Biography Valery Borzov

And the sprint became one of the symbols of the fleeting century, and its bright representative - Valery Borzov gained fame from millions of people. It developed steadily and systematically. Biomechanics, sports medicine and technique, which we can not connect logically in our way, are applied by its biologist coach with amazing expediency. This is a runner with a pulsating thought.

” The West German professor was echoed by the ex-director of the world in height, winner of the two Olympiads, American Dwight Stones: "Borzov is a professor of the squint, running a computer, he approaches the run as a scientist." In the same spirit, a comment published in the authoritative French sports newspaper Ekip, which, in particular, wrote: “This is a victory of high intelligence.

Borzov reflects the run, he knows how to control the speed for 10 seconds that he is able to change his tactics several times during this time. He opened a new era in sprint. ” Before the appearance of Valery Borzov, the question of whether there is a tactic in running one hundred meters, no one had any. It was obvious to everyone that in the fleeting 10 seconds, while the struggle lasts at this distance, the runner cannot be rebuilt.

But Borzov could change the speed of running several times for 10 seconds. He was engaged in the system developed by his mentor, candidate of biological sciences Valentin Vasilievich Petrovsky. Valery sacredly believed in this system and under no circumstances changed it. And it doesn’t matter whether Borzov was in Kyiv, Moscow or New York, was a coach next to him or not, at a certain hour he necessarily went to training and conducted it according to the program.

Thinking about the secrets of his sports longevity, each time I recall the answer of the summer Borzov to the traditional question of journalists: “What line of human character do you consider the main thing? The strength of Borzov is the prudence of Borzov - this is the thoughtfulness of the smallest detail of each training and preparation for each competition, and pre -calculated tactical struggle options, and the willingness to show in the final the result that is enough for victory.

Yes, Borzov is a rationalist. And this is one of the secrets of his bright victories, a long and beautiful sports career. When Borzov received a relay wand, from the side it seemed that he had gained wings: so easily he left his rivals. But lightness was deceiving. After one of these relay races, where he miraculously pulled out the victory, he admitted: “This run burned everything in me, completely devastated.

But I did not regret the burned out in that relay. Such moments are single, unforgettable, they are for life: it is my greatest wealth that told me Borzov at a sad moment after the defeat at the European Championship in Prague. And now I want to talk about the most difficult period in his life, and not at all in order to belittle his old merits. Just for the athlete, a test of defeat, an injury to match the x -rays that shine through the person through.

Not broken by the failures of that fall in Prague stood windy cold weather. The audience who filled the Stragovsky stadium, where the championship was held, wrapped in warm coats and jackets, sympathized with the athletes who were to fight not only rivals, but also with bad weather. In such a cold, the matter rarely did without injuries. So it happened this time. However, when in the final of a hundred -meter in my eyes about twenty meters before the finish, from where Borzov usually began his famous finish tribe, he suddenly began to lag and lost, I did not think about the injury, deciding that Borzov was simply not in uniform.

A few minutes after the final, I found it under the stands of the stadium. He sat alone in the locker room, lowering his head. Noticing me, he smiled sadly: “Am I still interested in journalists?” We were silent for a while. And when he finally moved away from running, he opened the veil over what happened on the path. The leg was pampering for a long time, and here the weather is still cold.

Doctors left a tight bandage. But a few seconds after the start, the bandage suddenly burst. He still ran, but for the first time in many years he took the last, eighth place unusual for himself. Nobody expected this outcome. In the press, it was reported that during the championship he was injured. But to some she, however, seemed to be mythical. After all, judging by the television report from Prague, Borza fled, as always, beautifully, easy.

He did not limp and did not fall. Where does the injury come from? Huge loads led to the disease of Achilles tendons. Two weeks later, he lay down on the operating table. For two hours, the most difficult operation continued. Then Borzov had to learn not only to run, but also to walk. At the end of December the seventy -eighth year, he was already training with might and main.

If only not to jinx it! Soon, Borzov still hung Shipovki on a nail. And no one had the right to blame him for this, for he made as much as no one in the sprint as before. The athlete left the treadmill, but did not part with sports. Valery continued to “plow” on the new field of a public figure, and then a sports leader.For several years he was the secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Ukraine, and then - the Minister of Sports of his independent country, the president of the National Olympic Committee.

And now Valery Filippovich heads the Ukrainian athletics Federation and represents Ukraine in the International Olympic Committee. And in this race, as then in the Olympic Munich in the final of running and meters, Borza noticeably ahead of competitors.