CHARGE: Wrestling is popular only in the region round the Black and Caspian seas. Athletes from other parts of the world seldom reach here big heights.

Vorobyov: I don't agree. Wrestling is popular in Russia in the huge territory — from Vladivostok to the North Caucasus. I from the Irkutsk region, and at us with popularity of this sport am a full order. And I tell it only about classical Olympic disciplines. And after all there are still national types of wrestling — on belts and any other options. I wasn't engaged in them, but I know that they have many admirers in different corners of a planet.

CHARGE: Wrestling — too travmatic and too brutal sport.

Vorobyov: The trauma can be got in any kind of sports if you leave to act as the unprepared. Yes, many wrestlers have professional traumas — the broken ears and so on (by the way, I still avoided fractures of ears). But all this not an occasion to expel wrestling from the Olympic program. In boxing of people in general fists on the head beat, and in tkhekvondo — feet. And anything — nobody says that these sports are too brutal.

CHARGE: Fans in wrestling are immoderately emotional and aren't always adequate. The certificate to that is in Russia already two lifetime monuments to wrestlingers champions: To Varteresa Samurgashev in Rostov-on-Don and to Alexander Karelin in Petersburg. Now also there is a project of a monument to Natalia Vorobyeva.

Vorobyov: Are emotional and. Well and what in it terrible? People give to wrestling the nerves and the time — for it I can tell them only thanks. And as for my future monument, I only for. Same sports promoting. And on it, at least, will come to nobody to mind abusive words to write.

CHARGE: The international federation of wrestling doesn't trouble itself with communication with acting athletes. All key issues are resolved behind backs of wrestlingers.

Vorobyov: Still and the truth anybody especially didn't consult on me. But, on the other hand, think: I am only 21 years old, I only begin the way in sports. Probably, there are people who are more authoritative and are more worthy to represent opinion of athletes. I hope that after power change in the international federation this problem will be removed by itself.

CHARGE: Wrestling — a nutrient medium for criminal elements. Many former wrestlers after the end of career appear in mafia structures.

Vorobyov: I can tell nothing about it, I in wrestling didn't face criminal persons. And how to build the life after the end of career — a private matter of each athlete. It seems to me that wrestling, on the contrary, distracts people from adverse influence of the street. Our sport forms character in the person and gives strength to resist to circumstances.

CHARGE: Female wrestling — the artificial project which is necessary to keep only in the Olympic program.

Vorobyov: Yes, some consider wrestling not as a women stuff, but we live in the XXI century and a place of the woman — not only at a plate. Female wrestling is self-sufficient, and, in my opinion, even there is no sense to attract additional public due to more sexual appearance of sportswomen. To us that, with a flowing hair and with false eyelashes to come to a carpet? I think that it not the most convenient option. There is quite enough informal beauty contests at competitions and that I out of a carpet often appear in a dress both on heels and in photoshoots I participate.

CHARGE: In wrestling there are a lot of casual champions. To fly up on top in this sport, it isn't obligatory to devote to it all life.

Vorobyov: To act at top level, I needed 11 years of trainings. I assume that there can be a person who will quicker capture an essense of wrestling and quicker will understand how it is necessary to win. But it seems to me that in the Olympic program there are simpler types. And precisely in wrestling it is impossible to win without huge wearisome work. In general all this sensation round deprivation of wrestling of the Olympic status — is additional advertizing for our sports. I think that now very many people will look at a situation not blinkered look and will be able to resolve an issue of, whether it is fair to expel wrestling from the Olympic Games. After that at the IOC any more there will be no choice.

Vorobyovy Gory

The being most remembered victories of the leader of Russian national team

Olympic Games-2012 ending. Against a sixfold chemkpionka of the world of the Bulgarian Zlateva's Machines effective reception "mill" thanks to which judges recorded a victorious touch was carried out. Many consider Vorobyeva's tactics in the Olympic ending adventurous, but Natalia assures that after two in a row early victories was sure of the forces.

Semi-final of tournament of Yarygin — 2013. Vorobyov escaped in a hopeless situation, having managed to get out of capture of the repeated winner of tournament of Ekaterina Burmistrova from Ukraine. Burmistrova is considered very inconvenient competitor for Natalia — before the Ukrainian several times won to Vorobyov at status competitions clinches.

World Cup on female wrestling — 2012. Natalia won on a touch against fivefold world champion Keko Hamaguti from Japan. Our national team as a result after all gave a final duel to Japanese with the score 2:5, but Vorobyeva's success was recognized as the most convincing on all tournament. It was the only early victory in all seven wrestlings of the ending.

Olympic Games-2012 semi-final. The acting Olympic champion Tszyao Van from China appeared on shovels in 17 seconds after the duel beginning. The Chinese woman looked in London very surely, won against all competitors ahead of schedule, and many designated her a new gold medal. And Vorobyov on the eve of Games got a silly injury of a foot, playing on training soccer.

The ending junior champion the world — 2009. Vorobyeva's first significant title. In the ending the 18-year-old Russian defeated Roxana Yankolovichi from Romania which was more senior than Natalia for two years. After that Natalia held a title of the strongest yuniorka of a planet for three years. And none of her competitors in the junior championships didn't manage to achieve success in the adult category at once.

The ending of the championship of Russia — 2012. Vorobyov of all in a minute was quit with the first number of national team Ekaterina Bukina. To this duel Natalia place in a national team on the Olympic Games in London at all wasn't considered as the guaranteed. Many trainers believed that the hour of triumph of Vorobyeva will come only on the Olympic Games-2016 in Rio, and now it is necessary to keep its weak an organism and nervous system.

Championship of the Irkutsk region in free-style wrestling — 2004. In 13 years of Vorobyov became the champion of area, requisitions of all rivals boys. Before these competitions Natalia allowed as tournament for girls of her age simply it wasn't held. But after that success forbade to compete with boys to a rising star: having lost to the little girl, guys so were upset that gave up wrestling.

PROsport, 01.03.2012

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