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It is not a quote from some American mountain, but the thoughts of a 16-year-old Ukrainian girl Oksana Bayul, who will become the main sensation of the Olympic figure skating in the Norwegian Lillegammer every day, February 25, 1994.
The same tournament that was chained by the views of fans from all over the world because of the confrontation of American Tony Garding and Nancy Kerrigan. The same confrontation that the movie was shot in Hollywood “I, Tonya“From Margo Robbie in the lead role, and for which Ellison Jenny received” Oscar “, gorgeous playing the mother-dictator of Lavon Faye Golden.
Oksana from a country, whose name in the world, was not particularly made without mistakes, then did not pay attention to the little girl. Despite the fact that she was the current world champion.
She was not mentioned at the opening of the Olympiad – the cause is banal. Lillegammer had a terrible frost, and the Ukrainian national team did not even have enough pearls and warm pants on everyone, and coach Galina Zmievskaya simply did not let little Oksana into the stadium, so that she would not cold.
At the start of the tournament Bayul demonstrates one of the best short programs in the history of the Olympic figure skating – “Black swan” Tchaikovsky’s music.
Black Swan Oksana Bayul, Brief Olympic Games Program 1994 in Lillegammer
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The first part was distinguished by a sophisticated combination of spirals, but instead the second turned out to be surprisingly artistic and very emotional. Galina Zmiyevskaya even had to urge Oksana from the side of Oksana. As a result, after the short program, Bayul became the second.
The trainers continued to protect the girl as they could, but the day before the performance in an arbitrary program and they did not save from the fatal clash with the Ukrainian German (irony, right?) Tanya Shevchenko.
“We both mirror went to Lutz (this jump will come from the squeeze back. – Champion). She instinctively pushed me with her hand into my chest and threw my skates forward, hit me on my right foot,” Said Bayul.
The collision ended in terrible bleeding, which could not stop for several hours, and three seams on the leg. The trainers were convinced that it was a cross on hope. But Oksana came to them the next morning and said she would perform.
She was pumped by painkillers and she was waiting in turn. It was necessary to speak after Nancy Kerrigan, who went first after a short program. The same favorite of America who had a conflict with tone Garding.
The arbitrary program, the American, also rolled almost without mistakes, and the stands were confident in her triumph. For Nancy – all of America and powerful sponsors, on it – a chic model dress.
The exit of the ice on the ice was delayed – on the skating rink could not gather a mountain of toys for Nancy from fans.
One God knows what little Oksana thought, who was barely raising money for a dress for performance, and in the preparation of money was helped by another well -known Ukrainian figure skater – Viktor Petrenko.
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The help of little Oksana was really needed.
She was born in Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro) in 1977. When she was two years old, her parents divorced. The girl was brought up by her grandfather and grandmother on her mother’s line, as her mother almost paid attention to the baby.
Oksana for the first time was on skates at four years, but the coaches stated that she should not be rolled, because he was “heavy”.
Oksana Bayul
But even then, the real fighting character of the girl, which she will need in her life more than once, manifested itself.
In a few years, she had already skilled in an adult group and prevailed everyone on the ice of the Meteor Palace.
However, the fate was ruthless – when she was 13 years old, a mom dies from cancer, and a month later – Grandmother. Oksana remains a round orphan. He spends the night in the room on the same ride until her coach Stanislav Koric has emigrated to Canada.
But life still gives a chance – it is noticed by Galina Zmiyevskaya, who takes the girl to train in Odessa and sends to her home, where Oksana shares a room with the daughter of the coach. Sports results go up.
And in 1991, the USSR collapses, and a girl who, for “Soviets,” would hardly make it through hundreds of Russians into the national team, becomes a primary national team of Ukraine at 14 years.
*****
In an arbitrary program in the Olympic Lillegammer Bayul made five complex jumps. However, this was not enough to get around Nancy Kerrigan. During the program, Oksana tried to execute the cascade, but unsuccessfully left the first jump and no longer went to the second.
Literally 20 seconds before the end of the rental, Galina Zmiyevskaya shouted from the board that you still need a cascade, and Bayul, no seconds, changes the limb – jumps the broken double axel + double trunk, exhales and at the boundary of the nervous breakdown goes to the trainers.
Oksana Bayul enters the cascade during an arbitrary program in Lillegammer
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Four of nine on the side of Kerrigan, four – for Bayul.
According to another irony, the German arbiter (Yeah, again the Germans) has to decide the fate of victory. And he gives Ukrainians only one tenth score more than artistry.
Oksana’s gold medal – the first for an independent Ukraine.
***
The award ceremony was delayed – 45 minutes were looking for the anthem of Ukraine. The organizers of Igor clearly did not count on the victory of Bayul, so they offered as an “alternative” of the anthem of the USSR of the USSR or in general Russia. The Ukrainian delegation, of course, did not agree.
In the end, the anthem was brought from the hotel room of Zmiyevskaya, because even under Olympic our refused to receive a medal.
Already on the podium, the organizers are missing again, turning the flag yellow up. But Oksana no longer responds – he just cries from the joy of the anthem of Ukraine, which for the first time he came at the Olympics.
From left to right – Nancy Kerrigan, Oksana Bayul, Lu Cen on a podium of a single tournament in figure skating among women
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Subsequently, she remembered her feelings after rental:
“The music is over, I exhaled and say:
“… Your mother, thank you, Lord, that everything is over.”
***
In fact, in the life of a little Ukrainian, everything has just begun. Then there will be moving to America, millions of advertising contracts, the burden of glory, which has not obeyed it, which resulted in alcoholism, severe divorce, abandonment of Ukrainian citizenship, lawsuits to the state of Ukraine and support of its homeland at the time of Russia’s invasion.
But it is another story. What about now. Because today you want about good emotions. And that performance was just like that.
”, – WRITE: Champion.com.ua
It’s not a quote with as Oksana Bayul’s 16-year-old Ukrainian girl’s thoughts, which every day, February 25, 1994, will be the main sensation of the Olympic Figur Riding Tournament in the Norwegian Lillers.
The same tournament that was chained by the views of fans from all over the world because of the confrontation of American Tony Garding and Nancy Kerrigan. The same confrontation that the movie was shot in Hollywood “I, Tonya“From Margo Robbie in the lead role, and for which Ellison Jenny received” Oscar “, gorgeous playing the mother-dictator of Lavon Faye Golden.
Oksana from a country, whose name in the world, was not particularly made without mistakes, then did not pay attention to the little girl. Despite the fact that she was the current world champion.
She was not mentioned at the opening of the Olympiad – the cause is banal. Lillegammer had a terrible frost, and the Ukrainian national team did not even have enough pearls and warm pants on everyone, and coach Galina Zmievskaya simply did not let little Oksana into the stadium, so that she would not cold.
At the start of the tournament Bayul demonstrates one of the best short programs in the history of the Olympic figure skating – “Black swan” Tchaikovsky’s music.
Black Swan Oksana Bayul, Brief Olympic Games Program 1994 in Lillegammer
Getty Images
The first part was distinguished by a sophisticated combination of spirals, but instead the second turned out to be surprisingly artistic and very emotional. Galina Zmiyevskaya even had to urge Oksana from the side of Oksana. As a result, after the short program, Bayul became the second.
The trainers continued to protect the girl as they could, but the day before the performance in an arbitrary program and they did not save from the fatal clash with the Ukrainian German (irony, right?) Tanya Shevchenko.
“We both mirror went to Lutz (this jump will come from the squeeze back. – Champion). She instinctively pushed me with her hand into my chest and threw my skates forward, hit me on my right foot,” Said Bayul.
The collision ended in terrible bleeding, which could not stop for several hours, and three seams on the leg. The trainers were convinced that it was a cross on hope. But Oksana came to them the next morning and said she would perform.
She was pumped by painkillers and she was waiting in turn. It was necessary to speak after Nancy Kerrigan, who went first after a short program. The same favorite of America who had a conflict with tone Garding.
The arbitrary program, the American, also rolled almost without mistakes, and the stands were confident in her triumph. For Nancy – all of America and powerful sponsors, on it – a chic model dress.
The exit of the ice on the ice was delayed – on the skating rink could not gather a mountain of toys for Nancy from fans.
One God knows what little Oksana thought, who was barely raising money for a dress for performance, and in the preparation of money was helped by another well -known Ukrainian figure skater – Viktor Petrenko.
***
The help of little Oksana was really needed.
She was born in Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro) in 1977. When she was two years old, her parents divorced. The girl was brought up by her grandfather and grandmother on her mother’s line, as her mother almost paid attention to the baby.
Oksana for the first time was on skates at four years, but the coaches stated that she should not be rolled, because he was “heavy”.
Oksana Bayul
But even then, the real fighting character of the girl, which she will need in her life more than once, manifested itself.
In a few years, she had already skilled in an adult group and prevailed everyone on the ice of the Meteor Palace.
However, the fate was ruthless – when she was 13 years old, a mom dies from cancer, and a month later – Grandmother. Oksana remains a round orphan. He spends the night in the room on the same ride until her coach Stanislav Koric has emigrated to Canada.
But life still gives a chance – it is noticed by Galina Zmiyevskaya, who takes the girl to train in Odessa and sends to her home, where Oksana shares a room with the daughter of the coach. Sports results go up.
And in 1991, the USSR collapses, and a girl who, for “Soviets,” would hardly make it through hundreds of Russians into the national team, becomes a primary national team of Ukraine at 14 years.
*****
In an arbitrary program in the Olympic Lillegammer Bayul made five complex jumps. However, this was not enough to get around Nancy Kerrigan. During the program, Oksana tried to execute the cascade, but unsuccessfully left the first jump and no longer went to the second.
Literally 20 seconds before the end of the rental, Galina Zmiyevskaya shouted from the board that you still need a cascade, and Bayul, no seconds, changes the limb – jumps the broken double axel + double trunk, exhales and at the boundary of the nervous breakdown goes to the trainers.
Oksana Bayul enters the cascade during an arbitrary program in Lillegammer
Getty Images
Four of nine on the side of Kerrigan, four – for Bayul.
According to another irony, the German arbiter (Yeah, again the Germans) has to decide the fate of victory. And he gives Ukrainians only one tenth score more than artistry.
Oksana’s gold medal – the first for an independent Ukraine.
***
The award ceremony was delayed – 45 minutes were looking for the anthem of Ukraine. The organizers of Igor clearly did not count on the victory of Bayul, so they offered as an “alternative” of the anthem of the USSR of the USSR or in general Russia. The Ukrainian delegation, of course, did not agree.
In the end, the anthem was brought from the hotel room of Zmiyevskaya, because even under Olympic our refused to receive a medal.
Already on the podium, the organizers are missing again, turning the flag yellow up. But Oksana no longer responds – he just cries from the joy of the anthem of Ukraine, which for the first time he came at the Olympics.
From left to right – Nancy Kerrigan, Oksana Bayul, Lu Cen on a podium of a single tournament in figure skating among women
Getty Images
Subsequently, she remembered her feelings after rental:
“The music is over, I exhaled and say:
“… Your mother, thank you, Lord, that everything is over.”
***
In fact, in the life of a little Ukrainian, everything has just begun. Then there will be moving to America, millions of advertising contracts, the burden of glory, which has not obeyed it, which resulted in alcoholism, severe divorce, abandonment of Ukrainian citizenship, lawsuits to the state of Ukraine and support of its homeland at the time of Russia’s invasion.
But it is another story. What about now. Because today you want about good emotions. And that performance was just like that.