You will read "personal record" of Olesya, especially her anthopometrical data — you will quail. And in the Tverskaya, Arbat, on the Nevsky or the Khreshchatyk … Yes on any other crowded street of the world, having met Olesya, you will surely watch her leave. By thousands beauties from different continents can scurry about, but you by all means will allocate Olesya from crowd. Also you will admire! Also you will envy the "virtual" rival: "Someone is lucky!"

And a voice at Olesya house, equal, cozy, having to evening revelations at a fireplace under a glass of good wine.  Only a voice it is possible to fall in love with one.  Despite impressive sports regalia and a sport in which Olesya is engaged, in conversation she seems … unprotected.  And on - maiden vulnerable.  The big body stores trembling soul.

— Olesya, you since the early childhood understood that … not as all. Suffered?

— Unless in kindergarten when the nurse, examining me, I asked: "The girl, you in what class study? " Mother correctly adjusted me at once: "Oleska, to you have to envy. All will pass — them and won't notice, and you — the personality. At once it is visible who all right! You published it is visible. And what good in crowd to get lost? ! " With that also I live. At school and in the yard of the boy didn't tease, and respected. I at them bossed. On garages with them I rushed, I played "voyenka", a hide-and-seek … Then I was fond of basketball.

— You were born in Bashkiria, and a name at you Ukrainian or Belarusian …

— The father waited for the son, Alexey. The daughter athlete, weighing under five kilograms was born. Named Olesya — female derivative of Alexey. You remember, Belarusian "Syabra" sang: "Olesya, Olesya, Olesya … So birds shout in skies …"?

— Perfectly I remember. Sincere song, lyrical …

— And so, having heard this song for the first time, I asked mother: "They that know me, these uncles who sing? " (Laughs. )

— Parents were on friendly terms with sports?

and how! Mother — the good skier, the folder — a shtangist, in my opinion, the candidate for the master of sports was, if not the master. In Kovalenko's family all large. Here and me almost in the first-vtoromklasse mother gave to basketball. I finished badly to the junior national team of Bashkiria, went with team about the country much. To the word. I played in one team with Zemfira Ramazanova whom all Russia knows now as the popular singer Zemfira.

— In basketball everything developed well … Why, Olesya, went to wrestling?

— Basketball — collective game. The team even if in it there is an obvious leader wins and loses. For result all in the answer. And I at heart, in good sense of the word, the individualist. I want to be responsible only for myself and to win against the opponent in private. However, I understood not at once it, but nevertheless … And I brought a case into judo, though say that accidents on light don't happen …

I chose, what calendar card to buy. And in reflection of a show-window I noticed that the unfamiliar man attentively looks at me more than. I turned back. The stranger asked in an emphasis: "The girl, you want to be engaged in oriental martial arts? " I was taken aback, but answered: I "will think". The uncle specified where to come if I decide. It appeared, in a quarter from our house — Palace of culture of plant of rubber products.

While went home from a booth, almost I ripened. Only just wrestlers with Chuck Norris, Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Lundgren came out … These supermen destroyed enemies by means of receptions from oriental martial arts. And I to admit, childly dreamed: here to seize these priyemchik, to meet in the dark lane a company of hooligans yes to polish them "five-copeck coins" … I consulted to mother. Also I decided! When came to the first training, slightly was I didn't win back back — on a tatami transitory bodies of rivals after throws yes cuttings painfully loudly fell. I thought, after each such flight all interiors — soft-boiled. But in a week already itself with pleasure I threw competitors on a tatami. And it was involved …

— Then you moved to Kursk. Why?

— In a class the seventh on one of tournaments I was noticed by the Kursk trainer, in Kursk — one of the strongest in Russia judo and sambo school. I promised that I will become a champion. I studied and lived in boarding school No. 1, seriously I was engaged in judo and sambo. Progress came.

— It wasn't terrible to leave in 13 years a native nest, mother with the father, the sister, school, girlfriends, the yard? One, in the unfamiliar city … Tears at night in a pillow … Loneliness … Nostalgia …

— Any tears! I since the early childhood was independent. And then I am the contact girl, sociable. I am able and love to be on friendly terms. Easily I meet even with strangers.

— Great success doesn't happen without failures …

— Just about … Injuries began. The meniscus, operations, bandagings departed … I decided to give up judo. I arrived on affairs to the State Committee on Physical Training and Sports and on the happiness I met on a ladder of the familiar trainer. I complained to it of "sores". The trainer suggested to be engaged in a type of oriental martial arts new to Russia — Japanese wrestling of sumo. I agreed.

— Sumo … Olesya, not boringly? I, of course, the layman, but one business — judo and sambo, where the mass of receptions and combinations, and here … On the contrary two large men are two of a kind and try to push out each other for a circle …

— (Slightly with insult. ) In volume and trouble that those who didn't like beauty and philosophy of this type of wrestling often argue on sumo. Sumo more than 2000! Unless the tradition can remain, it don't make it strong philosophical sense? Any national tradition isn't viable, if it out of love national. In sumo of 89 initial receptions, more than three hundred combinations. Without the included head not to win sumo. It is necessary to be able to estimate a situation instantly.

The arena for wrestling of sumoist with exotic, short, as a last breath of the Samurai, the name — a fur-coat. It is the circle with a diameter a little more than four and a half meters which has been laid out by clay, powdered with the sand crumb, bordered with the straw, ritually watered with Japanese vodka to Saca … Never! And in Russia from sumo are familiar for a long time, only with other its version — the Tuva wrestling on belts, for example, or the Tatar wrestling куреш are very similar to sumo.

— Convinced, Olesya! When you understood, what sumo — it seriously and for a long time?

— In 1998 I won "bronze" in the World Cup in Germany, having lost only to the sumoist strongest at that time to Veronika Kozlovskaya from Belarus. It was "bronze" with gold outflow. After that any more I didn't lose!

— Remember the brightest episode in the sports biography.

— There is a lot of such episodes. It was remembered as before one prestigious tournament in Japan to me I tied a special belt — mavasi — the defending champion of the world. And in Japanese I told something. To me translated: the champion wished me good luck and told that believes in me. Already then I learned that unit receive such honor.

— Olesya, I will set to you a little "purely female" questions. It is possible?

— Long ago I wait for them from you, Sergey. And that all sports yes sports …

— I improve. On the arena and in life you — two different women?

— Woman one. (Laughs. ) But at any medal two parties. On a fur-coat or a tatami I have to be collected in a fist, the strong-willed, purposeful, not forgiving competitor of mistakes. Otherwise she won't forgive me mine. And in life I soft and fluffy. (Laughs. ) I like to sit in cafe. I like to sing under a karaoke from Antonov, Pugacheva, Talkov, Sarukhanov's repertoire, "Time machine" … And even Michael Jackson and "ABBA". With pleasure I revise the Soviet comedies "Operation "Y" …", "Caucasian Captive", "Ivan Vasilyevich Changes a Profession", "Diamond Hand" … And I like to watch fairy tales, for example to "Barbarian beauty". I love grandmother's pelmeni …

— On shops abroad you run?

— And that! I adore decorative cosmetics. I love well-groomed nails. Jewelry … I am the ordinary woman! Even the strongest woman wants to be weak, you unless didn't know?

— Now I know. And you have a favourite dress?

— And here I don't wear a dress. My casual clothes — jeans,  T-shirts … In a word, sports style. Is, of course, in clothes and clothes for business meetings, for buffet receptions … But dresses in it aren't present.

— What has to be the man that near him you, Olesya, seemed weak?

— (I reflected. ) He has to be a Man from capital letter. Superfluous it isn't necessary.

— With coming Christmas, Olesya! You remarkable woman!

— Thanks, Sergey!

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KOVALENKO Olesya

Honoured Master of Sports.Was born in Ufa (Bashkiria). Growth — 180 cm, weight — 110 kg.16-fold champion of Europe and the eightfold world champion in sumo wrestling. Double world champion in judo. World champion and double champion of Europe in sambo. Graduated from Kursk branch of the Oryol legal institute.

Sergey RYKOV talked

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